TY  - GEN
AB  - Rising numbers of uninsured Americans highlight the gap between health insurance and actual access to care. This project evaluated the financial feasibility and patient acceptability of a direct primary care (DPC) model in a nurse practitioner-owned practice. Under DPC, patients pay a flat monthly fee for agreed-upon services, eliminating third-party billing. Unlike insurance, this model emphasizes direct care delivery. Findings suggest DPC may offer an innovative solution to improve access and continuity of care for uninsured populations, challenging the entrenched conflation of health insurance with health care in U.S. policy and culture.
AD  - Oregon Health and Science University
AU  - Bunker, Teri
DA  - 2012
DO  - 10.6083/M4FQ9TMH
DO  - DOI
ED  - Messecar, Deborah
ED  - Chair
ID  - 868
KW  - Evidence-Based Nursing
KW  - Nurse Practitioners
KW  - Research
KW  - Clinical Nursing Research
KW  - Nursing
KW  - Primary Care Nursing
KW  - Nurse Anesthetists
KW  - Advanced Practice Nursing
KW  - Nurse Midwives
KW  - Primary Health Care
L1  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/868/files/871_etd.pdf
L2  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/868/files/871_etd.pdf
L4  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/868/files/871_etd.pdf
LK  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/868/files/871_etd.pdf
N2  - Rising numbers of uninsured Americans highlight the gap between health insurance and actual access to care. This project evaluated the financial feasibility and patient acceptability of a direct primary care (DPC) model in a nurse practitioner-owned practice. Under DPC, patients pay a flat monthly fee for agreed-upon services, eliminating third-party billing. Unlike insurance, this model emphasizes direct care delivery. Findings suggest DPC may offer an innovative solution to improve access and continuity of care for uninsured populations, challenging the entrenched conflation of health insurance with health care in U.S. policy and culture.
PB  - Oregon Health and Science University
PY  - 2012
T1  - Direct primary care: a descriptive evaluation of a new care delivery model
TI  - Direct primary care: a descriptive evaluation of a new care delivery model
UR  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/868/files/871_etd.pdf
Y1  - 2012
ER  -