Direct Primary Care

for Employers
What is Direct Primary Care (DPC)?

DPC: contracting directly with a primary care provider to provide primary

care for a per member per month fee.

Ark Family Health: The first and largest DPC in the Phoenix area.
The Opportunities (The money we’re wasting.)

Health-Related
Productivity Loss
Healthcare
$2,409 System Waste
Per Employee Per
Year

The Cost of
$2,355
Per Employee Per Preventable
Turnover Year
Disease
$3,846
Per Employee Per
Year
5,182
Per Employee Per
Year
 The Cost of Turnover

Every time you replace a salaried employee

it costs 6-9 months salary on average.
-SHRM

The Cost of
Turnover
$3,846
Per Employee Per
Year
 Health Related Productivity Loss
Absenteeism: Presenteeism:
- missing work for health reasons. - at work but not fully functioning
because of health reasons.
Absenteeism costs employers
$1,685 per employee per year on Presenteeism costs employers $961
average. per employee per year on average.
-CDC -Harvard Business Review

Health-Related A shocking 77% of lost productivity

Productivity Loss in the US is due to presenteeism.
-Forbes
$2,409
Per Employee Per
Year
The Cost of Healthcare System Waste

Healthcare
System Waste

$2,355
Per Employee Per
Year
The Cost of Treating Preventable Disease

75% of our healthcare dollars are spent on chronic illness and 80% of
chronic illness is preventable.

-CDC, WHO

Preventable
Disease

$5,182
Per Employee Per
Year
How Does DPC Recapture These Losses?
DPC Reduces Turnover Costs

Role of Benefits in Turnover

More than 60% of employees would take a job with a lower salary for better benefits -
Zenefits

$3,846
Per Employee Per
Year
DPC Reduces Turnover Costs

Role of Employee Perception in Turnover

55% of workers who feel their employer cares about their well-being want to stay at their
company for 10 years or more vs. 33% who don’t believe their company cares. -Guardian

$3,846
Per Employee Per
Year
DPC Reduces Turnover Costs

Measured effect of DPC

Employer groups with average net promoter scores near 30% who added DPC to their
benefits package increased their NPS to 70-71% (50 is excellent). -Arvada and Fortune
500 study

80% reported their opinion of their company improved after adding DPC. - Arvada and
Fortune 500

$3,846
Per Employee Per
Year
DPC Reduces Productivity Loss

Health Related Productivity:

79-80% of employees reported improved health after DPC was added.

-Fortune 500, Arvada

City of Arvada employees saved 1,138 hours in a year after DPC was
added. -Arvada
Health-Related
Productivity Loss

$2,409
Per Employee Per
Year
DPC Reduces Healthcare Spending

Overall Healthcare Spending:

Reduction in overall medical costs: 54% -Arvada (38%Union County)

Healthcare
System Waste

$2,355
Per Employee Per Preventable
Year
Disease

5,182
Per Employee Per
Year
DPC Reduces Healthcare Spending

59% reduction in ER visits -QLiance

62% decrease in specialty referrals -QLiance

Healthcare
System Waste
65% decrease in radiology exams -QLiance
$2,355
80% fewer surgeries -QLiance Per Employee Per Preventable
Year
Disease
11% reduction in pharmacy costs -Fortune 500 5,182
Per Employee Per
Year
37% reduction of prescription -Union County