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MEDCLUB BARTLESVILLE · One on One With a Professional

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  Well, you know, I'm great because I've got a great doctor. By
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  the way, transparency, Kerrie Williams is my doctor direct primary care. Tell
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  us about this particular model. This particular model is somewhat new in the United
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  States. It's a practice model where patients make direct contact contracts with physicians primary
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  care physicians to provide them services at mid Club. We have a monthly charge
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  depending on your age, and what that covers is my time my consultations care
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  for chronic diseases and things like physicals, but we do midchecks. Extra things
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  are extra labs, prescriptions, and we offer those at Midclub at a discounted
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  rate. Whi's really great. It's kind of like a one stop deal there.
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  And you're not finding yourself. You know it's your choice, but you're
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  not finding yourself, you know, going all over town to get things done.
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  You can get most everything you need done right there at med Club.
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  Artiles Well, yes, sir, and I genuinely doing them. You are
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  now the advantage, of course of being a member of a med club.
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  You got plenty of But let's take a look at it. You well,
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  first of all, through transparency, you know how much you're going to pay
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  every month. It's not changing. You know, you get unexpected bills.
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  Wait a minute, this is medical stuff and we're not getting unexpected bills.
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  No, and this is usually less expensive. The average patient save it over
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  twenty percent if they use versus traditional healthcare interns as far as they're overall cost
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  according to the statistics, and we cut out the middle man. There's not
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  an insurance company with their hands out. And the statistics show that if you
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  are a patient of a direct primary care practice, you have as a general
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  rule, there is a sixty five percent less chance that you will end up
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  in the emergency room on an emergency room visit. Well, that's great that
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  those are expensive. They are. It's a it's not a day at Disney
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  World and for sure, but it may cost as much. Oh my,
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  yes, yes, And what I like is the accessibility I have to the
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  doctor. Yes, we try to do same day or next day appointment.
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  Some people like to book out further, but we do that. And for
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  instance, if you've had an unexpected hospitalization and you need to be seen quickly
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  after you've been discharged from the hospital, we'll try to make room for you
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  to be seen. And a lot of times word The number one advantage is
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  is that you can explanations of what's happened. Because the medical field can be
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  very subservient. You don't know what's going on when you're in the hospital.
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  So having somebody to give you a play by play or they did this procedure
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  for that reason, and that's what that's providing That patient understanding gets it gets
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  rid of a lot of the fear, and fear is misery, and so
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  if we can help a patient get comfortable with their medical care or what's been
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  done and what to expect, then we've really done our job. One thing
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  I like is that the appointments are waiting in a waiting room for an hour,
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  can be seen for five minutes, that's correct. We try not to
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  make any one way, and we limit the size of the practice. When
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  I was in a traditional medical practice, I had over three thousand patients.
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  At med Club, we limit our patients just seven hundred, so I have
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  time to get to know you. And most of the appointments are at least
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  a half hour. And you know, some patients want that, some patients
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  don't. But the explanation going back, the accessibility is a huge thing.
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  Being accessible to a natural physician is huge. Well, you get more personalized
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  care, and for a lot of people that goes a long way because we're
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  used to kind of being shuffled around and you might only get to see your
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  doctor three to four minutes and tops, yes, and then it's in out
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  by sea. Here's your bill. Yes, And it's not that way there.
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  As a patient, I get to ask questions at you encourage that.
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  Yes, I encourage my patients to bring a list with them to the appointment
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  written please, because you're not going to remember them. That's exactly right.
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  And getting their questions answered again takes takes the guesswork out by the patient.
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  You can go and read the computer look it up, but getting through the
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  vocabulary is a lot of time, very confusing, and so many things mean
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  the same thing and understanding oh they did this that means sad and I have
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  to anticipate this coming at me. Yes, every patient is different, but
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  the disease process is kind of with most act similar. One thing I like
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  is that day you'll actually bring out a physical book if needed, absolutely show
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  the patient exactly what is going on and why so that we understand it.
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  And that's something that I've never witnessed is a patient in my entire life until
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  being a member of med Club article well, providing that patient explanation and understanding,
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  understanding how that doctor's thinking about you, Understanding this is where this particular
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  organ lives, and showing the patient a picture and saying when you talk to
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  the doctor, they're going to be talking left right at her post here,
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  and how that doctor determines what that means. Then the vocabulary is not so
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  bad. The way that doctor talks to you is not that confusing. But
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  bringing that knowledge level up. Also, if I send a patient to specialists,
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  I want them to understand what that specialist is going to be thinking about
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  and what to anticipate and how not give them any answers, but how to
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  answer the questions that have been asked by the specialist. Therefore, the communication
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  is automatically approved by tenfold Yes and my patient. We will be looked at
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  as a cooperative patient, someone they want to have back in their office,
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  and that makes doctors are no different than anyone else. If they like you,
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  they'll spend more time with you. Now, the met Club Bartlepill,
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  we talked about that. The monthly fee. It covers the primary care and
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  consultation. Now we did kind of mention labs and another thing, tell us
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  more about labs and other things. Okay, we offer lab basic labs through
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  our office bloodwork'uring other things, and we have discounted prices in comparison to
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  the national labs. We're not adding on what the insurance company would add or
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  what that middleman for processing is. You know what your lab bill's going to
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  be. And also with medications, I am in a buying group with other
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  direct primary care practices and we get discounted hotel medicines. Oh yes, you
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  do a lot of times it will cost you less to purchase it at med
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  club. It will be cost you what your insurance will cover. Very good.
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  This is all really pretty cool. Now when we take a look at
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  this for IRS purposes, and I know some people do, I know I
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  have to these days because the I R seems to like me, what is
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  there some kind of coding or something we have to kind of go through here
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  we talk about I think called a health plan, and health plan the IRS
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  does not allow individuals to detect the monthly costs from their taxes. That should
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  and that's basically the only intervention that the iris has in this Now when we
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  go through a costing payments from med Club, there's the monthly fee. And
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  also there's a lot of great things that come along with this, because like
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  you said, it's not like every time you visit it's a monthly feed.
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  You're going to visit as much as you need to visit. Correct So if
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  I need some screening, I can just come in with an appointment and we
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  get that taken care of. But like say I got an acre of pain
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  a week later, I can call up and say, hey, doc,
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  yes, and it's still one monthly fee. Yes, huh. That We
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  also text and we email my patients and I communicate a lot. Even though
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  you may not see me every month, there's a lot of communications that goes
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  on behind behind the scenes. Your labs are sent to you. I have
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  looked at them. I'll make comments on them. You will or X rays
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  or other tests. Patients have questions, you know, my medicine that I
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  started is doing this? Is this normal or is this not? And also
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  there's access, emergency access to me after hours and on the weekends, so
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  that's that cuts down on a lot of the er visits. It does,
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  yeah, absolutely does. We keep you well, We'll try. And I
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  put an immordant amount of time into your patients, figuring out where they're at,
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  what needs to be done, what they're what they've done, what they
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  haven't done, and get them caught up on their screenings, get to figure
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  out their medicines. And sometimes I've got patients that are on medicines that don't
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  agree together and adjust things and figure out more than anything, figure out what
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  that patient's goals are. Said, meet your patients where they are. I
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  know a fellow who hadn't been to a doctor for twenty years until he visited
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  you, and he raves about how fast you caught up and how fast everything
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  came into play simply because there was communication and propertusity and knowing we're a patient,
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  what their goals are, how they plan on living, what their goals
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  are. You know, everyone wants a healthy life, but that's not realistic.
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  In setting the realistic expectations. Also, it's a little known fact doctors
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  are not reimbursed for reading past medical records in the office, and there are
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  patients who come with hundreds of pages worth of past medical records, and that's
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  where doctors find their discrepancies. But they it takes hours to go through them.
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  And my theory on that if it's important enough to hit my office,
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  this is important enough for me to read and understand and see what's been done.
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  And a lot of the costs of a patient are cut down in that
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  step right there, because patients don't remember if they've had a test, but
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  those records will indicate yay or name that is correct and usually the result yes,
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  that is correct. And understanding that and being able to document that it's
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  a big deal. Also for traditional healthcare, Medicare and Medicaid, there's something
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  called medical necessity, which is a book nuisance. From time to time you
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  have to prove as a physician why that patient needs that test, and a
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  lot of times there's a lot of hoops to jump through. If I have
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  old medical records that I am familiar with, sometimes I can find medical necessity
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  in those. Now sometimes you're going to need health care insurance with the direct
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  primary care sometimes tell us about them. Sometimes we sometimes are on a catastrophic
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  event, things that you don't anticipate, surgeries, heart attacks, cancers.
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  These are devastating to patients in their financial wellbeing because it's easy to run up
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  tens of thousands of dollars worth of medical bills. Also, if you've got
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  cancer, some of those drugs are absorbitantly expensive, and so a high deductible
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  health care insurance plan is what we recommend to go with this because in direct
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  primary care, we can catch most of these many of the health care needs
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  ahead of time and possibly ward things off or catch them early before they are
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  a catastrophic event. Very good. How do we become a patient of doctor
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  carry Williams at that club Bartlesville. We have a website that will answer almost
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  every question you may have, although if you'd like to become a patient,
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  there's a place to sign up online. My electronic medical records were flagged me
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  and tell me to take a look at this and we will contact you.
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  Thanks for listening to one on one of the professional paid presentation in fourteen hundred K one