How to Launch a Telehealth Direct Primary Care Practice While Still Working in the ER: What Dr. Christina Long Learned in Year One - Part 1

DPC Life: Direct Primary Care Podcast · Oct 13, 2026 · 24m

What does it actually cost to start a telehealth practice, and what do the Facebook groups forget to tell you? Dr. Christina Long is an emergency medicine physician in Utah who opened The Bougie Bee in January after years of academic medicine in Chicago and a side gig with a telemedicine company that paid her $5 or $6 per patient. She calls that old setup an online pill mill, and she built her own practice to get away from it.

She is licensed in 25 states, runs the whole practice herself out of a home office with a pink mini fridge, and hit her first-year goal of 30 patients within months…