With expected steep cuts to Medicaid, there’s a growing movement in Maine of primary care providers skipping insurance ...

With expected steep cuts to Medicaid, there’s a growing movement in Maine of primary care providers skipping insurance ...

With expected cuts to programs like Medicaid, a new clinic in Bangor is aiming to bring more affordable and accessible ...

Direct primary care (DPC) clinics provide basic health care services for a direct monthly fee, allowing patients to receive care without relying on standard health insurance or paying per visit. While ...

For adult and child primary care, patients pay $80 a month. The clinic has no enrollment fee, but it does require a minimum of two months, "so patients can see the value," Malkan said.

There are at least 27 direct primary care practices in Maine, including a few that are hybrid — insurance is billed in addition to the monthly fee, according to DPC Frontier, a website that maps ...

In recent years, a small but growing number of practices embraced a buffet approach to primary care, offering patients unlimited services for a modest flat fee instead of billing them a la carte for ...