A Better Option for Healthcare

Most primary care practices are owned by large health systems (or giant corporations, like Amazon) and incentivized to keep you sick - coming back or visiting specialists as much as possible. It’s called fee-for-service and it’s the standard model in our country. Sad, but true.

Each provider in those practices has thousands(!!) of patients, causing outlandish delays in seeing your doctor. You probably won't be surprised that the average wait time for a primary care visit in Chicago is 29 days! 

When you do get in for a visit, it often starts late and ends abruptly. After filling out registration paperwork (again), paying a co-pay (why?), and sitting in the waiting room for an eternity, a hurried provider rushes through your visit while staring at their computer and, more often than not, simply sends you to a specialist. You likely won't hear from them again, regardless of whether your problem was resolved and you'll likely see someone different next time. This, all before the cryptic and expensive bill inevitably comes in the mail six weeks later - despite using your insurance.

Urgent cares can bridge part of the convenience issues. Still, these experiences require a commute, registration paperwork, an awkward waiting room, and a similarly rushed appointment with a provider who you don’t know if you can trust.

And you still end up with a bill for a few hundred dollars (with or without insurance).

Partner Medical, using a Direct Primary Care model, is the answer to all this. A monthly membership fee covers the cost of comprehensive primary and urgent care services. That’s it. No co-pays or surprise bills, no long waits or inconvenient trips to the clinic, and no rushed appointments with untrusted clinicians. All the time you need to get the care you deserve from someone you know and trust.

The best part - our sole incentive is to give you the best experience and keep you as healthy as possible, happily renewing your membership each year.

To make this work, we keep the number of patients we see limited to a small fraction of typical primary care practices and we don’t deal with any of the insurance red tape that delays care and drives up costs.

At Partner Medical, we’ve got your back on anything related to your health – urgent care issues and minor procedures, obvious concerns and health conundrums, and chronic care management and preventative medicine.

To top it off, we'll take care of you and your kids - at no extra cost. We know how burdensome it is when your child is sick and we're here for you. Instead of taking time off work for an urgent care visit or trekking to your pediatrician, you can message your provider at Partner Medical. We've got years of experience delivering pediatric care in emergency rooms and community clinics and we're happy to take care of your sick kiddo.

The idea is simple – giving patients direct access to their care team – but the ultimate outcome is astonishing. Affordable, convenient, high quality, and personalized care.