Primary Care Medical Procedures
Hi, thank you for coming back for the latest edition of Beyond Primary Care’s blog- primary care medical procedures. In Beyond Primary Care blogs we highlight healthcare news, advice for medical conditions, and how membership for care works! Beyond Primary Care is an insurance free, membership based family medicine clinic. Beyond Primary Care is the highest rated Direct Primary Care clinic serving patients in Ann Arbor and throughout Washtenaw, Livingston, and Wayne counties giving families and employers peace of mind about healthcare costs by providing affordable and accessible primary care services.
In this blog post, we want to educate our patients and any prospective patients about us and primary care medical procedures we perform.
Primary Care
Many people think of primary care as routine, day-to-day healthcare from their physician as being a first stop for their medical needs. Primary care includes wellness visits, sick visits, annual vaccines, sports physicals, blood work for insulin and cholesterol, and medication refills. Primary care is critical towards prevention and early detection for many illnesses, and can usually take care of approximately 90% of your medical needs- including procedures.
Primary Care physicians- including family medicine and internal medicine, are trained to perform a wide variety of procedures. We typically offer these procedures in our office, many being completed at the time of your initial visit with the concern. This helps make our patients healthcare affordable by saving them time and money instead of going to a specialist.
Common Primary Care In-Office Medical Procedures
Below are a list of procedures that can be performed by your Family Doctor. At Beyond Primary Care, we perform all of these and more.
Abscess lance and drainage
Cyst drainage and removal
Wound repair (suturing up cuts)
Skin biopsies for moles including shave biopsies, punch biopsies, and excision biopsies
Joint Aspirations (eg: elbow, knee)
Steroid injections for shoulder
Steroid injections for hips
Steroid injections for knee
Steroid injections for plantar fascia
Steroid injections for elbow
Electrocardiogram (EKG)
IUD (intrauterine device) insertion and removal
Nexplanon (bar in the arm) insertion and removal
Wart removal
Foreign body removal (eg- splinter)
Ear Wax Removal
Affordable Healthcare, Affordable Procedures
At Beyond Primary Care, we use a direct primary care model to provide our patients with healthcare. Meaning, we work directly for our patients and do not bill insurance for our medical services. Our membership plan offsets the costs of many procedures which allows us to pass the cost savings onto our patients.
A typical doctor’s office will charge the insurance company for the cost of the procedure, which ultimately is passed down to you- the patient- if you have deductibles to meet. As example, the typical charge for a steroid injection in the shoulder may be $100-$150. A skin biopsy of a mole may range from $120-$300. For these procedures, Beyond Primary Care typically charges $20-25, or about the cost of the supplies that we use to perform the procedure.
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Dr. Jeff O’Boyle with Beyond Primary Care
