What is Direct Primary Care? According to Dr. Jerome Aya-ay, a family-medicine physician with offices in Greenville, Spartanburg and Columbia, Direct Primary Care (DPC) is very simple: “It is a relationship between a patient and their physician.” For a flat, monthly fee (often called membership dues), patients receive preventative and diagnostic medical care. Unlike some
This week, Dr. Oran Smith interviews Dr. Jerome Aya-Ay on a re-emerging method of paying for Primary Care. It's easy and affordable and it's called Direct Primary Care.
The second part of our interview with Dr. Jerome Aya-ay, a Direct Primary Care physician in SC.
Palmetto Promise Institute met with Dr. Jerome Aya-ay in his Spartanburg office to talk with him about Direct Primary Care.
Two months into the new Administration, the fight over whether to repeal and replace Obamacare simultaneously or separately continues to rage on Capitol Hill.
This week we talked with Rep. Rep. Anne Thayer about a Direct Primary Care Bill that she sponsored in the House.
Direct Primary Care may not be for everyone in every case, but it is a useful tool in the Healthcare freedom toolbox.
As the battle for healthcare heats up, let's separate some fact from fiction about what it means for South Carolinians.
Executive Summary Given the focus on the disastrous launch of the Obamacare insurance Exchanges in 2013, many people don’t know that most of Obamacare’s coverage gains have come not through those Exchanges, but through a new expansion of Medicaid to able-bodied, working-age adults. Medicaid was originally intended to provide important safety net coverage to vulnerable
