What is Direct Primary Care?

Direct Primary Care Explained By: John Hsieh Published: June 13th, 2025 Why Traditional Healthcare Feels Broken For many people, seeing a doctor is harder than it should be. You call for an appointment and end up waiting days or even weeks just to be squeezed in. When you finally get to the office, you sit […]

Concierge Medicine: A Smarter, More Personal Approach to Care

Healthcare is changing—and for good reason. In a recent WXYZ Detroit interview, our founder and CEO, Dr. Blanchard, shared how concierge medicine is helping people break free from the traditional model of long wait times, rushed visits, and impersonal care. As one of the pioneers of concierge medicine services in the country, Dr. Blanchard has […]

10 Reasons to Have a Primary Care Doctor

I frequently get calls from my friends or family asking what they should do when they have a medical concern. They don’t know if they should go to the urgent care, emergency room or meet with a doctor virtually on the web. I always ask them the same question, who is your primary care doctor? […]

Life of a Primary Care Doctor

You can think of the primary care doctor as your trusted first point of contact when you have a medical concern. They are the leader of your healthcare team. Primary care doctors are experts in you. They specialize in integrating all the aspects of what you need to not just survive in life, but to […]

Healthcare Quality and Price

Most people believe that the price of care and the quality of care are roughly uniform in the marketplace. They believe if they have surgery at one hospital the price for the surgery will be roughly the same as the price for the same surgery at the hospital down the street. The truth is that […]

Advantages of Accessibility

In a previous video I talked about all the things that Millennials want form doctors such as convenient access, a relationship with their doctors, virtual options, high quality, and price transparency. The fact is we all want those things. Unfortunately, the current healthcare system is not built to give us what we want. Care is […]

Healthcare for Millennials | SALTA Direct Primary Care

How Millennials Are Reshaping Healthcare Millennials are driving revolutionary change in the healthcare industry because everything they want from the healthcare system is what everyone else wants too.   Who Are Millennials and Why Do They Matter in Healthcare? Millennials, defined as people born between 1981 and 1996, are now 27 to 42 years of […]

SALTA Stories: This one is personal!

We are happy to announce that we’ve partnered with Preventice Solutions and will now carry these devices in the office. No waiting, no extra appointment, and typically covered by health insurance.

The Economics of Healthcare

Our country has treated healthcare as an unlimited, inexpensive resource. We’ve paid little attention over the past 70 years to how much healthcare waste occurs and how much healthcare actually costs us. To make matters worse third-party payer systems such as Medicare and private insurance, largely hide the actual cost of care from the average […]