The Employer Dilemma

Male doctor with a clipboard talking to a female patient in a headscarf in a medical office.

We call this problem the employer dilemma. The dilemma is that you have to provide a good healthcare benefit because that attracts and retains top talent in employees value their health care benefits even higher than their salary in many cases.

My Healthcare Journey

health check up with stethoscope

SALTA was born in 2000 and it was really a type of model of care that was a membership model where people paid a monthly membership fee for access to the care that we provide.

Finding Value in Healthcare

doctor consulting patients

We have a healthcare system that everyone needs but no one can afford. And how did we get here? Well, what is value in healthcare? Healthcare value is getting the very best quality, the very best experience of care, at the very lowest cost.

Healthcare Price Transparency

In today’s pain points of patients let’s talk healthcare costs. Recently John Hopkins hospital did a study on cost and physician ordering behavior. They posted costs for 61 lab tests at the time of physician ordering. What they found was the number of lab tests per patient went down by 9% when the lab price […]

Never fear…SALTA is here!

Healthcare Access“Why do people avoid accessing healthcare when they need it?” Fear of the costTime constraintsNo health insurance Many people do not understand there is an alternative to the traditional system and therefore avoid care altogether. When people discover SALTA Direct Primary Care they are pleased to see price transparency, no time constraints, and affordable low monthly fee equating to $3/day […]

Limit the Barriers of Healthcare

In this month’s pain points of patients let’s talk patient access. In several studies primary care is shown to be critical for improving health of a population and reducing health disparities. Some of the obstacles include limited office hours, no same day appointments available, and services not offered outside of work hours. At SALTA DPC […]

Are you still going to urgent care?

SALTA is a direct primary care practice, or DPC for short. In this month’s pain points of patients let’s discuss why people use urgent care instead of primary care. This has been studied for decades. 85% of emergency visits are for non-life threatening reasons. The main theme across all studies are relationships and ease of […]