How it all works
Our clinic is designed as a community, welcoming you and your children into our family from birth through adolescence. Just like family, we’re there for you 24/7, with same-day appointments, urgent care on the weekends, and house calls for newborns. Our patients help foster this thriving community and allow us to provide a superior level of care.
How much does it cost?
All of your direct medical care comes from insurance billing, so just like any other clinic, you'll have the same copay and same percentage for medical services that you would anywhere else. The only additional cost of being a member with us is all included in your annual member dues. We take no profit from these dues, they are for you, and go directly toward enabling us to offer you better quality and more personal service.
Annual Member Dues
Here is our fee schedule, paid once yearly. Because our patients help us stay efficient, the cost of membership remains quite low. We love this. Learn what you can do to help!
Starting with your youngest child, we select their rate based on their age (as of July 1st), then add each additional child, selecting their rates based on their ages. This is to allow for discounts as you add siblings and/or your kids get older:
Youngest child:
$210 per year if 6 years or older
$250 per year if less than 6 years old
Each additional child:
$130 per year if 6 years or older
$170 per year if less than 6 years old
Adopted or foster children: $40 off per adopted/foster child - thanks for caring for kids in need!
The average cost is about $14 per child per month. While that’s pretty small relative to the cost of healthcare, it can have some profound benefits. For one thing, at a time when so much of your premiums are diverted to cover our country’s skyrocketing medical costs, 100% of this goes toward the quality and comfort children will experience at our clinic. Its focus is on all the comfort measures outside of health insurance’s domain. Things like having a familiar team that’s easy to reach, direct access to your doctor, less time in the waiting room, nicer exam rooms, etc. It's a breath of fresh air to feel cared for like family, to know your doctor loves connecting with you instead of avoiding you, to not struggle for days just trying to reach a real person. Sometimes it's as simple as looking forward to your visit instead of checking another obligation off your list. Kids love coming here, and we love your visits!
What's so great about a small clinic? Lots of things. For one, think about just 1-2 providers seeing only 7-8 kids each instead of the hundreds that visit your typical clinics each day spreading germs. We actually have time to clean each toy between visits, and wipe down our exam tables. For another, imagine how fragmented your care gets at large clinics when you see a different doctor every time you go in for a visit. It's hard to remember a name when a doctor has two or three thousand patients, let alone anything about the child's history. Welcome to a clinic where you are family, where we celebrate and we cry with you. We're there with you from the birth of your child until they're all grown up, through every up and down, every achievement and every frightening moment. At your greatest time of need, to know exactly who will walk through that door is priceless.
Keeping costs low. Healthcare is expensive, and we can help! We are passionate about optimizing medical care, which often leads to fewer expensive tests and treatments, fewer ER visits, and fewer medical complications. Consider that the monthly copay for even one chronic medication can already be more than what it costs to sustain our clinic. Prevent one ER visit or hospitalization? Hundreds to thousands. It can add up. Of course we never avoid necessary, beneficial, or unavoidable interventions — we merely enjoy seeking every opportunity for prevention as well as identifying which interventions aren't helpful, and in doing so can avoid not only the harm of those interventions, but the cost, too.
Caring for our community. One of our core values is in the accessibility of affordable health care for our community. We provide care to many underprivileged families and those suffering financial hardship, which is uncommon for premium practices like ours. Your member dues also help support those who could otherwise not afford premium care, but they deserve it, too! So if you are blessed with a perfectly healthy child who never seems to need our services, know that your contribution to a better clinic also goes towards helping those who may need such services more than you. And if you ever do need us, we're there for you, too.
Are you in a position to help others? Please donate additional funds to help families in financial hardship who cannot afford to pay dues. You do not need to be a member to donate. The more help we get, the more families in hardship we can afford to care for!
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