Direct Primary Care (DPC) is an innovative alternative payment model improving access to high functioning healthcare with a simple, flat, affordable membership fee. No fee-for-service payments. No third-party billing. The defining element of DPC is an enduring and trusting relationship between the patient and their primary care provider. Patients have extraordinary access to a physician of their choice and physicians are accountable first and foremost for their patients. DPC is embraced by healthy policy makers on the left and right and creates happy patients and providers all over the country.