Echelon Healthcare offers Direct Primary Care and acts as your Lifestyle Management Consultant and healthcare system navigator.

1. Direct Primary Care is a product that gives you access to medical advice from a doctor when you need it, usually on the same day or the next day from when you request an “appointment.” In fact, with Echelon Healthcare, you can text, call, or even video chat with your doctor at any time with a private secured phone app.

Concierge medicine is a much more expensive product. Echelon Healthcare is an affordable alternative to concierge medicine and a great way to access medical care compared with the insurance-based industry, which seeks to disincentivize interactions with your doctor.

You will still need health insurance. Echelon Healthcare is not an insurance plan.  You will need insurance for hospitalizations, specialty care, surgery, etc.  Your monthly fee gives you access to primary care and advice from your Echelon Healthcare provider.  If you do not have insurance, you can still access Echelon Healthcare for your primary care needs.

In the end, you will find that the subscription has excellent value in instances where you can access care when you usually would not (due to the roadblocks placed by the insurance industry) and can avoid visits to the emergency room or urgent care. You will find that a year of Echelon Healthcare is about what you pay for one month of insurance.