Nightingale Direct Care

12/23/2025

Straight up! Thanks, .
physicians are moving the needle.

How do we “scale”? One relationship-based, price-transparent, happy docs and happy patients clinic at a time. And then we add physicians to our group as patients realize the and want to bring their friends and family aboard, or we help a colleague find resources like the to make their own leap to independent DPC practice. Ripple by ripple.
The tides are turning!! 🩺

12/03/2025

Our goal at Coastal Direct Primary Care is to provide affordable, accessible primary care for all patients, regardless of insurance status. Prospective patients sometimes ask how DPC can save money for Medicare patients. In addition to being accessible to our patients (same day phone calls, video calls, and texting, and same day/next day in-office visits for urgent matters), we help patients save money on lab testing, medications, and reduced ER/Urgent care visits.

Here is today's example:
Part of the workup for restless leg syndrome is to check iron stores: serum ferritin, iron, and total iron binding capacity [TIBC]. Medicare does not cover these tests for the diagnosis of Restless Leg Syndrome or for Leg Cramps. The patient would have to pay $160.65 for these labs if using Medicare. Our cash price in office for these same 3 tests .........

$6.51 cents!

09/05/2025

You know when a ship is sinking, at first it's slow and kind of hard to tell? But soon it starts going down faster and faster? The sinking of the US healthcare system is accelerating, and fleecing America faster and faster, trying to get every last penny they can get before the ship goes under. The system is completely non-sustainable. We must go around.

09/05/2025

You might want to look into using Direct Primary Care and a catastrophic coverage plan if your new insurance premiums are too high.
https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/expanding-access-health-insurance-consumers-gain-access-catastrophic-health-insurance-plans-2026?fbclid=IwdGRleAMnIdJjbGNrAycTQmV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMUdDSmpRWU9SYVpJQlJFRm8BHg9l8Tz1kbV5ZJbhDfSIm4CVg1Ac2e7SHOR6LJSKQNoCia-sbWnNM9N6Nnfm_aem_OwCpKZfKxS58KjeXPvSlwg

Overview

09/04/2025

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667036425000251

It's not all in your head! Pun intended.

Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) affects multiple systems, but comprehensive evaluations of a larger sample of hEDS patients are lacking. The…

08/08/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpn5g-v26K4

A new year-long study showed that in lean, metabolically healthy people, High ApoB levels and High LDL-C levels did not matter at all with regards to plaque ...

08/08/2025

https://www.jacc.org/doi/epdf/10.1016/j.jacadv.2025.101686

08/07/2025

https://www.marfantrust.org/articles/su

by Sydney Heighington, AKA Marfan SquidGrowing up with Marfan Syndrome is a real struggle. As you get older, your toes begin to curl, and your breastbone pushes out, trying to escape your chest. Suddenly, all the double-jointed party tricks you can do seem to be more than just a quirk. They are a si...

05/28/2025

The clinic internet is having issues and we can't use our EMR or portal. Just FYI. This means I can't see your messages or my schedule. The internet provider is working on the issue. Thank you.

04/14/2025

The internet and phones are down. Clarksville Connected is working hard to get back online. If you are a current patient, you can reach me by cell phone. It's on my voicemail. Thanks.

03/01/2025

For $15 a month, a family of 5 can have access to 97 percent of all generic medicines in the United States. Contact us today to begin enrolling your patients in DPCRX.

02/20/2025

Nightingale Direct Care is a membership-based direct primary care clinic, offering a holistic