Health care prices continue to rise even as coverage expands. Three different approaches reveal what happens when transparency, competition, and patient control return to the system.
The video features multiple participants and includes commentary from Dr. Umbehr.

Dr. Josh Umbehr launched his Atlas MD electronic medical record software in 2013, with a goal of helping doctors and patients give and get better health care.

Now he’s introduced a new tool to help practices manage their finances.

On The Steve Gruber Show, Steve is joined by Dr. Josh Umbehr, M.D., a Family Medicine Specialist from Wichita, Kansas, to talk about the future of healthcare, and why Democrats are ignoring the primary care revolution. Dr. Umbehr explains how direct primary care is transforming the doctor-patient relationship, cutting out bloated insurance bureaucracy, and putting patients back in control of their own health. It’s a model that lowers costs, increases access, and restores trust, but Washington elites and the Left want nothing to do with it.

On this week’s episode, we conclude Dr. Josh Umbehr’s interview by sharing several useful resources to help you thrive with direct primary care. By eliminating the need for insurance billing, you can build a practice that serves patients well and eliminates the headaches associated with today’s corporate model of care. In Part 2, he outlines how his experience led to the creation of DPC-focused tools, including a custom EMR system and an insurance alternative.

In this week’s podcast episode, Dr. Josh Umbehr explains why physicians should switch to Direct Primary Care if their current practice leaves them unfulfilled.

He shares how simplifying healthcare by removing insurance, offering transparent pricing, and focusing purely on patient care can restore meaning to medicine and create a more sustainable, fulfilling way to practice.

In 2024, 63% of workers with employer-sponsored insurance in the United States were enrolled in self-insured plans, rising to 83% for employers with 1,000+ workers. In these plans, employers pay for the health care expenses incurred by their workers through third-party administrators (TPAs) in administrative services only contracts, rather than purchasing coverage directly from insurance companies.

The United States is facing a healthcare affordability crisis with inflation expected to drive costs up by 6.5 percent next year. While Americans worry about the rising costs of medical care, many of the underlying causes of higher prices are overlooked. Bad government policies, especially Medicare reimbursement policies, foster an environment of consolidation in the healthcare industry, leading to higher prices that hurt everyone. Medicare policies must be changed to bring down costs.

Last week on Here & Now, host Peter O’Dowd spoke to a primary care doctor about the new trend of membership care, a model that’s becoming more common across the country. Under this model, doctors ask patients to sign up for membership plans for direct primary care services.

The conversation sparked a debate online with members of the concierge medicine community. This is a follow-up conversation with Dr. Josh Umbehr, a direct care doctor at Atlas MD. He brings a different perspective on this model of care and tells O’Dowd why he believes this model is better for patients and how it avoids a doctor shortage.

After two years of lockdowns, panics, and gallons of hand sanitizer, we seem to be entering a post-COVID world. Governments are relaxing vaccine mandates and minimizing masks mandates, while markets are returning to normal. We’ve all learned more about the Greek alphabet then we did in high school. Bill Maher accurately assessed the pulse of the nation when he concluded, we’re “over COVID.”