In this interview, Dr. Umbehr provided an explanation of Direct Primary Care and spoke of how it is being used in his practice. DPC deals with costs by eliminating the middlemen – insurance companies and big pharma. The doctor shares how that can happen, and spoke of the need for patients to be proactive in encouraging their doctors to join the DPC movement.
(The interview begins at 16:50.)

An insightful discussion on Direct Primary Care, physician autonomy, and healthcare reform. The conversation explores how alternative care models can reduce administrative burden, strengthen the doctor–patient relationship, and address rising healthcare costs.

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.

In this episode of Doctors Making a Difference, Dr. Peter Crane sits down with Dr. Josh Umbehr — board-certified family physician and founder of Atlas MD — to unpack the Direct Primary Care (DPC) model.

Dr. Umbehr explains why insurance was never meant to cover routine primary care, how removing the middleman radically lowers costs, and why time — not technology — is the most powerful tool in medicine.

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.

Americans want to pay for what they’re getting in return. In 2025, lawmakers in Washington are attempting to apply this idea broadly with fair taxes and the fair use of taxpayer dollars.

Policymakers need to extend this same fairness to health care and can do so easily with a simple reform that could open up billions in health care savings: mandating the same price for the same treatment.

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.