Primary care physicians can curb healthcare costs and improve patient outcomes via telemedicine and new payment models and purchasing options, witnesses told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Tuesday.

In a direct primary care model — what Joshua Umbehr, MD, of Atlas MD in Wichita, Kansas, characterized as a more affordable cousin of “concierge care” — patients pay a monthly fee based on age.

Millions of Americans continue to struggle under the rising costs and bureaucratic mess spawned by the Affordable Care Act better known as Obamacare with no end in sight. Despite Congress’s inaction on solving the escalating crisis, doctors across the country are calling for a better system: Direct Primary Care.

Josh Umbehr, a Kansas-based family physician and entrepreneur, is on a mission to bring down the price of health care, starting with prescription drugs.

So for years, he’s been regularly emailing the one person that he believes can make a difference.

And that’s Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

As health insurance premiums rise and the health care bill faces uncertainty, some Kansans are looking for other health care alternatives.

One, in particular, is called direct primary care. According to practicing physicians, it’s the “Netflix of medicine.”

Dr Josh Umbehr, M.D., spoke to a lunch gathering of the Wichita Pachyderm Club May 12, 2017, about Atlas MD, a direct primary care medical provider and its potential for meaningful health care reform.

Meet AtlasMD out of Wichita, KS, a direct primary care physician service (DPC). Run by doctors Josh Umbehr and Doug Nunamaker, AtlasMD is revolutionizing healthcare one transparent and affordable transaction at a time.

Dr. Josh Umbehr, the founder of Wichita-based AtlasMD, appeared as a guest on the Fox News program The Sean Hannity Show to discuss the Direct Care business and how it can be used to drive change within health care.

Sean Hannity offers up Atlas MD’s Direct Care model as a possible tool for fixing healthcare. Dr. Ben Carson agrees.

The Atlas DPC model is regarded as “perfect” in a recent US House Budget meeting with a topic of “Restoring the Trust for Families and Working-Age Americans.”