Marina Capella

Starting a home visit practice is exciting. Here are 10 things that you should ask yourself before you start.

By Marina Capella, MD, MEd, FAAP, FABOIM One of the most impactful lessons I’ve taken away from my MBA marketing course is this: customers buy benefits, not features. It’s a simple concept, but it has profound implications for how we communicate the value of our direct primary care (DPC) pediatric practices. Too often, we lean

If you want to own a pediatric DPC home visit only practice, you need to learn three ways to manage patient expectations.

In this series of articles, we are looking at the math of home visits by doctors. Mastering your overhead is an important part of the equation.

By Marina Capella, MD, MEd If you’re reading this, you’ve likely already taken one of the bravest steps a pediatrician can take — stepping outside of traditional corporate medicine to pursue direct pediatric care. You’ve done the hard work of setting up your practice, learning how to market, navigating legal and financial systems, and figuring

Creating a practice that offers home visits by doctors requires careful contemplation. There are many unseen ways that patients require your time that you need to consider.

Direct primary care pediatricians enjoy the freedom and flexibility to care for patients in a way that suits their values and approach. Many choose to offer home visits—either as their primary service or as an additional option within an office-based practice. Whether your practice focuses entirely on home visits or includes them as a smaller

As a DPC Pediatrician, home visits are a great way to care for patients. These are supplies to get you started.

Starting a pediatric direct primary care practice is not easy. Here are three ways to get you through the tough early days.