by Sara Cheesewright | Mar 28, 2024 | Direct Specialty Care, Extremities, Procedure
Direct specialty care for surgical services is when patients pay physicians directly for their services, bypassing insurance companies and other third-party payers. A key proponent of direct pay for providers and patients is that it allows for more transparency in...
by Sara Cheesewright | Jan 29, 2024 | Direct Specialty Care
Direct-pay specialty care with Smith Medical is a healthcare model focusing on a direct patient-to-doctor relationship and a self-pay pricing format. The biggest problems facing the healthcare industry today are two things: high costs of care and a lack of insurance...
by Sara Cheesewright | Jan 12, 2024 | Direct Specialty Care, Procedure
What is a One-Level Lumbar Fusion? For those who are looking for a better approach than conservative treatment to their degenerative spine condition, consider a one-level lumbar fusion surgery. During this procedure, two vertebrae in the lumbar spine are fused. ...
by Sara Cheesewright | Jan 10, 2024 | Direct Specialty Care, Procedure
What Is Microdiscectomy? For patients looking for a solution to herniated disc pain, a microdiscectomy with Smith Medical direct pay specialty care may be the solution. If conservative treatment or pain management fails to provide relief, surgery may be necessary to...
by Sara Cheesewright | Jan 1, 2024 | Direct Specialty Care, Procedure
What is Direct Specialty Care? Like any other goods or services that consumers invest in, spinal surgery is no different. Looking for spine surgery isn’t a small price point, nor is it an easy decision to make. Patients unsure of where to begin might find it...
