Employer — FAQ

For employers with less than 50 employees who don’t offer group health insurance for their employees, offering direct primary care membership is a high value benefit that may help attract and retain valuable employees. For a $50 enrollment fee and $50/month per employee, Uyemura Family Medicine will provide your employees with premium access to primary care, including their physician’s personal cell phone number.

If you already offer group health insurance for your employees, but were looking to offer your employees an additional benefit, for the equivalent of about a $0.30/hour raise, you can relieve the sting of deductibles and copays for your employee’s primary care needs.

For large businesses who self insure, adding membership to Uyemura Family Medicine may result in substantial savings. Direct primary care clinics have been documented to provide savings to large businesses in the form of discounted labs, fewer emergency room visits, and fewer sick days for employees who gain improved access to primary care.

Employers may choose to pay for all or a portion of employee enrollment fee and memberships. Employees are generally required to pay for their family members’ membership fees and other fees such as labs, but employers may choose to pay for some of these costs as well.

There is little controversy that employers can pay for employee direct primary care membership after taxes, however please consult your accountant as the rules for offering direct primary care through a pretax flexible spending account (FSA) or health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) are complex and open to interpretation.