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Employers & small business

Small employers usually want their team to be able to see someone quickly without adding another premium. These answers explain what membership primary care does and does not replace.

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What healthcare options does a small business actually have?

Group insurance, ICHRA, stipends and primary care memberships each solve a different problem. Here is what each one does, what it costs a small employer, and where they combine.

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How can we offer employees healthcare without buying group insurance?

If a group plan is out of budget, you still have real options. How primary care memberships, virtual access and stipends work — and what to tell employees honestly.

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Does better primary care access reduce employee absence?

Why appointment friction, not illness, drives much of avoidable absence — and how same-day virtual access and continuity change the pattern for a small team.

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How do we actually roll out a primary care benefit?

A step-by-step rollout for a small employer adding a primary care membership: choosing the tier, enrolling households, announcing it clearly, and driving real usage.

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Other answer categories

  • Virtual care & telehealth — What a virtual visit can and cannot do, when to use it instead of urgent care, and how a visit works start to finish.
  • Primary care & direct primary care — What membership medicine is, how it differs from insurance-based and concierge care, and what it actually costs.
  • Affordable & self-pay healthcare — Practical options for households without insurance, with a high deductible, or simply tired of unpredictable bills.
  • Family & pediatric virtual care — How household virtual care works, what a child's virtual visit can cover, and where the age boundaries sit.
  • Prescriptions & refills — How a refill evaluation works virtually, what may be prescribed, and what will never be prescribed online.
  • Labs, imaging & testing — How testing is ordered from a virtual visit, where you go for the draw or scan, and how results are reviewed.
  • DFW local care — What care costs locally without insurance, how to be seen without coverage, and where local in-office visits happen.
  • Self-employed, 1099 & gig workers — Healthcare options when nobody provides a benefit for you, and how membership care fits alongside coverage.
  • Older adults & caregivers — Choosing primary care for yourself or an aging parent, why continuity matters, and how medication review works.
  • Symptoms & conditions — What a virtual visit can realistically assess for everyday problems — and the findings that need hands-on care instead.
  • Medications & prescribing — What may be prescribed after a virtual assessment, what needs monitoring first, and what is never prescribed online here.
  • Healthcare costs & price transparency — What Presence care costs, how membership maths actually works, and how to ask any practice for a price before you agree to it.
  • Urgent vs primary vs virtual care — Which setting fits which problem, what each one can do, and how to avoid paying for the wrong kind of visit.
  • Preventive care & ongoing management — How prevention and long-term condition management work when your primary care is virtual-first.
  • Women's health — Preventive care, screening, menopause, recurrent urinary infections and the tests that come up most — inside verified scope.
  • Men's health — Preventive care, the three numbers that matter most, and the concerns men most often leave unsaid.

About this information

Written by the Presence care team for patients considering care with us. Presence care is delivered by licensed providers, including a board-certified Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner — not by a physician, and not by software. Meet your provider.

This page explains how our service works. It is general information, not a diagnosis, and it is not a substitute for an evaluation of your own situation. Whether testing, treatment or a prescription is appropriate is decided during a visit.

If this is an emergency — chest pain, trouble breathing, stroke symptoms, severe bleeding, or thoughts of harming yourself — call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department. See our emergency care notice.

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Still deciding?

Call and we will tell you honestly which option fits your household — including when the answer is none of ours.

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