A health system vice president told Dr. Kirsten Lin that physicians cannot be trusted to manage their own schedules. She and Dr. Natalie Gentile met at a DPC Summit, spent six months of weekends vaccinating independent clinicians and homebound patients, then launched Direct Care Physicians of Pittsburgh in January 2022, the first managed services organization built for Direct Primary Care.

Direct Primary Care Doctor Dr. Tyndall-Smith started her career in medicine in 2005 at York Hospital, in York, Pennsylvania, after...