Forest Direct Primary Care

Forest Direct Primary Care charges a one-time registration fee of $87 per person, with a family maximum of $174. Members then pay a monthly membership fee based on their age and plan. The registration fee covers enrollment; the monthly fee provides access to the practice's full range of services. Specific monthly pricing requires contacting the practice directly.

Your membership gives you access to same-day and next-day acute visits, telehealth by text, email, phone, or video, preventive care, chronic disease management, a wide range of in-office procedures, ECGs, spirometry, headache and joint injections, blood draws, and wholesale laboratory services. The practice handles more than 90% of medical problems in-house.

No. Forest Direct Primary Care does not accept or bill insurance of any kind. Members pay a flat monthly fee directly to the practice. Patients with insurance, Medicare, or no insurance at all are welcome as members; the practice simply does not involve third-party payers in billing.

Forest Direct Primary Care passes wholesale laboratory pricing directly to members. This approach typically reduces lab costs by up to 90% compared to standard retail pricing. Members pay for labs at cost rather than at inflated insurance-billed rates.

Yes. Forest DPC offers telehealth via text, email, phone, and video-conferencing. The practice has offered these options since well before the COVID-19 pandemic made telehealth widely available elsewhere.

Drs. Dan Swartz and Jeff Ponke each maintain a panel of approximately 600 patients. This panel size allows the physicians to spend meaningful time with each patient and return calls and test results promptly.

Yes. Forest Direct Primary Care offers a group membership program for businesses and nonprofits with 10 or more employees. Employers can provide their staff with primary care access at a discounted group rate. Calvary Chapel Lynchburg is among the organizations whose employees receive care through this program.

Forest Direct Primary Care defines a family as a married couple plus their biological or adopted children under the age of 23. Adults aged 23 and older need their own individual membership. The maximum family registration fee is $174.

Forest DPC performs a broad range of procedures in-house, including skin biopsies, cryotherapy, dermoscopy, laceration repairs, nail and skin lesion removals, joint injections, headache injections, ECGs, spirometry, blood draws, newborn circumcision, and no-scalpel vasectomy. The practice also provides women's health services including Pap smears, biopsies, contraception, and hormone replacement therapy.

Yes. Forest Direct Primary Care is the original and first Direct Primary Care clinic in the Forest and Lynchburg, Virginia area. The practice is strictly a DPC clinic, owned and operated by physicians, with no insurance billing of any kind.