Company Profile
Evolve Direct Primary Care
Company Overview
Evolve Direct Primary Care is Annapolis’ highest rated Primary and Urgent Care.
Read some of Evolve's hundreds of “5 Star” reviews from Yelp, Google and Facebook.
Evolve providers actually listen and spend the time necessary to help get you feeling better. Same day appointments with little to no wait time. Compassionate and respectful team based approach combined with eliminating all of the hassles of health insurance.
Evolve’s unique Primary Care membership model starts at only $59/month and provides affordable, thorough care via traditional in-person visits, virtual visits, phone visits or even just text or email.
Patients not only get seen when they need to be seen but also save money on medications, labs & radiology.
Learn more: www.EMC4me.com
Company History
Evolve Direct Primary Care was founded in 2014.
Evolve’s founder, Dr. Michael Freedman, had 28 years of experience as an Internal Medicine Specialist. He had trained at all the top institutions in the country and had extensive experience practicing outpatient clinical medicine, inpatient hospital medicine as well as over 10 years experience as a Practice Administrator for a large multi-specialty group.
Dr. Freedman also developed and ran one of the nations busiest free clinics, in downtown Annapolis, for many years, arranging for over 6,000 patient visits per year at ZERO cost to the patients.
Ironically, it was the observation of just how much easier, safer and faster the practice of primary and urgent care worked at the free clinic relative to his own private clinic. In fact, he felt the free clinic patients were often getting even better care because he had more time to devote to each patient. And the staff had more time and resources to spend helping patients get their appointments, finding them discounted medications and following up with them.
Dr. Freedman had been ranked a “Top Doc” for multiple years as voted on by his peers at Anne Arundel Medical Center. Tired of practicing medicine in a traditional office, and aware of patient frustration with the long waits, crowded waiting rooms and rushed visits, he concluded that the only way to build a truly world-class, peak-performing primary or urgent care clinic would be to start from scratch.
Primary Care Is 85% of All the Medical Care We Need (for most of us)
85% of all medical care the average person gets each year is primary care or urgent care, only a tiny percentage of a patient’s insurance premiums go toward this 85%.
Dr. Freedman realized that for as little as $59 per month, he could provide all the primary care and urgent care someone might need. Then they only would need catastrophic insurance coverage if something terrible should happen–kind of what insurance is like for home, auto and everything else.
In other words, he’d cover all the routine day to day stuff but the patient would have a true insurance plan that just covered them in the rare event that something should happen. The patient would save a ton of money and Dr. Freedman could focus on what he loved to do the most–practice medicine, one on one, without the interference of any 3rd parties.
At the same time, unknown to many including Dr. Freedman, a small but growing movement was emerging called “Direct Primary Care,” which had, at it’s central core philosophy, many of the same beliefs Dr. Freedman had had.
With that philosophy, Evolve was founded as the first Direct Primary Care in Maryland.
Evolve’s Founding Principles
Evolve was founded with a focus on:
Providing the time necessary for providers and patients to effectively manage health problems.
Superior providers providing better care.
Great communication is critical to good care.
Highly individualized and personalized care.
Easy access to providers and staff (technology allows for virtual visits, email, text, live phone support, same day appointments).
Wait times less than 30 minutes. In general, being much more respectful of people’s time.
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