Nov 3, 2014
Ali Zaman is
co-founder and CEO of Docsap, an online marketplace for
subscription-based primary care. He and a team of Brown University
students launched Docsap during the summer of 2014 to help patients
find primary care doctors offering comprehensive primary care for
an affordable monthly subscription fee.
Ali is also a Master of Public Health student at Brown University and deeply passionate about improving the current state of primary care. Prior to Brown, Ali completed his undergraduate studies in neuroscience at the University of Miami.
Website: docsap.com
Twitter: @docsaphealth
E-mail: ali@docsap.com
00:15 Vocabulary baseline: Direct Subscription Model
2:20 Difference from the Concierge Model
5:30 Patients can see exactly what they’re paying for and exactly
what they’re getting with a personal model.
9:00 Why Ali started Docsap.
10:00 A team of students from Brown and student designers are
creating this app.
11:20 Why and how a rise of a Direct Subscription Model will
improve outcomes in healthcare.
12:20 How a Direct Subscription Model works in terms of payment for
both patient and provider.
14:00 The benefits of this model and the experience that comes with
using a Direct Subscription business model.
18:00 How this works for pharmaceutical products.
19:00 Physicians are working hard to provide their own vertical
networks.
19:30 “They’re really on the same team, the doctor and the
patient.”
19:40 Bundle payments: what they are and why this is different from
the Direct Subscription Model.
20:20 Bundle payments vs. Fee for Service
21:40 Primary care doctors are trying to break off their
relationship with insurance companies to become more independent
with managing patient payments.
23:00 The kinds of technology that physicians employing the Direct
Subscription Model are using.
24:00 Ali’s advice for listeners and physicians who are thinking
about switching over to this payment business model.
25:30 You can find out more at docsap.com, or by emailing Ali
directly at ali@docsap.com.