Dr. Rutherford, featured in video by Global Health Project
Direct Primary Care (DPC) is an innovative model that is growing in popularity in the United States. Unlike other self-pay or medical practices, DPC is affordable for anyone.
In a traditional primary care practice, office visits are expensive, with most of the cost attributable to administrative overhead, due to burdensome insurance paperwork and government regulations. Paying a membership fee to your physician allows him/her to limit the patient panel, and thus spend more time with you at your appointment and interact with you via email and phone.
Direct Primary Care offers these benefits, and more:
- Convenient access to your physician
- Low-cost prescription medicines with direct dispensing from the office
- On-site, low-cost labs
- Less time in the waiting room
- Same-day appointments
- Phone, text and virtual consultations, often eliminating the need for an in-person appointment
- Ethical medical advice that also holds your pocketbook in regard
- Our approach to good physical health first is the primary defense against illness and disease
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Founder, Medical Director, Physician
Dr. Molly Rutherford was born and raised in Virginia and graduated from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2003. Prior to medical school, she worked at the National Institutes of Health as a biologist and policy analyst and graduated with a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. She and her husband relocated to Kentucky in 2006, where she worked as an employed physician for several years. In 2012 she achieved Board Certification in Addiction medicines, and in 2015, she opened Bluegrass Family Wellness, where she continues to practice Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine, with a focus on holistic, individualized care and prevention of illness. She cares for people of all ages.
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Since Bluegrass Family Wellness dispenses medications from the office, you also save money on prescriptions. We order the medications wholesale and pass that savings onto you. In some cases, a monthly supply of medication can cost hundreds of dollars at a pharmacy and only $3 at Bluegrass Family Wellness. Common labs are provided at cost as well, and certain labs and tests, such as EKG, lung testing, and strep/flu tests are included in your monthly fee. Also included are minor surgeries and joint injections. Any specialist referrals or hospitalizations will be covered by your insurance plan, and we will help you find an affordable insurance plan with appropriate coverage.