Montana adopts new healthcare plan, no insurance needed

Montana is adopting a new form of healthcare where the billing and payment agreement made between a doctor and their patient does not involve insurance.

Direct primary care is a monthly membership health care plan. Under this plan, the patients’ health insurance will not be billed or accepted. Cole Whitmoyer is the first and only physician to have direct primary care in Billings. He is a family nurse practitioner at his recently-opened business Flex Family Health.

Outside of Billings and Bozeman, direct primary care facilities can be found in Missoula, Polson and Kalispell. Washington also has numerous options and a couple are starting to grow in Idaho.