Information For Doctors
Physicians are paid $68 per patient per year. Payments are made quarterly. This is a nominal fee to thank the participating physicians for their service. Doctors choose the number of Access to Care patients form their local communities to be added to their practice. Doctors must agree to see a minimum of ten Access to Care patients.
Expansion of the program to meet the needs of the growing number of uninsured depends on the generosity of local physicians and physician groups.
“Access to Care is better than giving free service or care. It places philanthropy in an organized, funded controlled enviroment.”
A participating physician
Access to Care has been endorsed by the Institute of Medicine of Chicago, the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians, the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians/Northern Illinois Region and is supported by the Chicago Medical Society.
If you are an internist or family practitioner and want to help your community by becoming a participating physician, click here. You may also contact us by fax or traditional mail. Please include your name, address (city, state, zip code) daytime phone number and the best time to contact you.
Access to Care is extremely grateful to the over 700 participating physicians whose service to the program has been conservatively estimated to be worth $2.5 million.
Informational Video
To see how your donations to Access to Care are used, watch “Seeing the Invisible, a 10 minute video. This short film is a play on “invisible”, as being uninsured in invisible as is Access to Care. There are no signs that say Access to Care. The program is your participating physician, Walgreens, the many lab and radiology sites, it is not contained in one location with a big sign saying that Access to Care is here. Many patients and physicians are spotlighted, telling their feelings about Access to Care.
Watch the Video >
Access to Care compiles average usage per patient annually.
The most frequent diagnoses are determined by the physician reports that are submitted each year. Since the program began, Diabetes and Hypertension have been the two most often reported chronic illnesses.
All other utilization figures are determined by services paid for by Access to Care.
Download Utilization and Diagnoses