FindMyDirectDoctor Directory API

Monthly membership price statistics for US direct primary care (DPC), concierge and cash-pay practices in a state or within a radius of a ZIP code, city or latitude/longitude. Returns practice counts, and per practice model the minimum, 25th percentile, median, 75th percentile, maximum and mean monthly fee, plus the median enrollment fee. Based on the FindMyDirectDoctor directory, verified October 2026.

Short answers to common money questions about health care without insurance, found by keyword search over 1,525 question-and-answer pairs from 246 Foundation guides on cash prices, medical bills, Medicaid, direct primary care, medicines and dental care. Each answer comes with its guide link, review date and the physician-review credit.

Help with a medical bill: step-by-step checklists (itemized bill, negotiation, financial assistance, payment plan, collections, credit report, good faith estimate), word-for-word phone scripts for the call, and the consumer rights the guides quote (emergency care, price transparency, No Surprises Help Desk). Quoted from 14 published guides. Plain information, not legal advice.

One-call overview of lower-cost care options near a location: the 3 lowest-priced direct primary care (DPC) and cash-pay doctors, the 3 nearest HRSA health centers (sliding fee clinics), and, when a service is named, the 3 lowest posted hospital cash prices with the area median and financial assistance links. Includes a short plain options overview.

Whether doctor's offices near a place say they are taking new patients, how a patient can book (online scheduling, membership enrollment or request form), and whether they list telehealth, home visits, languages spoken, or Saturday, Sunday and evening hours. Filters combine. Each fact carries the date it was read and a stale flag after 45 days. Statements are the practice's own. Confirm before booking.

Child, family, couple, senior, employer, student and add-on member plan prices at doctor's offices near a place, cheapest first, with age bands, billing period and what each plan lists. Also gives the spread of published monthly plan prices (median and quartiles) for a state or the nation. Covers direct primary care and concierge practices. Prices are published by the practice; confirm before booking.

Doctor's offices near a place whose membership plans state a given item, such as labs, generic medications, telehealth, house calls, same-day visits or 24/7 phone access, with the plan, its price and the practice's own wording. One result per practice. A practice not shown did not state the item in the pages read, which does not mean it is excluded. Published by the practice; confirm before booking.

What a doctor's office says about insurance on its own website: that it does not bill insurance, bills insurance, or both, plus mentions of superbills for reimbursement, HSA and FSA cards, Medicare and Medicaid. Found for one named practice or searched near a place by stance, mention or HSA/FSA wording. The wording is the practice's own, not advice on coverage or eligibility. Published by the practice; confirm before booking.

Membership price sheet of one US doctor's office, read from its own website: every plan with its monthly, yearly or one-time price, who it covers (adult, child, family, couple, senior, employer), what it lists as included, the enrollment fee and the extra costs. Also finds enrollment fees or extra charges near a place. Covers direct primary care (DPC) and concierge practices. Published by the practice; confirm before booking.

One-page profile of a US direct primary care, concierge or cash-pay doctor's office from its own website: confirmed adult monthly fee, enrollment fee, insurance stance, new-patient status, booking link, telehealth, home visits, languages, hours, HSA/FSA wording, services, conditions listed and locations. Looked up by website, phone, name or doctor id, compared for up to five, or searched by service, condition, network or founding year. Confirm before booking.

Colonoscopy price estimate near a location: posted hospital cash prices for four colonoscopy codes (diagnostic, with biopsy, with polyp removal, screening) with area medians, plus the Medicare 2026 allowed amounts at an ambulatory surgery center (surgery center) versus a hospital outpatient department for that ZIP, split into facility, doctor, anesthesia and lab. Plain explanations included. Reference prices, not quotes.

Everyday health words such as sugar, bad back or high bp matched to a canonical condition name, the kinds of specialists the Foundation condition table lists for it, and proposed related billing codes for price lookups. Emergency conditions return a call-911 notice and no codes. Name matching over 3,577 conditions and 319 lay terms; not a diagnosis.

Cash and self-pay prices for everyday care without insurance, such as a doctor visit, CT scan, colonoscopy, birth control, a surgery, a medical device or a vaccine, from 61 published Foundation guides. Every price figure keeps its quoted sentence, its basis (Medicare payment, posted clinic price, study figure) and its source link, plus price drivers, lower-cost routes and questions for getting a quote. Physician-reviewed, FindMyDirectDoctor Foundation.

Dental prices without insurance for a cleaning, filling, crown, root canal, extraction, implant, denture or braces: sample fees from dental school clinics, health departments and posted practice prices, each labeled with its basis, quoted sentence and source link, plus lower-cost routes and Medicaid dental coverage notes. Taken from 15 Foundation dental guides, reviewed by a physician.

Medicine cost benchmarks for people without insurance, by drug or drug class (67 guides). Shows the pharmacy acquisition cost per unit (NADAC, what pharmacies pay, not a retail price), Medicare Part D average spending per claim, posted cash price examples, brand names and whether the medicine is prescription-only, each with its quote and source link. Benchmarks only, not a pharmacy price.

Counts of the direct primary care (DPC), concierge and cash-pay practices in the FindMyDirectDoctor directory, nationwide (by state and by practice model) or near a ZIP code, city and state, or latitude/longitude within a radius: how many practices, how many publish a monthly fee, and the distance to the nearest one. Counts only, with no names or contact details. Verified October 2026.

Screens a household for a likely coverage pathway from state, household size and yearly income: Medicaid may qualify, Marketplace subsidy may qualify, coverage gap, or above the subsidy range. Uses 2026 federal poverty guidelines and KFF-reported state Medicaid limits, reports income as a percent of the poverty line and links the state Medicaid office. Screening estimate only; the state decides. Income is not stored or logged.

What to look at after a loss of job-based coverage or a change in coverage: COBRA alternatives, self-employed options, special enrollment windows, Medicaid eligibility, the 2027 Medicaid work requirement with state start dates where state guides give them, Medicare Savings Program limits, free clinics, and helpline numbers. Quoted from 29 published guides with source links.

Credentials search: find doctors by board certification, medical school, residency or fellowship program, hospital affiliation, publications (topic, journal, years), awards, academic title and institution, or years of experience. Results show the matching training, boards and papers with source grades. Only what the practice or the publisher lists, so many doctors list none. Needs a location or state, or an NPI.

Doctors who speak a language such as Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic or Vietnamese, near a ZIP, city or coordinates. Each result says whether the clinician or only the practice staff is stated to speak it, with the source grade and page. Filters by specialty, credential, practice model and insurance stance. Languages come only from the practice's own site, so a rare language may return no match.

House-call and home-visit doctors near a ZIP, city or coordinates, as the practice words it: radius, fees, and whether it is for seniors, newborns and postpartum mothers, or members only. Every result links the practice page that says so and shows its source grade. About one listed practice in ten offers home visits, so widen the radius or search by state.

Doctor profile by NPI or by name and state: training, board certifications, languages, services, telehealth, home visits, fees and insurance stance, each as the practice states it with a source grade. Also compares 2 to 5 doctors side by side (ids) and lists colleagues at the same practice (colleagues_of). Same-name doctors are returned as candidates with a match confidence. Cash-pay, direct primary care and concierge directory.

US direct primary care (DPC), concierge and cash-pay doctor directory with published adult monthly membership prices. Search by ZIP code, city and state, or latitude/longitude within a radius. Filter by practice model and maximum monthly fee, sort by distance or price. Returns practice, clinician, address, phone, website, monthly fee, enrollment fee, insurance stance and distance. 4,059 US clinicians from the FindMyDirectDoctor directory, verified October 2026.

Cash-pay and membership specialists near a location: mental health (psychiatrist, psychiatric NP, psychologist, therapist), pediatrics, women's health, dermatology and aesthetics, orthopedics and pain, senior care, integrative, or any directory specialty. Narrows by condition, age group, monthly fee, insurance stance, telehealth and whether new patients are accepted. Specialty is the directory label, not a verified board specialty.

Telehealth-first and telehealth-included doctors, found near a place or by the state the patient is in (patient_state, matched to licenses on the NPI registry). Separates telehealth included in the membership, telehealth only, and in-person plus telehealth. Each result carries the practice's own wording, source page and grade. Statements are practice-level and do not prove a doctor may treat a patient in another state.

Which doctors treat a condition or offer a service, such as anxiety, diabetes, acne, Botox or knee pain, near a location. Every match is labelled stated (the practice lists it, with the page) or specialty-inferred (the specialty usually treats it, the practice did not say so). Stated matches come first. Generalist labels are never used to infer. Not a referral or a recommendation.

Direct primary care (DPC) facts: whether a membership counts as insurance, how the HSA rule effective January 1, 2026 treats monthly fees (the IRS limits are quoted from the guide), DPC versus concierge medicine, typical monthly cost, who it suits, and questions to ask a practice. Nine Foundation guides with quoted sentences. Tax details are quoted, not advice.

Catalog of the 246 Foundation guides on paying for health care without insurance, with title, one-line summary, group, review date, whether it has price figures and the paid route and topic value that serves it. Browse by group or keyword with paging. Covers cost, medicine, dental, bills, coverage change, direct primary care and all 50 states plus DC.

HRSA-funded community health centers (sliding fee clinics that charge by income) near a ZIP code, city and state, or latitude/longitude, with address, phone and website. Source: HRSA Health Center Program, ODbL 1.0.

Compares a price quote for a hospital service with hospital cash prices posted within 50 miles of a ZIP code, falling back to the state. Returns the percentile of the quote, the local median and range, a neutral label (below typical, typical, above typical, far above typical) and plain next steps such as asking for an itemized bill, asking about a self-pay discount and financial assistance (charity care) links. Not legal or medical advice.

Dictionary of the 28 hospital services in the price library. Lists each CPT or HCPCS billing code with a plain name, category and the everyday words people use, and maps words such as brain MRI without contrast to a code.

US hospital self-pay (cash) prices posted under the federal price transparency rule. Search 28 common services (imaging, blood tests, emergency room visit levels, EKG, colonoscopy) by CPT or HCPCS billing code or plain words, near a ZIP code, city and state, or latitude/longitude. Returns each hospital's posted cash price, distance, price file date, data flag and financial assistance (charity care) link, plus the area median. Facility portion only; final bills can differ.

Statistics of hospital self-pay (cash) prices for one service in a state or nationwide: number of hospitals, lowest, 25th percentile, median, 75th percentile and highest posted price, plus the national median. The service is a CPT or HCPCS code or plain words such as brain MRI. Built from prices hospitals post under the federal price transparency rule, read in October 2026. Facility portion only.

Finds a hospital's financial assistance (charity care) policy link by CMS certification number (CCN), by hospital name and state with fuzzy matching, or for the nearest hospitals to a location. Returns the hospital's own policy page or an explicit statement that no verified link was found, a state charity-care law note where one is on file, and a plain explanation of the federal rule (section 501(r)) that applies to nonprofit hospitals.

Published self-pay (cash) prices for a named service at doctor's offices near a place, such as a sports physical, DOT physical, office visit, lab test, EKG, vaccine or weight-loss program, cheapest first, with unit, audience and starts-at or range labels. Can also list practices that publish long price lists. One result per practice. Prices are published by the practice; confirm before booking.

Spread of published self-pay (cash) prices for a named service across doctor's offices in a state, around a place or nationwide: lowest, median, quartiles and highest of each practice's lowest exact price, with the number of practices and a split by practice model. Medians need 5 practices and quartiles 10. These are posted prices, not what patients paid. Confirm with the practice before booking.

List of the 53 specialties in the Foundation condition table with plain-language names, whether each is a generalist (family or internal medicine), the practice models (DPC, concierge) listed for it and how many conditions map to it. Filterable by word or practice model. Names and counts only, no doctors.

State-by-state options for getting care without insurance: the state's Medicaid program name, whether it expanded Medicaid and whether adults fall in the coverage gap, the Medicaid work-rule start date its guide gives, the state license lookup page for checking a doctor, the DPC law where a guide states one, and the count of HRSA health center sites. One state per request.