Jonathan Bushman is a board-certified family physician, health benefits advisor, and passionate advocate for reimagining health care delivery. As the founder of Primed Healthcare, a physician-owned benefits agency, Dr. Bushman helps employers and employees navigate a transparent, trust-based approach to health care. He brings deep expertise in direct primary care and employer-sponsored health plans, focusing on solutions that align physician-led care with cost-effective strategies. Dr. Bushman serves as a fractional chief medical officer and continues to drive innovation in health plan design. Through his leadership at Reliant Direct Primary Care and thought leadership shared via LinkedIn, he works to empower organizations with health care solutions built on meaningful care rather than bureaucracy.
Jonathan Bushman is a board-certified family physician, health benefits advisor, and passionate advocate for reimagining health care delivery. As the founder of Primed Healthcare, a physician-owned benefits agency, Dr. Bushman helps employers and employees navigate a transparent, trust-based approach to health care. He brings deep expertise in direct primary care and employer-sponsored health plans, focusing on solutions that align physician-led care with cost-effective strategies. Dr. Bushman serves as a fractional chief medical officer and continues to drive innovation in health plan design. Through his leadership at Reliant Direct Primary Care and thought leadership shared via LinkedIn, he works to empower organizations with health care solutions built on meaningful care rather than bureaucracy.
I spent 11 years becoming a family physician.
Four years in undergrad, four in medical school, three more in residency.
That’s a decade of delayed income and about $300,000 in debt, all for the privilege of practicing in one of the most critical, underappreciated corners of medicine: primary care.
I came out idealistic. I wanted to build relationships, prevent disease, and guide people through the chaos of a broken system. But I quickly …
She works for a not-for-profit health system, but nothing about what she described to me felt charitable. A young physician, just a few years into her career, she’s already facing a choice that no doctor should ever have to make: protect her patients or protect the metrics that determine her employer’s paycheck.
The heart of the problem
This physician works under a value-based payment model. On paper, it sounds great: Pay doctors …
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