# The Direct Care List

> Crowd-ranked directory of direct primary care (DPC), direct specialty care (DSC), and cash-pay clinics. Labels practices as True Direct Care, Hybrid, or Insurance-first so patients can tell membership medicine from marketing.

The Direct Care List helps patients find clinicians who work for them — membership or transparent cash prices, not insurance theater. Practices are searchable by name, specialty, and location (natural-language queries like “spine surgeon near Atlanta, GA”).

## Core

- [Home / directory](https://thedirectcarelist.com/): Searchable, vote-ranked list of direct care practices with cost, city/state, specialty, and verdict.
- [Why direct care](https://thedirectcarelist.com/#doom): Plain-language guide to what true direct care is, how Hybrid differs, and how Insurance-first clinics misuse “direct” / “concierge” language.
- [About (Markdown)](https://thedirectcarelist.com/about.md): Stable facts for citation — definitions, verdicts, how to use the list, and contact posture.
- [Full LLM context](https://thedirectcarelist.com/llms-full.txt): Single-file digest of the same facts for RAG / agents.

## Product actions

- [Add a practice](https://thedirectcarelist.com/#add): Submit a listing (specialty, membership/cash price, city/state, why direct).
- [Practices feed](https://thedirectcarelist.com/#startups): Newly listed practices.
- [Live stats](https://thedirectcarelist.com/#stats): Traffic and directory analytics (first-party).
- [Sponsor](https://thedirectcarelist.com/#sponsor): Advertise in the 20-slot sponsor board.

## Machine-readable data

- [Practices API (JSON)](https://thedirectcarelist.com/api/practices): Published practice catalog (`id`, `name`, `specialty`, `city`, `state`, `verdict`, membership fields, likes).
- [Sitemap](https://thedirectcarelist.com/sitemap.xml): URL list for crawlers.

## Optional

- [Practice dashboard](https://thedirectcarelist.com/#dashboard): Sign-in for owners to edit a listing.