Vital Edge Health is a membership based Direct Primary Care (DPC) healthcare network. We are a growing network of DPC health clinics in Oregon and nationally. Have a look at our locations to see all clinics in our network.
Vital Edge Health is an affordable healthcare option for employers and their employees.
Signing up is easy:
- Give us a call or send email
- We set you up on Hint for automatic monthly payments
- Your employee chooses their preferred clinic
- You can easily manage your employees online
If you no longer need our services, canceling is just as easy as signing up, all you have to do is give us 30 days notice. For more in-depth information, please see our employer handbook.
Why Direct Primary Care?
Direct Primary Care…
- …PROVIDES QUICKER ACCESS to healthcare professionals and more personalized care – because our doctors are not bound by any rules and regulations of the insurance companies. This leads to better health outcomes overall.
- …HAS NO LIMITATIONS for pre-existing conditions and the focus is on prevention.
- …LOWERS HEALTH COSTS DRAMATICALLY because the patient pays the health clinic a flat monthly fee for primary care, with no deductibles nor co-pays,
- …DOCTORS HAVE MORE TIME with their patients, which leads to more satisfaction for both patient and doctor.
- …REDUCES ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS for the clinic because it eliminates filing insurance claims, leaving the doctors more time with the patients.
- …COVERS most MEDICAL NEEDS. For anything that is not covered by the membership, many of our patients carry a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP). This is often accessed through an employer or through the Healthcare Marketplace. Our patients often find that they spend substantially less on their healthcare overall by layering their insurance plan with their VEH membership.
Why Vital Edge Health Exists
McClane and Sandra Duncan, the power behind Vital Edge Health, became really frustrated with the state of our healthcare system, as they helplessly watched McClane’s father-in-law go through conventional cancer treatment, get weaker and weaker, and eventually die. Then McClane injured his back and no conventional doctor could help him relieve this excruciating pain for over two years. He tried many therapies – which he often had to pay for out of pocket – that didn’t work at all or were too expensive to continue. When at last he found a doctor who was open to answer questions, relieve his pain, and address the root cause, he was able to finally heal. This was an alternative doctor who offered the unconventional treatment of Prolotherapy, and he has left a deep impression on McClane, his wife Sandra, and his family.
Helping people live a pain free life is a very important part of McClane’s mission. Besides that he has also trained in Prolotherapy and now teaches it nationally.
McClane studied Naturopathy on Bastyr University in Washington State for 6 years, then took his family and moved to the beautiful Rogue Valley in Southern Oregon. Here McClane and Sandra started their health clinic – Siskiyou Vital Medicine – which was the very first Naturopathic Direct Primary Care clinic in the nation.
This was over a decade ago, and their clinic has been able to help many patients recover from illness. But watching the rising healthcare costs over the last decade, Sandra and McClane wanted to go even further and bring this healthcare model to the employers of the valley as well as get more clinics on board – to offer this much more affordable, more personalized healthcare benefit to local employees. Now Vital Edge Health is well on its way to becoming national.
Sandra and McClane envision a future of affordable healthcare where empowered patients can address health concerns the moment they arise. It’s a model where everyone is supported in learning how to live well and maintain optimal health—guided by doctors who serve not just as clinicians, but as trusted teachers and navigators in today’s rapidly changing world.
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