Founder and CEO of Evolve Direct Primary Care, one of the nation's first DPC practices. Evolve Direct Care is focused on providing the world's most advanced and superior primary care while at the same time dramatically improving the affordability of healthcare. The Evolve model for urgent and primary care starts at as little as $49 per month, with pricing adjustments based on age. Though Evolve is immensely popular through direct-to-consumer outlet, the model has been successfully vertically integrated with employee health plan. Evolve has successfully and dramatically lowered premiums through level-funded wrap around insurance designed to cover catastrophic care while Evolve manages all of their patient's routine primary and urgent care needs. Evolve Direct Primary Care, founded in Annapolis, Maryland in 2013, first garnered national media attention from Physicians Practice and Baltimore Business Journal 2015 Healthcare Innovator award. Evolve has gone on to accumulate awards including Capital Readers Choice Finalist 2015, 2016, 2017 and Winner in 2018 as well as Chesapeake Family magazine’s Favorite Docs 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.It’s peaceful and relaxing interior is designed to reflect an emphasis on patient convenience and experience. Evolve is one of the first practices in the United States founded as a Direct Primary Care practice. With Net Promoter Scores near 100, Evolve DPC is proving that exemplary and affordable care is possible.Learn more about Evolve here: www.emc4me.com

The Direct Primary Care Coalition is an organization whose primary purpose is to help advance state and federal policies needed to make truly affordable access to the best primary care an option for every American. It is a national organization compromised of Direct Primary Care physicians. Dr. Freedman joins longer standing steering committee members Garrison Bliss, MD and Erika Bliss, MD of Qliance, Rushika Fernandopulle, MD of Iora Health, Clint Flanagan, MD and David Tuskek, MD of Nextera Health, John Muney, MD of AMG Medical Group, Mason Reiner of R-Health, Charles Whitney, MD of Revolutionary Health Services, Vic Wood, DO of Primary Care One, Rob Bartlett, Jr. of Direct Care Partners, Brian Birdwell, MD of Birdwell Ferris Clinic, Philip Eskew, DO, JD, MBA of Frontier Direct Primary Care, Rebecca Hart, MD of South Shore Medical and Julie Gunther, MD of sparkMD.

Annapolis, MD-based Michael Freedman, MD, has joined the Advisory Board of Chesapeake Physician - Your practice. Your life. Dr. Freedman opened the doors of the first Evolve Medical Clinics site in Annapolis, September 2014. Evolve's model of care delivery is the first truly disruptive business model within the primary and urgent care arena. Evolve delivers affordable and accessible care incorporating technology to assist patients in achieving high quality, convenient medical care.Evolve Medical Clinics’ pricing structure is a groundbreaking change in healthcare delivery. Its membership and direct pay models are priced at $35/month and $25/visit, which is substantially lower than any other similar program in the US. At $1.15/day, Patients with insurance are still use their insurance for labs, X-Rays and specialists similar to a traditional medical office.Another feature that differentiates Evolve Medical Clinics from the traditional outpatient care via telemedicine. Virtual visits are conducted using HIPPA-compliant secure video. The patient only needs Internet access via a smart phone, tablet, or computer. According to the American Telehealth Association (ATA) virtual visits can be perfectly appropriate for up to 70% of urgent and primary care. Evolve uses the extensive guidelines published by the ATA to assure the highest quality care and appropriateness of virtual visits. Virtual visits eliminate the need for the patient to physically drive over and take time off from work. Patients can schedule virtual visits the same way a traditional visit is scheduled. Virtual visits are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on an urgent care basis.

Shortly after moving to Annapolis, he joined a small group of physicians who were providing medical care to the residents of the Lighthouse Shelter. This group, founded by Rich Bernstein, MD and Rich Colgan, MD, had recently begun seeing patients one afternoon per week on Clay and Washington street. Dr. Freedman was asked to assume the position of Medical Director. While with the Annapolis Outreach Clinic, Dr. Freedman personally grew the number of participating physicians from roughly 12 to well over 150. The clinic only included primary care doctors but Dr. Freedman added GYN and women’s services, Pediatric clinics, Psychiatric services, Orthopedic and Neurologic clinics, Dermatology clinic and many others. He arranged for free Radiology services through Anne Arundel Diagnostics–including CT scans and MRIs. He got AAMC to agree to donate surgical OR time for free and was able to convince the Department of Anesthesia to donate all of their time to surgery. He found members of the Surgical services including Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, General Surgery and others to donate up to 10 surgeries per month for free. Patient are able to be referred to any specialty at AAMC and be seen free of charge now. In 2007-2008, the demand for the clinic, which by then had relocated to a permanent position at the Stanton Center on Washington Street, was outstripping the space available in the building. He found more and more doctors who wanted to volunteer their time and with over 6,500 patient visits per year, he decided that another location was necessary. He and Bill West, who had become a close working ally, after many long arduous attempts, were able to convince AAMC to open a 2nd location which is now a Medicaid-type clinic located on Forest Drive. In fall 2011, Dr. Freedman stepped down from this leadership position to focus on his personal practice, running Annapolis Internal Medicine and raising his son.