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At One Peoria Medical Clinic, Your Insurance Isn't Needed. Here's How It Works

Tim Shelley / Peoria Public Radio

One Peoria medical clinic doesn't want your insurance card. Instead, it's working under an alternate membership-based payment model called "direct primary care."

WCBU's Tim Shelley recently spoke with Dr. T.J. Grausch, a family physician at UnityPoint's Junction Medical clinic, to learn more about why the alternative delivery model is becoming more prevalent throughout the country in recent years.

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Tim is the News Director at WCBU Peoria Public Radio.