By Jill nagy
Dr. Danushan Sooriabalan—known as Dr. Dan to many of his patients—expects his new “direct primary care” practice to give him more time with patients and less with paperwork.
Patients will pay a fixed monthly fee, the amount depending upon their age, for unlimited access to his care.
The doctor, an internist, has been in practice since 2007. He did his internal medicine residency at Albany Medical Center, including a year as head resident, was a hospitalist at Glens Falls Hospital for 10 years, and was part of the Hudson Headwaters practice group.
In May, he set out on his own with an office at 2452 Route 9 in Malta.
He said after his first six weeks, he had 87 patients. He aims for a maximum of 300.
Most of his new patients are from Malta, Clifton Park, Saratoga and other nearby communities. He made no attempt to bring patients from his prior practice “out of respect for my previous employers,” he said.
While he expects to hire a nurse in the near future and uses a third-party company for billing, everything else is “do it myself.”
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