This Washington NP didn’t have it all figured out. She began anyway.
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Why Jewel wanted to start her own practice
Before opening LUXEVA, I worked full time as an NP coordinating and providing care for patients living in skilled nursing facilities. I learned a lot and will forever be grateful for that experience. However, along the way, I started to picture something more. I wanted balance. I wanted a deeper sense of fulfillment.
“I wanted to practice medicine in a way that felt truly personal. I wanted to build something that was mine.”
Jewel’s care philosophy
At LUXEVA, every decision I make is based on what I believe is best for my patients, rather than simply meeting a corporate standard. That’s what high-quality care looks like to me.
“Once people come in and experience the care you provide, your work speaks for itself.”
My patients come to LUXEVA specifically looking for that type of personalized care and have now started referring their friends and family. That trust, and the feeling that I’m really impacting people’s lives, are the most rewarding parts of my practice.
When I first thought about opening, I knew I wanted to focus on wellness, have control over my schedule, and actually give quality time to my patients.
I originally planned to do only cash-pay, because I thought accepting insurance would mean spending a lot of time on authorizations, billing questions, and reimbursements instead of actually seeing and caring for patients. But I’ve learned that if you have the right support handling the back office, like Corner Health provides, insurance isn’t nearly as difficult as I thought it would be.
I never really saw myself building a practice from scratch, especially this early in my NP career. Looking back, I’m surprised by how much I’ve been able to figure out along the way.
How Corner Health helped Jewel’s dream come true
It’s actually been very different from what I imagined. Accepting insurance hasn’t been nearly as overwhelming as I thought it would be.
With the help of Corner Health, I don’t personally have to deal with the insurance-related work or the back-end processes I was so worried about. That has made a huge difference, because I can focus on the actual patient care.
My favorite parts about Corner Health are:
- My time back: Corner Health has taken a huge amount of the work off my plate when it comes to insurance, billing, and reimbursement.
- My vision, intact: I haven’t felt like adding insurance has taken away from the identity or direction of LUXEVA.
- No team to build: I haven’t had to build out a whole team just to make the practice function.
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What drives Jewel’s commitment to independent practice
Being able to control my time is probably one of the biggest things. But beyond that, it’s the sense of pride that comes with building something of my own, something my family can also be proud of. I get to mold LUXEVA into my vision of what personalized, high-quality care should look like.
What I’d tell myself a year ago: Just believe in the process. You don’t have to know exactly where it’s going to take you. Just keep going.
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