Medical Care

Humming Rock Healing is an integrative, holistic, medical practice.

Dr. Summers integrates tools to improve regulation the nervous system to support resolution of symptoms and the emergence of health. She also integrates tools to support myofascial release and chronic muscle tension.

For medical care, we offer three options.

Direct Primary Care:

Direct Primary Care is Primary Care billed on a subscription model outside of medical insurance. What this allows for is for Primary Care as it should be. You and your doctor are in direct communication and you’ll have easy access with a phone, number to text, and email. It provides more availability and accessibility for appointments, longer more relaxed appointment times, and even home visits locally. It affords the opportunity to develop a relationship with your doctor who can help you achieve your health goals. Not limited by insurance, allows more flexibility with care, and more time allows Primary Care Doctors to practice medicine the way we know how to and limit knee-jerk referrals to specialists and over-tesing.

Fee For Service & Fill-in-the-Gaps Care:

This is an option to book medical appointments based on time. This is an option if you want to see a doctor for whatever reason. Perhaps you can’t get in to see your primary care physician, you're in New York for a short time and need medical care, you’re curious about another evaluation, or have an acute medical need but don’t want to go to an urgent care center, you can book an appointment for your needs. As we are cash-based, if you don’t have insurance, it is likely less expensive than seeking care elsewhere.

Care Packages tailored to your needs:

For patients with chronic medical problems to include headache and migraine, autoimmunity, Long COVID, she can work with you to incorporate her different skills to help reduce your symptoms.

It is important that you feel a sense of comfortability and trust with Becca. To meet her and see if she's a good fit, book a free meeting.

Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) are incredibly pressed for time and taxed in our current medical system. Frankly, it’s a system that is frustrating for both doctors and patients alike.

Time is a necessary component for understanding a patient’s unique presenting symptoms, to make a diagnosis, and to create a thoughtful treatment plan that works for the individual. With more time, it’s likely to reduce the unnecessary testing and imaging and to develop a way forward that is effective for the individual keeping the patient’s intentions in focus.

Dr. Summers offers medical appointments, evaluations, diagnosis as you would have with Primary Care Physician (PCP) but may not have a PCP now or aren’t able to access your PCP as you’d like.

If you have a chronic medical illness, Becca’s approach is to integrate the modalities she uses with medical care. She helps to manage your medications in communication with your other providers, consider factors that may have been overlooked, and orders diagnostic testing when appropriate. Examples below but certainly not limited to:

Migraine and Headache
Autoimmune Diseases
Hypertension
Diabetes Mellitus
Chronic Infectious Diseases like HIV or post-infectious disease states including LONG-COVID
Chronic Pain
Post-Concussion Syndrome – SE and touch techniques can be very supportive to resolve the lingering effects of previous or recent concussion (this is often very much underappreciated)
Fatigue
Support through Cancer

Example: Dr. Summers supported a woman who had been diagnosed with an autoimmune lung disease and was disabled and reliant on home oxygen. Over the course of 3 months, we used some sessions of SE and guided her through the Safe and Sound protocol. She was able to come down on medications and eventually was no longer reliant on home oxygen. While she was on many other medications that were crucial for her to support survival to get her better, when her nervous-system was able to regulate better, that is when the healing emerged.

What is Direct Primary Care or DPC?

Direct because it takes out the middle of insurance companies

Care as it intentionally brings back the care to Primary Care

The goal of Direct Primary Care is to provide Primary Care as most of us Primary Care Docs had hoped it would be. We know our patients well, we have time to manage our patients and provide tailored care specific to the patients needs. We work as their point person for their health with a goal to reduce procedures, reduce referrals and to optimize our patients health so they can have more fulfilling lives. And yet functioning as a Primary Care Physician in our current medical model did not allow me to practice to my full capacity. I loved knowing my patients and caring for them, but I carried with me a pervasive guilt that I wasn’t providing the care for in the way that I wanted to.

DIrect Primary Care doesn’t work with insurance. It is a model of subscription just like a gym membership or a streaming service. DPC is also not an insurance plan; it is recommended patients should continue to have insurance for labs, medications, emergency care, imaging and specialists,

What does it provide? With DPC, doctors work with significantly fewer patients. This translates to longer, and easier to schedule appointments, more direct accessibility for you to me and me to you, greater ease of care and flexibility. Working outside the insurance model means that I can provide medical care to you differently. You can see me as little or as much (within reason) as you need to. My appointment times are longer in general and when appropriate some issues can be handled via telephone or virtually. There will be more accessibility for appointments and you’ll have a phone number to text me directly for communication. I’ll have a better sense of you and your body to know when we can handle things virtually or via in person would be better. We can chat by phone to figure that out. The goal is better, easier, more efficient care with more effective communication and connection in an atmosphere that is more relaxed.

Pricing:

Ages 18-35 $135/month
Ages 36-64 $150/month
People experiencing Long COVID requiring more intensive Primary Care $210/month
For folks committing to at least 2 Somatic Experiencing sessions per month, DPC rate $65 month

What's Included:

Acute (eg sick visits) and Non-acute office visits
Chronic disease management (e.g. diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, heart disease, headaches)
Preventive care
Wellness visits
Well-woman care including PAP Smears
Physicals for employment, school, sports
Smoking cessation
Healthy Lifestyle Counseling
Removal of benign skin lesions / warts
Simple dermatology procedures
Aspiration and/or injection of joints
Abscess Incision and Drainage
Wound repair and sutures
Ear wax removal
Trigger point injection
EKG
HIV Subspecialty Care
PREP for HIV and associated care
STI testing and treatment
Stress management
Travel Medicine for prescription prophylaxis (not Yellow Fever vaccine etc)

I will begin enrolling patients for Direct Primary Care shortly: if you are interested in working with me in this model, please send an email to info@hummingrockhealing.com with DPC in the title and I’ll reach out as the time nears!

In addition to preventative, acute and chronic health care needs, DPC memberships will include some Somatic Experiencing, and Trigger Point Needling therapy.

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