Direct Doctors

Direct Doctors Membership based primary care at affordable rates - unlimited access, convenient scheduling, and text your doctor directly! This is our goal.

Come find out the Direct Doctors difference!! We want to bring back the good old days when the doctor visited knew every member of your family, took time to listen to your stories and concerns, and treated you with compassion and care. To accomplish this, we provide a wide range of personalized services. Our plans offer home visits and all of our plans offer social visits and care coordination during or after a hospital stay. By keeping our practice small, you will always be able to see your doctor or one of your doctor's partners. We do not use an answering service of outside doctors who don't have access to your record and don't know who you are. By getting you in the same day if you need it, you can avoid going unnecessarily to the urgent care, minute clinics, and the emergency room and seeing a provider who doesn't know you. We can help guide you to appropriate specialists when needed but will make every effort to manage your complaints in our primary care office setting. You will be able to see your primary care doctor when you want. You can contact your doctor by cell phone, email, or text messaging. Instead of the usual 7-10 minutes with the doctor, you will choose 30 or 60 minute visits that you can schedule yourself online the same day or whenever it fits your schedule. You can visit, call, or message with the doctor as many times in a year as you need. This means, if your health requires five visits in a week, you can do it! You will only ever be charged one low monthly flat rate fee and a specific price on additional services at-cost. There are no hidden fees or confusing bills. We don't make money by providing you additional services. This helps ensure you only get the procedures and care that you need and want - not what we can bill for as in the typical insurance fee-for-service model. If you have insurance, we will never bill your insurance for our included services. And, for services we don't provide, we will help you to find low cost options and preferred specialists who either take your insurance or bill you a transparent fee. We designed this practice for you! It is a product of years of living in New England, hearing what family and friends want and hope for from their doctor. As three Brown Family Medicine trained doctors, we've decided to challenge convention and bring you a new, different, and, we think, better kind of healthcare.

03/13/2026

Many Rhode Island families now carry high deductible health plans.

That often means paying out of pocket before coverage begins.

Direct Primary Care offers a different structure:

✔ Predictable monthly membership
✔ Direct access to your physician
✔ Same-day or next-day appointments

Insurance handles the unexpected.
We focus on day-to-day primary care.

Serving 1,800+ patients in Rhode Island since 2014.
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03/13/2026

Most families have $6,000–$12,000 health insurance deductibles now.
That means you’re paying out-of-pocket anyway!

So instead of unpredictable bills and short visits, what if you had:
✔️ A predictable monthly fee
✔️ Unlimited access
✔️ Same-day or next-day care

Your insurance covers catastrophes. We cover everything else.
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Trusted by Rhode Island families since 2014.

East Greenwich. Warwick. Cranston. North Kingstown. Coventry.If you live in Rhode Island and do not have a primary care ...
03/11/2026

East Greenwich. Warwick. Cranston. North Kingstown. Coventry.

If you live in Rhode Island and do not have a primary care doctor you trust, this is for you.

I am Dr. Laura Henseler, a board-certified Family Physician and Addiction Medicine specialist at Direct Doctors.

Primary care should mean time, continuity, and real conversation.

Not rushed visits. Not unanswered messages.

Serving 1,800+ Rhode Island patients since 2014 in an all-physician practice.

Now accepting new patients in East Greenwich.
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03/09/2026

If your doctor has 2,000 patients…

How much time can they realistically spend with you?

Direct Primary Care exists for a reason.

Smaller patient panels.
Longer appointments.
Direct access to your physician.

Direct Doctors has been serving 1,800+ Rhode Island patients since 2014.

Accepting new patients in East Greenwich and Riverside.
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03/09/2026

What if your doctor worked for you — not your insurance company?

Direct Primary Care is simple:
✔️ One flat monthly membership
✔️ Unlimited visits
✔️ Direct access to your physician
✔️ Longer appointments

No copays. No surprise bills. No rushing.

Direct Doctors has been serving Rhode Island families this way since 2014.

Healthcare can be simple again. Comment 'DPC' if you want to know how it works.

03/09/2026

If your doctor has 2,000 patients…
How much time do you think they truly have for you?

👉That’s why Direct Primary Care exists.

Healthcare doesn't have to feel like the DMV. Follow Direct Doctors and we'll show you what the alternative looks like.

03/07/2026
03/06/2026

Still stuck with rushed appointments?

Primary care does not have to feel that way.

At Direct Doctors you receive:

✔ Direct access to your physician
✔ Longer, unhurried visits
✔ Same-day or next-day scheduling

Serving 1,800+ Rhode Island patients since 2014 in an all-physician practice.

Now accepting new patients in East Greenwich and Riverside.
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She didn't walk away from traditional practice by chance. Her decision was to devote more time to her patients and foste...
03/04/2026

She didn't walk away from traditional practice by chance.

Her decision was to devote more time to her patients and foster relationships free from insurance limitations.

Dr. Erin Kunkel is board-certified in Gynecology and Obesity Medicine, as well as a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner based in East Greenwich.

She became part of Direct Doctors, a physician-led, evidence-based practice to prioritize her patients, offering longer, more meaningful visits and tailored care.

Proudly serving Rhode Island since 2014.
Over 1,800 patients have placed their trust in Direct Doctors.

Now accepting new patients.
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What if your doctor actually knew you — not just your chart?That's the question Dr. Lauren Hedde asked herself when she ...
03/02/2026

What if your doctor actually knew you — not just your chart?

That's the question Dr. Lauren Hedde asked herself when she left traditional medicine to start something different.

In 2014, she opened Direct Doctors in East Greenwich, RI with a radical idea: what if primary care didn't have to be rushed, transactional, or impersonal?

No waiting rooms. No 8-minute appointments. No insurance company telling your doctor what care you deserve. Just a real relationship between you and a doctor who has time to listen.

A decade later, we have 5 doctors across 2 Rhode Island locations — and that original mission hasn't changed.

We built this practice for patients who are tired of feeling like a number. ❤️

Follow us for a different kind of healthcare.

Address

2639 South County Trail
East Greenwich, RI
02818

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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