Your DPC Tech Stack Just Got Simpler: Get One Platform for Memberships, Payments, and Care with Elation
The Direct Primary Care movement is no longer emerging — it’s accelerating. With recent legislation like the Primary Care Enhancement Act legitimizing DPC memberships as qualified HSA expenses, the model is entering a new phase of scale and adoption.
This is a win for clinicians and patients. As the membership movement grows, the operational demands have never been clearer: practices require a seamless, efficient, modern technology platform to manage clinical care, membership accounts, and payments, all in one. However, many practices still cobble together a patchwork of tools in order to support their clinical, operational, and financial goals comprehensively,creating complexity, increasing administrative burden, and adding to financial strain.
Elation has always been built for primary care first with clinical excellence at its core, alongside basic membership management and payment processing. Now, we’ve enhanced our platform further to support the membership model even better by adding the robust functionality practices need to manage all of the clinical care, billing, and payments in one unified system.
For DPC practices seeking simplicity without compromise, Elation is now the single platform that supports both the clinical workflow and the operational needs of membership-based care.
Elation’s Vision: One Clinical-First Platform for the Entire DPC Practice
At Elation, we believe technology should strengthen the clinician-patient relationship — not distract from it. Today, nearly 1,500 DPC practices across the country trust Elation. We are committed to being the most modern, affordable, and simple platform for membership-based primary care.
That’s why we’re announcing new enhancements that bring your clinical, financial, and operational workflows together — to reduce complexity, contain operational costs, and ensure you get paid reliably, all within one seamless platform.
New Enhancements: A Simpler, More Reliable Financial Backbone for DPC
We designed this set of improvements around what matters most to DPC practices: financial confidence, predictable cash flow, and less administrative work.
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ACH Payment Support: DPC margins matter. With ACH integrated directly into Elation, you can now offer low-cost, flexible payment options — reducing processing fees and improving revenue stability without a third-party system. ACH is now fully supported within our Membership Management solution.
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Patient Self-Enrollment: Growth depends on frictionless onboarding. Patients can now sign up through a streamlined, self-serve enrollment experience that captures all required data and payment information up front. New enrollments appear directly in your Membership Report, ready for staff activation — reducing back-and-forth admin and accelerating membership growth.
Purpose-Built for DPC, Continuously Evolving With You
Elation remains the only clinical-first, AI-powered EHR designed to mirror the way primary care clinicians think, work, and engage with patients. Our goal is simple: automate the administrative weight so you can focus on relationships and outcomes.
From the very start, our design process has been rooted in co-creation with real-world practices, listening closely to how clinicians manage care, finances, and operations. We are already working on our next wave of enhancements that are meant to reflect the real-world needs of fast-growing DPC practices. These updates are focused on providing deeper operational insights, more flexible membership and billing workflows, and intelligent, AI-powered support that reduces cognitive burden — all while preserving the clinical integrity and patient trust that are central to primary care.
The Next Chapter of DPC Will Be Defined by Simplicity — Not Software Sprawl
Direct primary care is strongest when clinicians have time, relationships are protected, and operations “just work.” Elation’s role is to provide that invisible infrastructure — not another dashboard, not another vendor — but a unified system that keeps your practice sustainable and your clinical excellence front and center. Your memberships, payments, and clinical workflows can now live in one seamless, clinical-first platform.
Ready to simplify your practice and accelerate your membership growth?