We're not your ordinary dermatology office. Our top priority is focusing on the doctor patient relationship and providing a better overall experience. This includes easier, faster access to care with virtual visits and same-week in office appointments, fully transparent costs, and more attentive, personalized treatment.
Dr. Allison Goddard is a board-certified dermatologist with a passion for personalized patient care of the highest quality. As an expert in medical, surgical, and cosmetic dermatology, she’s the owner and founder of Maine Direct Dermatology, the first direct-care dermatology practice in Maine.
After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Goddard attended medical school at Saba University and was awarded the highest academic achievement awards, graduating top in her class. She subsequently completed her Dermatology Residency at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, where she served as Chief Resident. After residency, she completed a clinical fellowship in Cutaneous Oncology at Harvard with a focus on Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and melanoma.
Dr. Goddard has practiced at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, served as a Dermatology Instructor at Harvard Medical School, and provided dermatologic care to underserved rural areas in Tennessee, Montana, and Minnesota.
She is board-certified by the American Academy of Dermatology, of which she is a current member. She also completed the Applied Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice program through the Institute for Functional Medicine and participates annually in the Integrative Dermatology Symposium. In addition to her expertise in medicine and dermatology, Dr. Goddard is a lifelong learner interested in culinary arts, interior design, and human behavioral sciences.
Direct care is a progressive medical care model that focuses on the patient-doctor relationship rather than the insurance-payor-to-doctor relationship. We do not participate with any insurance or government healthcare programs. This model takes the middleman out of patient care, cuts through the layers of bureaucratic complexity, and allows us to provide good, old-fashioned medicine in modern times.
Doctors have more time to spend with patients because we are no longer feeling the rising pressure from dwindling insurance reimbursement, frustrating denied insurance claims for standard practices, or private equity firms dictating the time we spend with patients to keep our revenue machine trending up and staffing costs down.
In direct care, patients pay a reasonable fee, in full, for their care at the time of their visit and there are no surprise bills after the visit because we are not depending on insurance companies to approve the visit. All of this leads to a better experience for the patient and the doctor.
Yes. Dr. Goddard is considered an out-of-network provider for ALL insurance plans. This doesn’t mean that you cannot be seen by Dr Goddard, it only means that our office will not submit your visit to your insurance company for reimbursement.
Certain patients who have government insurance policies, such as Medicaid, are not permitted to be seen for non-cosmetic services due to government regulations.
We have options for you!
We keep it simple. Without third party payors, we remove the extreme regulations, administrative costs, and labor associated with contracting with insurance companies and government plans. That means we can pass that savings and extra time on to your care.
With skyrocketing healthcare costs, patients pay expensive insurance premiums yet still can’t afford care due to high deductibles and co-pays. To make matters worse, patients have no idea what their out-of-pocket costs are until they receive a surprise bill months later. With direct care, there are no surprise bills or statements that show up after the visit.
Patients with high deductibles or no insurance will likely find that our fees are significantly lower than what they are currently paying out-of-pocket.
Maine Direct Dermatology offers savings on prescription medications by getting creative. We can use a compounded medication formulary, direct medication dispensing in the office at wholesale prices, and other cost-saving options to get you the most affordable pricing on prescription medications.