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WASH: Lawmakers get 24/7 Access To Doctor for $503 per year — i.e. concierge...
Since 2009, Congress Members pay a flat, annual fee of $503 for all the healthcare they receive. PLUS, the annual fee has rarely changed since 1992. Members of Congress do not pay for the individual...
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WASHINGTON: Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption plus, access to...
By JOHN BRESNAHAN and JAKE SHERMAN 4/24/13 — Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance...
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Why Concierge Medicine May Be Better Than a Large Physician Group
By Wayne Lipton MAY 9, 2013 – From time to time, I’ve shared letters and anecdotes about medical practice today from physicians I’ve come in contact with through our company. Many of these physicians...
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VIDEO LIBRARY: AAPS, Restoring Free Markets to Medicine
Restoring Free Markets to Medicine When the patient pays directly, the patient and doctor decide on the appropriate treatment NOT the government or big-insurance company. MARCH 18, 2013 – Opting Out of...
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Integrative Medicine: Solutions to Primary Care Crisis?
By Glenn Sabin, Co-authored by Taylor Walsh Reading the striking 80-plus-page report, Meeting the Nation’s Primary Care Needs, led by Dr. Michael S. Goldstein from UCLA’s Center for Health Policy...
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BECKER’S: Why Physician Supply is Dwindling (And How to Keep Yours)
By Helen Gregg | Becker’s Hospital Review May 10, 2013 - In the next one to three years, more than half of American physicians will cut back on patients, by reducing hours, switching to concierge...
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HARVARD REVIEW: ‘Health care should be practiced year-round, and even...
By Michael Fleming May 15, 2013 - Years ago, as a family physician in Louisiana, I made house calls. Certain patients were too sick or too hurt to get to my office. Sometimes a condition or injury had...
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TECHNOLOGY: Kansas’ Atlas MD develops software to help others manage...
By Josh Heck | Reporter | Wichita Business Journal May 14, 2013 – Dr. Josh Umbehr takes an insurance-free approach to providing medical care. It’s a concept that works for his business, and now he...
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DIRECT CARE: AAFP Recognizes Benefits, Creates DPC Policy
By Sheri Porter 5/14/2013 – Around 10 a.m. one recent morning, Atlas MD, a family medicine practice in Wichita, Kan., fielded a call from a frantic parent whose 14-year-old son had just been bitten by...
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The Anti-Aging Side of Concierge Medicine Boosts Patient Retention For The...
Concierge Medicine [and direct care] has evolved to more than just 24/7 care. More Internal Medicine and Family Concierge Doctor’s are taking a medical home approach — offering added-value services and...
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FAIRNESS DEBATE: Trend … Exclusive medical care, around the clock and...
Putting Your Doctor, or a Whole Team of Them, on Retainer By PAUL SULLIVAN April 29, 2011 - FIVE years ago, Steven L. Glazer, an internal medicine doctor in Norwalk, Conn., told his thousand patients...
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AAFP INSURANCE: ‘Is Concierge Medicine Right for You?’
By AAFP Insurance Program May 8th, 2013 | There are many career paths that a family physician can take. You can become employed by a hospital; you can open your own private practice; you can also find...
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AAFP Creates Policy on Direct Primary Care
MAY 15, 2013 - The AAFP recently created a document with frequently asked questions to accompany the Academy’s newly created policy on direct primary care (DPC), a model in which practices charge...
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Doctor to the 1% … borrows from concierge medicine, managed care,...
By Joseph Rago September 21, 2012 | Los Angeles, CA — The rich are different than you and me. Not only—yes, yes—do they have more money, but they’ve also heard of, and many have hired, Leslie...
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ETHICS: Concierge Medicine: So Many Questions
By Jennifer Webster Physicians explore their decision to practice concierge medicine. May 16, 2013 - Forbes reports that about 4,400 physicians now practice concierge-style medicine, a form of primary...
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EMR and TECHNOLOGY: MMR Global adds Concierge Doc to Board of Advisors
MMRGlobal Adds Concierge Medicine Specialist Jeremy Fine, M.D. and Pediatrician and New York Times Best-Selling Author Cara Natterson, M.D. to Medical Board of Advisors MAY 17, 2013 – OS ANGELES,...
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BECKER’S: 6 Statistics on Concierge and Direct Pay Physician Practices
By Heather Punke May 17, 2013 - The Concierge Medicine Research Collective recently released data from surveys of concierge medicine and direct pay primary care physicians conducted December 2009...
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MEDICAL HOME: Where patients are seen by teams of doctors and nurses
By Ankita Rao | KHN Staff Writer May 15, 2013 – Dr. Thomas Bellavia transformed his traditional medical practice in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., into a so-called medical home where patients are seen by...
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RESEARCH: 3 Year Analysis Takes Temperature of Concierge Medicine and Direct...
MAY 20 – 2013 | Atlanta, GA | The Concierge Medicine Research Collective, an independent health care research and data depository of the concierge and direct primary care industry’s trade publication,...
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Annual Analysis of Average Patient Wait Times Finds We’re Waiting Longer
Reblogged from Concierge Medicine Today: APRIL 12, 2013 | The average shortest time patients sit in a waiting room before seeing a physician increased by more than a minute from 2011 to 2012,...
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