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Direct Primary Care: Regulatory Trends
By Dave Chase, Contributor JULY 10, 2013 - Prior to the inclusion of DPC into the Affordable Care Act, these practices were on their own to ensure they were within the bounds of existing provider...
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Where Concierge Medicine Is Not Working, The Mid-West.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Michael Tetreault Tel: (770) 455-1650 editor@conciergemedicinetoday.com Where Concierge Medicine Is Not Working, The Mid-West. JULY 8, 2013 – The Concierge Medicine...
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CALIFORNIA: Private Doctors Provide Personalized Care, For a Price
By Pauline Bartolone July 11, 2013 – The N1 Health Center for Functional Medicine sits in an average looking corporate business park. But there’s nothing average about the doctor’s office inside....
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TEXAS: What Does Postponing Parts of the Healthcare Reform Law Mean to...
Shaun Kelehan MD of Wellness Practices of America offer comments on postponing parts of the Healthcare Reform and what it means to the Concierge Medical Practice Model and Employers July 11, 2013...
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OPINION: TV program shows how health-care system should be operating
DETROIT, MI | JULY 12, 2013 - The TV show “Royal Pains” is about a concierge medical service called Hankmed that is playing out in real life today. Doctors are converting to cash-only and concierge...
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HUFF. POST: Obamacare’s Silver Lining
By John Backus Managing Partner, New Atlantic Ventures Source: Huffington Post [JULY 12, 2013] — It is estimated that by 2016, 25 percent of independent practices are shifting away from the insurance...
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FORBES: Direct Primary Care: Consumer Perspective
By Dave Chase, Contributor No industry has a lower Net Promoter Score than the Health Insurance industry. Not cable companies. Not airlines. Having interviewed many consumers of Direct Primary Care...
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LEGAL: Concierge Medicine v. Direct Primary Care: Legal Issues
By Attorney and CMT Guest Contributor, Michael H. Cohen JULY 12, 2013 - Concierge medicine and direct primary care both raise legal issues, though they present different models in terms of how they...
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DPC JOURNAL: Before transitioning to direct primary care, explore these steps
By: Rachael Zimlich JULY 10, 2013 – The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) released a new policy on direct primary care (DPC) in March, defining the model as “a contract between a patient...
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PENNSYLVANIA: Erie medical office to go insurance free
By DAVID BRUCE, Erie Times-News JULY 13, 2013 – Izbicki Family Medicine has already kicked Medicare out of its office. On Sept. 15, the Erie practice will cut ties with all commercial health insurers,...
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MARKETPLACE.org: ‘More doctors offer concierge care’
By Lauren Silverman, Marketplace Friday, July 12, 2013 – Gus Bates had had enough. Enough standing in lines. Enough copayments. And enough of reminding his physician who he actually is. Then he heard...
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COST ANALYSIS: Are Costs of Memberships Among Concierge Doctors Rising?
Are Costs of Memberships Among Concierge Doctors Rising? By Staff Writer, Concierge Medicine Today(CMT) JULY 15, 2013 – As a concierge medicine or direct primary care medical practice physician and...
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EDITORIAL: Another reason to hate concierge medicine, patient retention.
By Michael Tetreault, Editor JULY 16, 2013 – While most concierge medical practices maintain a very high patient retention average of approximately 92%-94% (Source: ConciergeMedicineToday.com, March...
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Primary care doctors need 35 hour work weeks
By Leslie Kernisan, MD, MPH July 11, 2013 - Jeff Goldsmith recently opined on why practice redesign isn’t going to solve the primary care shortage. In the post, Goldsmith explains why a proposed model...
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EDUCATION: After attending a medical graduation, a new sense of optimism
By Steven Reznick, MD July 16, 2013 – I recently attended the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine graduation for the class of 2013. It had special meaning for me since this was the last group...
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Firing your doctor carries emotional weight
By Jessie Gruman, PhD July 10, 2013 - Last week, a friend told me that her mother had been fired as a patient by her primary care physician in a letter she received in the mail. “Our philosophies of...
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BUSINESS: How to create clear patient education materials
By Erin Marcus, MD June 30, 2013 Clear communication from doctors, nurses, hospitals and clinics is essential for patients to manage their health care effectively. But creating easily understood...
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Technology and medicine meet in iPills
By Clark Howard JULY 11, 2013 - We’ve entered the era where medicine is going into full sci-fi mode in the quest for better diagnostic and treatment tools. The New York Times reports HQ Inc.’s CorTemp...
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3 secrets my doctor doesn’t know
By Danea Horn July 11, 2013 Dear Doctor, I am a good patient. I’m organized, I know my health history and I’m particularly polite. I’ll thank you just for giving me bad news. I look up to you. I do see...
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TODAY SHOW Features CMT “TOP DOC” from Omaha, NE, Joel Bessmer, MD —‘Lots of...
By Meghan Holohan, TODAY contributor JULY 17, 2013 – When you have 16 kids — 13 biological and three adopted — losing track of a child can happen. Years ago, when the Bessmer family of Omaha, Neb.,...
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