START-UPS: Converting to Concierge? Timing is Everything.
By Nancy Latady, MBA | CMT Contributing Writer | Owner/Principal, Latady Physician Strategies Originally Posted JUNE 18, 2013 – Before making the transition to a concierge or direct care practice,...
View ArticleUC San Diego Concierge Medicine Patient Stories
Personal, unhurried primary care with top physicians and five-star amenities Our Concierge Medicine Program offers personal, unhurried care with extended office visits and numerous amenities. We have...
View ArticleDirect Pay Primary Care Model Gains Importance In The Post-ACA Environment-...
By David Saltzman OCTOBER 12, 2014 - On this episode of ShiftShapers, we welcome Dr. Erika Bliss, President and CEO of Qliance, a Seattle-based pioneer in the Direct Pay Primary Care (DPPC) practice...
View ArticleBUSINESS: Franchise Players Keep Prices Low — Private Consultancies Enter...
BUSINESS | CONSULTING Concierge Medicine Consultants: Once Only Few In Number, Now Numbering In The High 30’s-40’s. By Michael Tetreault, Editor-In-Chief JUNE 17, 2014 - The competitive sea in the...
View ArticleMD² Expands, Granting Access to Two New World-Class Medical Institutions
Founders of concierge medicine offer their families direct access to UCLA and Cedars Sinai November 07, 2014 07:00 AM Eastern Standard Time BELLEVUE, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MD² International, the...
View ArticleTRENDING Story Today …“SPECIALDOCS: Why are some physicians chronically late...
By Specialdocs Consultants, Inc. Specialdocs provides expert advice, support, assistance, and legal counsel… all the essentials for a successful concierge medicine practice. Our comprehensive support...
View ArticleTRENDING STORY … on WSJ: Why concierge medicine will get bigger
By Elizabeth O’Brien | January 17, 2013 — Practices could shield patients from health-care turmoil … If you’ve joined a concierge medical practice, recent trends in the worlds of health care and...
View ArticleSIBERT, MD: ‘So doctors are sick of medicine: What can we do to fix that?’
Karen S. Sibert, MD | Physician | September 8, 2014 Dr. Sandeep Jauhar, a cardiologist, believes with good reason that many physicians have become “like everybody else: insecure, discontented and...
View ArticleSenate Bill 1033 (MICH.) — Passed 26 to 11 in the Senate: Don’t subject...
By Jack McHugh Nov. 7, 2014 - The House and Senate met one day this week, primarily so that returning members and newly elected freshmen could select legislative leaders for the 2015-2016 session....
View ArticleStates, Hospitals Urge DC Circ. To Allow ACA Subsidies
By Igor Kossov Law360, New York (November 04, 2014, 5:31 PM ET) – Eighteen state governments and the American Hospital Association on Tuesday asked the D.C. Circuit to rule that consumers shopping on...
View ArticleHow to Set Up Your Concierge Medical Practice Payroll System
DECEMBER 4, 2012 — {Sources: See Below} Running a concierge or private medical practice is a business model that usually requires more than one person. As a business owner, it will become quickly...
View ArticleILLINOIS: MacLean Center 2-Day Fellows Conference to Address Ethics in...
By Michael Tetreault, Editor NOVEMBER 12, 2014 - The MacLean Center, which pioneered the formal study of clinical medical ethics in the early 1980s, has the world’s largest clinical medical ethics...
View ArticlePrimary Care Physicians Need To Be More Like Financial Advisors … When was...
By TOM VALENTI Individual physicians and some medical groups like Qliance and Iora Health realize that value is not created by activity but by freeing those on the front lines to innovate and form as...
View ArticleHow does Direct Primary Care and Concierge Medicine work with High Deductible...
JANUARY 6, 2013 - HSAs complement DPC and concierge medicine and clinics in a variety of ways. Sue, who works inside a concierge medicine clinic in Washington State asks, “Many of our patients are...
View ArticleSTAFFING: Hiring Concierge/DPC Medical Staff Using Job Descriptions with...
By Michael Tetreault, Editor-In-Chief NOV 14, 2014 – Whether we like it or not, concierge medicine offices and direct primary care clinics are held to a higher standard of service and performance, not...
View ArticleHow much did it cost to “startup” your Concierge Medicine practice in the...
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View ArticleHealthcare.gov’s Shot at a Making Second Impression
The White House is hoping those turned off by the website’s disastrous debut will come back for its reboot. By Russell Berman Nov 10 2014, 12:59 PM ET - The new—and supposedly improved—federal health...
View ArticleAspen Ideas Festival 2015 Registration Opens Today, Spotlight on Health.
For Immediate Release Contacts: Jennifer Myers The Aspen Institute (202) 736-2906/jennifer.myers@aspeninstitute.org Anna Bross The Atlantic (202) 266-7714/abross@theatlantic.com Washington, DC,...
View ArticleMEDPAGE: “The Happy PCP, $400K/Yr and Home in Time for Dinner.”
By Jennifer Ferris , North Carolina Health News/MedPage Today Nov 7, 2014 [APEX, N.C.] — On a rainy Wednesday morning in the thick of fall allergy season, Brian Forrest, MD, disappears into one of the...
View ArticleFLORIDA: Are insurance companies practicing medicine?
By Crystal Britt CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS, NOVEMBER 14, 2014) - Brenda Brown of Cape Girardeau is a breast cancer survivor. Her diagnosis came as a real shock, but so did the costs. “My medical bills...
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