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Montana physician happy with concierge practice after four years

By cmtdpcjournal on October 17, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

By Candace Chase/The Daily Inter Lake | Posted: Saturday, February 16, 2013 10:00 pm Dr. Doug Pitman takes calls from patients anytime and doesn’t mind consulting while on skis at Whitefish Mountain Resort. He even stops by their homes for consultations. “I’m on call all the time,” he […]

HOT TOPIC: Concierge Medicine ‘By The Numbers’ — Patient Abandonment, Shortage of Docs and Patient Care

By cmtdpcjournal on May 9, 2014 • ( 2 Comments )

“The Challenge For Concierge Medicine in The Years Ahead.” “To those who say concierge doctors are hurting the system by diminishing the number of patients we can care for, my reply is: if you keep doing the same thing year after year, you are going to get the […]

San Diego: ‘Concierge medicine is, at its most basic, a return to the age when doctors made house calls and were paid directly by the patients they treated.’

By cmtdpcjournal on December 18, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

By Paul Sisson Dec. 17, 2013 – Paying extra for better access to a doctor, often called concierge medicine, is growing in San Diego County. Experts say the reasons range from a long-standing dissatisfaction with traditional managed care to more immediate worries about a possible doctor shortage driven […]

JOHN GOODMAN: ‘Are We About To Face A Severe Doctor Shortage?’

By cmtdpcjournal on December 13, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

Published on Friday, 13 December 2013 05:40 Written by John Goodman “No, there won’t be a doctor shortage,” wrote Zeke Emanuel and Scott Gottlieb in The New York Times the other day. ObamaCare will weather that challenge just fine. How? Nurses and other paramedic personnel can substitute for […]

CUNNINGHAM, MD: ‘Why Vermonters cannot see their doctor easily. INFOGRAPHIC

By cmtdpcjournal on September 25, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Dr. Alicia Cunningham Releases Vermont Medical Infographic Graphically displays why Vermonters cannot see their doctor easily. About 400 people a week in Vermont are reading the 2 pages below top to bottom, so interest is high. The public really wants to know what is going on. South Burlington, […]

Direct Primary Care: Regulatory Trends

By cmtdpcjournal on July 10, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

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 regulations. The inclusion of DPC is very brief and leaves much to the […]

Forbes: Concierge medicine can be surprisingly affordable.

By cmtdpcjournal on March 27, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

By Cari Erickson | March 27, 2013 | As the ObamaCare law is phased in, health policy experts predict a growing physician shortage. Although ObamaCare did not create this shortage, it will worsen the problem. Many doctors are responding to the new law by retiring early or reducing […]

The days of the solo medical practice are waning, but some see positive aspects in the changes

By cmtdpcjournal on March 23, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

The Patriot-News, PENN Live March 17, 2013 | Dr. Scott Setzer knew when he chose to become a family doctor, he wasn’t going to make the money a specialist would, but that was OK. He didn’t go into medicine to make money –although, of course, that would be […]

AAFP: Primary Care Has Fundamental Role in Emerging Payment Models Says Health Care Policy, Payment Expert

By cmtdpcjournal on March 21, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

By James Arvantes — Robert Berenson, M.D., is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and an expert in Medicare and health care policy. He served as the head of Medicare payment policy for the agency now known as CMS in the late 1990s and as an assistant director of […]

Sally Pipes: Obamacare may put end to doctor-patient relationship

By cmtdpcjournal on March 4, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

By Sally Pipes, February 26, 2013 — Are the days of the traditional family doctor coming to an end? In the almost three years since Obamacare became the law of the land, more and more physicians have expressed concern about the future of their profession. Consequently, they’ve been […]