January 24, 2013 9:47 AM |By Barbara Bronson Gray, RN, MN — If you have a primary care doctor or internist that you like and trust, you’d better sit down. Someday soon you may find out he or she is converting the practice to “concierge” or “private” medicine. […]
Myth #1: Concierge Medicine is just for the wealthy. Reality: This is no longer true. Many forms of concierge medicine cost around $150 per month, which is the price of a package of cigarettes per day, or a daily cup of Starbuck’s Frappuccino. Dr. Garrison Bliss in Seattle, […]
By Ed Sealover, Reporter | Denver Business Journal | Feb 1, 2013 |In a health care landscape dominated by increasing malpractice insurance costs, declining insurance reimbursements and shrinking time that doctors can spend with patients, more and more physicians are looking to direct primary care — otherwise known […]
Let’s face it—our current health care economy and landscape is confusing (and I am a doctor!). With the recent election, health care reform has been front and center as an issue that is important to Americans. The primary goal of President Obama’s health care initiative is to make […]
By Kirsten Stewart | The Salt Lake Tribune | Jan 13 2013 — Beth Hanlon grabs the stethoscope she keeps roped around the headrest of her car’s passenger seat and strides through the double doors of a Salt Lake City nursing home, her first “house call” of the […]
Concierge medicine allows for personalized care By Chris Warren –Late last fall Kathleen Fields woke up on a Saturday morning with what she reckons was the worst sore throat of her life. It was so bad, she says, that even the idea of speaking with a doctor was […]
By Evan Tuchinsky JANUARY 10, 2013 — According to a recent story in Businessweek magazine, around 17 percent of Californians don’t seek a doctor’s care because of the expense. Meanwhile, with physician shortages and challenging economic models, physicians aren’t always available to those who could afford them—insured or […]