Concierge Medicine

Opening a new medical practice can be intimidating. Opening as direct care does remove some of the hassle.

For concierge medicine physicians, while the pandemic was difficult and demanding, their professional survivability was never in question.

The American Association of Medical Colleges now estimates a shortage of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034.

Will 2022 be the year concierge medicine shifts from niche solution to mainstream model?

My route to becoming a concierge physician wasn't traditional.

I was stuck and seeking a way out.

24% of concierge practices reported higher revenues in 2020 than any prior year.

But the reasons were very different from what we predicted

Why Bradford S. Pontz, MD, chose concierge medicine, and Specialdocs.

Why John Verheul, MD, MPH, chose concierge medicine, and SignatureMD.

Why Louis Malinow, MD, chose concierge medicine, and MDVIP.

Why Suzanne F. Turner, MD, chose concierge medicine, and Cypress Membership Medicine.

Why Nalini Mattai, MD, chose concierge medicine, and Concierge Choice Physicians.

Why Alan R. Morrison, DO, chose concierge medicine, and Castle Connolly Private Health Partners.

For me, launching a private membership practice proved to be an ideal solution.

Concierge medicine is simply better medicine all around — and I didn’t have to abandon my patients.

My gut response to fix things was to work harder, faster, and start earlier. But now I've found a better way.

Concierge medicine has allowed me to decrease my stress level from crushing and hopeless to busy but manageable.

Through this COVID-19 health care crisis, my concierge practice has sustained us.

How I transitioned my family practice to concierge medicine.

The benefits for physicians of membership-based practices

If you are in a membership medicine model, is working with payers the right way to go?

Far from being risky or ill-timed, my transition to concierge medicine has benefited both me and my patients in ways that continue to beautifully unfold.

For primary care physicians - already saddled with student debt obligations, volume-based performance demands, declining reimbursements, increasing administrative challenges, and overall burnout - the spread of COVID-19 has been a pressure test.

Physicians explain how a new practice model saved their careers.

How concierge medicine helped me provide better care to my patients