Concierge Medicine

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

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