Fed Up with the Rat Race? Try a New Type of Practice: The pros and cons of concierge practice, micropractice, direct primary care, and contract work.April 18, 2024
Alternative practice forms are luring doctors who are tired of racing through patient visits, fighting for insurance reimbursement, and toiling over paperwork. Instead, they’re considering settings where they can be more in control of their time and are potentially able to have a more rewarding day. |
Seeking More Revenue? Change Your Patient Mix: How to attract patients with better-paying insurance and use concierge services to boost your bottom line.March 4, 2024
Trying to increase your medical practice profits is a challenge. One strategy that is often successful is to modify your patient mix, according to practice management professionals. “Improvement in patient mix is in many ways about improving payer mix,” said Stewart Gandolf, MBA, CEO of Healthcare Success, a healthcare marketing company, and co-author of Cash-Pay Healthcare: How to Start, Grow, and Perfect Your Business. “If you just see whoever comes through your door, it’s hard to make changes. In most cases, you can change your payer mix without dropping your existing patient base.” |
Houston Internist and Artist, Cynthia Williams, MD Donates 100% of Art Sale Proceeds Through January 2024 to Houston Nonprofit Care Partners--Dementia Care DivisionNovember 28, 2023
“The joy I see on the faces of older patients who can suddenly explore with color and paint their emotions is inspiring. Many of the people I work with have never held a paintbrush before, but the colors and that tactical feel of moving the paint around is a sensory experience that can bring forth not only happiness, but often memories,” says Williams. “I am hoping to raise both money and awareness through my art sales to support Care Partners important work of providing support, education, resources, and respite to family caregivers and quality care to individuals living with memory loss, Alzheimer’s, or dementia.” |
Inside and Out: Pasadena internist cares about head-to-toe healthMay 11, 2023
De Beixedon’s practice is a part of Concierge Choice Physicians, a concierge program of a few hundred doctors across the United States. Concierge doctors are more accessible than traditional primary care physicians, offering services that are not available in a regular office. “What the concierge practice allows you to do is it gives you the time that was available 20 years ago and the technology that’s available today, so you can make the medical practice of the future,” de Beixedon said. |
Houston Internist and Artist, Cynthia Williams, MD, Uses Art to Fundraise for and to Connect with Older People and Those Living with DementiaConcierge Choice Physicians (CCP), the nation’s leading full-service concierge medical service provider, proudly announces their client, local physician and artist Cynthia Williams, MD, is raising money to support seniors, older people in care facilities and those suffering from dementia by donating 100% of the proceeds from her art sales to Care Partners Texas. This fundraising effort is currently in place through the end of January 2023.
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St. Louis Heart & Vascular partners with Concierge ProviderDecember 14, 2020
Saint Louis Heart and Vascular announced the addition of Concierge Choice Physicians' Hybrid Choice program, according to a May 18 press release. |
How membership medicine fits into a post-COVID medical practiceFinally, 2020 has come to end, and though there appears to be a light at the end of the tunnel, there is still plenty of work to be done.
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App-Based Concierge Doctors Are Booming in the Age of CoronavirusMarch 22, 2020
“We doctors are just a tap away,” says Dr. Nate Favini, a doctor in a video message to the members of an app-based concierge medical care company, Forward. “If you’re experiencing any symptoms, use the tool in our app; our coronavirus assessment tool... |
Concierge medicine may be the future of family healthcareJanuary 8, 2020
If you’ve ever had to wait a while to see your family physician only to be rushed through the appointment, you know how frustrating it can be. That’s why more people and businesses are opting for customized care..... |
Concierge sustained my practice during COVID-19November 2, 2020
As the owner of one of the last remaining private primary care practices in the Raleigh area, I was no stranger to the business end of medicine. Maintaining a successful, secure practice while trying to deliver the kind of personalized medicine that is critical to good patient care was a challenge few private doctors in my area could sustain. Remaining in full control of my practice was important to me, and while I wanted to explore every option, I didn’t want to be reckless with a practice and patient base I spent years caring for and cultivating. Then I learned about Concierge Choice Physicians’ hybrid approach to membership medicine. |
Is Small Better? Physicians Discuss the Ups and Downs of Solo PracticeDecember 11, 2019
Lisa Egbert, MD, can't think of a reason why she'd ever leave her solo practice. It's an ironic twist, given that when she first started, it was the last thing she wanted. She had 6-month-old twins and was just out of a tough residency... |
Before you pay extra to join a concierge medical practice, consider these questionsOctober 22, 2019
If you want to see your primary care physician the same day you call for an appointment, you may have to pay for it. A small but growing number of doctors are moving into concierge medicine... |
Putting Patients First By Letting Patients GoJune 9, 2019
Like many primary care physicians in this health care marketplace, I found myself operating on a hamster wheel of volume care, seeing more and more patients and spending less and less time with them... |
Best of both worlds: Hybrid concierge medicine can be a long-term patient care solution for practicesMay 24, 2019
The one-to-one relationship between physician and patient often takes a back seat in today’s demanding healthcare environment, in which administrative burdens, efficiency and volume can take precedence over individual care... |