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The benefits of concierge medicine: Why both small independent practices and large hospital groups are flocking to itCould a care model that has been around for years, but has only recently begun to draw attention from large health systems, be a solution to many of the challenges that healthcare organizations face — including physician retention, patient experience and financial sustainability?
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How concierge medicine can be a triple win for practices, physicians and patientsApril 9, 2025
Concierge medicine, also known as membership-based medicine, has multiple benefits. It offers patients expanded, expedited and more personalized access to primary care, enables physicians to work unencumbered by the administrative hassles associated with insurance-based care delivery and generates an additional, recurring revenue stream for medical practices. During a March Becker’s Hospital Review webinar sponsored by Concierge Choice Physicians (CCP), Wayne Lipton, managing partner of CCP, discussed how a flexible approach to membership medicine can help practices address challenges related to revenue as well as physician recruitment and retention. Three key insights were discussed. |
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Why not launch a membership medicine pilot program? How a simple small-group trial yields big resultsMembership medicine is both highly successful and lucrative for healthcare organizations.
How do we know? Because Concierge Choice Physicians (CCP) is the industry leader in blended, or “hybrid” models, and large medical groups, hospitals, and institutes are our fastest growing market. We don’t say this lightly. Over the last few years, we’ve experienced tremendous growth in this sector. |
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Concierge Medicine and Healthcare Organizations: Dispelling the myths and misconceptionsJanuary 3, 2025
Concierge medicine has been steadily growing in popularity for more than two decades, especially within large healthcare organizations. Despite its increasing presence, misconceptions about how concierge medicine functions in these organizations persist. As a leading provider of a wide range of concierge models, it’s important to clear up these misunderstandings and explain how concierge medicine works, what it is, and how it can thrive within a vertically integrated healthcare system. |
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What Gratifies and Bothers This Concierge Physician: Bernard M. Davidoff, MD, shares the frustrations that led him to try a new form of practice and why he’s much happier now, despite some remaining struggles.September 6, 2024
Internist Bernard M. Davidoff, MD, runs Davidoff Medical from a large 100-year-old Victorian-style house in the center of Morristown, NJ, which he purchased about 25 years ago. He works with Concierge Choice Physicians, a company based in Rockville Center, NY, that provides resources and analysis to help doctors decide whether a concierge practice is viable and helps integrate the program into the practice. Here, Dr. Davidoff shares his experience – both pros and cons – of having a concierge practice, and offers advice to physicians considering this form of practice. |
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Houston Pediatrician Jeoffrey K. Wolens, MD, FAAP now offers the Pediatric Choice™ Concierge Program from Concierge Choice PhysiciansAugust 7, 2024
Concierge Choice Physicians (CCP), the nation’s leading full-service concierge medical service provider, today announced that Jeoffrey K. Wolens, MD, FAAP, a pediatrician with a private practice called “VIP Pediatrics” in Houston, TX has enrolled in the company’s Pediatric Choice™ program - an optional service that gives parents peace of mind with greater connectivity between doctor and parent. The CCP Pediatric Choice program is an optional program families can choose to join, similar to the CCP Hybrid Choice™ program for adults. Families who want more time with Dr. Wolens, greater convenience, and enhanced service and support from staff can join the program. Other families may elect to remain patients in the traditional practice. Parents decide the practice experience they feel is right for them. No families are dismissed. |
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Doctor retainer fees: LI patients pay extra to get better personal care, quicker accessJune 14, 2024
Long Island doctors are willing to personalize their approach and cater to patients' schedules — for a fee. Physicians are spending their weekends fielding calls, sorting through images of rashes and calling in prescriptions for shingles and ear infections. But care like that comes with more than a copay. This style of medicine — often called concierge or boutique care — uses retainer fees to support practices. Membership rates on Long Island range from $1,800 to more than $10,000 a year. These subscription payments allow doctors to cap their caseload. The model has gained momentum among private physicians and smaller practices. Large, hospital-run physician groups like the New Hyde Park-based Northwell Health and Mount Sinai Health System also are taking another look at concierge care in the wake of COVID-19. |
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Is your portal making you too available? Give your patients an option that works for everyone.June 12, 2024
Concierge Choice Physician client Anand P. Lothe, MD, discusses how his Hybrid Choice concierge program from CCP allows him to offer more time and an enhanced patient experience to those patients who want that, while continuing to see all patients in his practice. |
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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. |
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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.” |
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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.” |
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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. |
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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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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... |
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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. |
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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... |
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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... |
