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By Andy Marso KHI News Service Sept. 8, 2014 TOPEKA — Wichita physician Josh Umbehr has never…

By Andy Marso KHI News Service Sept. 8, 2014

TOPEKA — Wichita physician Josh Umbehr has never understood the traditional model of health care reimbursement — the one in which doctors and hospitals fill out pages of forms to bill a patient’s insurance company for everything from a $3 test to a $30,000 surgery.

“You don’t have car insurance for gasoline,” Umbehr said in a recent phone interview.…

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Study Finds Concierge Medicine Significantly Reduces Healthcare Costs of Medicare

Study Finds Concierge Medicine Significantly Reduces Healthcare Costs of Medicare

BOCA RATON, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–With rising healthcare costs and decreasing physician and patient satisfaction, a new study showed that MDVIP(MD Value In Prevention), a personalized preventive primary care model, reduced Medicare Advantage healthcare spending by $3.7 million through a statistically significant decrease in hospital utilization. This study, conducted by Optum, is published in the…

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The Difference Between Concierge Medicine and Direct Primary Care

By Samir Qamar, CEO of MedLion, Posted on KevinMD.com on August 24, 2014

Direct primary care (DPC) and concierge medicine are rapidly growing models of primary care. Though the terms are used interchangeably, both are not the same. Such liberal use of terms, many times by even those within the industry, confuses those who are attempting to understand how these primary care models operate. As…

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Concierge Medicine Offers Viable Business Model in Los Angeles

Increasing pressure on physicians from insurance companies and government regulation is changing how your doctor conducts business. Staying in private practice is becoming more difficult and alternative models like concierge medicine and direct primary careoffer a way to provides excellent care and meeting the bottom line. The LA Times gives us a look into some of the choices they found to be…

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New Mexico Concierge Medicine

Concierge medicine and its brand of personalized care is sweeping the nation and New Mexico is part of the wave. The Abuquerque Journal featured Tom Murphy’s article on concierge medicine highlighting what New Mexico concierge medicine may offer the residents.

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Patients Pay for Exclusive Care

By Tom Murphy Associated Press

Over the counter cold-and-flu remedy: $5.99. Trip…

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Telemedicine and Concierge Medicine in Beverly Hills

Telemedicine and Concierge Medicine in Beverly Hills

LOS ANGELES, July 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — In today’s hurry-worry climate, who has time to visit the doctor? Fortunately new technology means you don’t necessarily have to see a doctor, with services such as the burgeoning telephone medicine offered by House Call Doctor Los Angeles. Breaking ground in the kind of telemedicine Los Angeles residents need and want, board certified internist Dr.…

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Elite Concierge Medicine Office Opens in Beverly Hills

Elite Concierge Medicine Office Opens in Beverly Hills

BELLEVUE, WASH. — MD², the most exclusive medical practice in the country, will open their newest office in Beverly Hills, CA in November 2014. Accurately credited for pioneering the concept of concierge medicine, MD² has locations across the country and is built on the philosophy that you have the total devotion and full availability of your physician.

“Indeed, there is a kind of magic that…

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Concierge Medicine Los Angeles: Bill of Health

Concierge Medicine Los Angeles: Bill of Health

For those willing to pay, concierge medicine promises the short waits and long visits of a bygone era Written by Joshua Tompkins  on 9/17/2013  for Los Angeles MagazineMy late father, a physician like myself, began his career as a family practitioner in Texas in the 1950s, when most doctors still made house calls. He switched to radiology shortly after I was born in 1971, but I can picture him…

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Concierge Doctor for Your Special Event in Los Angeles

Concierge Doctor for Your Special Event in Los Angeles

Concierge Medicine Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, July 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — In this season of special events, organizers of large gatherings must think ahead about the possible need for medical assistance. To provide superb large event retainer medical care, or concierge medicine, Los Angeles based physician Dr. Michael Farzam offers event planners his services and expertise to ensure the well-being…

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More Physicians Offer A Low Cost Concierge Medicine Program

Physicians Abandon Insurance for ‘Blue Collar’ Concierge Medicine Model Once the bastion of high-end specialists, more and more primary-care and family physicians are launching concierge practices for middle- and lower-income patients.

By Alan Neuhauser, April 1, 2014 for US News Health

No insurance? No problem.

A small but growing number of primary-care physicians has stopped taking insurance —…

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The Concierge Medicine Debate

The Concierge Medicine Debate

The Case for Concierge Medicine In the trade-off between more patients and more personalized care, growing numbers of physicians are choosing the latter.

Richard Gunderman July 16, 2014 for The Atlantic

Physicians go into medicine because they want to make a difference, and it is the daily opportunity to help patients that keeps many of them going. Yet today many worry that their contribution is…

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Concierge Medicine Gaining Ground Nation Wide

Concierge Medicine Gaining Ground Nation Wide

By David Pittman, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today

SAN DIEGO — Concierge doctors are spreading the word that it’s possible to operate a direct primary care practice, make a living, and avoid one of the biggest headaches for family medicine physicians — dealing with health insurance companies.

Multiple sessions at the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) scientific assembly informed…

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