ConciergePhysicians

Here’s a new post from a concierge physician, whose blog link has been added to the Blogroll (see conciergedoc):

“Ironically, I’m in the midst of starting our own retainer model practice, from scratch.  It’s actually along the lines of a hybrid model, where I am seeing both concierge patients, as well as traditional PPO,Medicare patients.  This way, I hope to have a better balance between the economics of startup and the downstream benefits of a retainer practice.  So far, we haven’t started really marketing the practice. But we are getting some patient’s from jsut word of mouth. The area the practice is in is fairly affluent and people to have higher expectations of service, which is also a reason why I think my practice will eventually have demand. However, I agree with the people above… there isn’t a line waiting to join…yet.  Maybe next year I’ll be at the conference. I did attend last year and found it very useful. I made some good contacts, including you John.”