Wayne Lipton

Direct pay medical practice models are sometimes confused with concierge care. But there are important differences to consider.

Concierge medicine and direct primary care both have membership fees, but that doesn’t make them the same. Here are 10 differences you should know.

The questions you should be asking, and the plans you should be making.

Is membership medicine a better choice?

Although far from perfect, private practices can learn something from the corporate approach to healthcare.

When managing a practice gets so tough that you think you may just have to retire early or sell your practice, try to think about what you mean to the patients you serve.

Physicians need to think seriously about what they are trading before they decide to become an employee of a health system instead of a private business owner.

There is a way that physicians-including employed physicians-can manage the effects of healthcare consolidations. 

Why would someone who has access to free, quality healthcare pay for healthcare?

Doctors should never be disincentivized from caring for their sickest patients.

If telemedicine is supposed to provide convenient and accessible care, why are so few using these services?

Medicare as rolled out its “direct primary care prototype,” but physicians should look closer at the model as it’s not quite DPC.

This healthcare expert believes concierge medicine is the future of healthcare due to its benefits for both patients and physicians.

In a culture where a single online negative review can sway patients from your practice, it's important to have a plan for dealing with negative comments.

Concierge medicine offers the convenience that patients get at urgent care clinics, and combines it with the quality care that a familiar physician can provide.

Concierge medicine can help physicians dealing with burnout in more ways than one. Here's are a few examples.

Keeping morale high is often difficult in medicine. Concierge medicine can help, according to this healthcare expert.

Concierge models offer doctors flexible schedules that remain financially lucrative and afford them more free time.

Don't make the mistake of starting an alternative payment program without doing your research first, warms a healthcare consultant.

Healthcare professional explains how concierge care can work for hospital systems and patients on a large scale.

A healthcare professional explains how concierge medicine can improve physician/patient communication.

Concierge medicine can benefit everyone and is not the high-end medical service some make it out to be, according to this expert.

By ensuring they have adequate face-to-face time with patients, concierge physicians are providing wholesome care.

Concierge medicine is one model a private practice physician should consider if finances become tight.

The practice of medicine is quantifiable in many ways, not just dollar value.

The uncertainties surrounding health legislation are going to mean uncomfortable times for physicians who want to map out their practice's immediate future.

Cardiology practices can avoid the headaches of today's healthcare system through the viable alternative of concierge care.

Physicians are being preoccupied with more and more requirements, which is unfortunate. Their time is precious, for many reasons.

Noncompliant patients could hurt physician quality scores under MACRA and reduce their compensation. How will that affect the doctor-patient relationship?

A new survey finds that disillusioned doctors are struggling to adapt to changing delivery and payment models. Hybrid concierge provides a way out.