|Articles|May 13, 2020

Concierge medicine and primary care: The differences

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 sweeping changes in healthcare have spawned a number of alternative practice models, and several are membership-based. But just because models are built around a membership fee does not make them the same.

Here are 10 ways in which concierge medicine and direct primary care (DPC) membership models differ:

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