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Concierge medicine and primary care: The differences
Author(s)Wayne Lipton, Logan Lutton
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.
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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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