1 In 10 Doctor Practices Flee Medicare To Concierge Medicine - Forbes - 0 views
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Brigham Narins on 30 Apr 13"The movement is across all medical disciplines with 6.8 percent of all physicians planning to stop taking insurance in favor of concierge-style medicine or so-called 'direct primary care.'.... "Already, one in five physicians is restricting the number of Medicare patients in their practice and one in three primary care doctors - the providers on the front lines of keeping the cost of seniors' care low - are restricting Medicare patients.... "Under direct primary care, doctors contract directly with patients to provide all of their primary care needs free of insurance interference at a price generally between $50 and $60 a month per patient. It's what the New York Times last spring called 'concierge for the masses' because it was much cheaper than the historically high cost of concierge medicine some Congressional investigators found to be $5,000 to $15,000 a year or more."