Guides

Insights on concierge medicine, direct primary care, and personalized healthcare.

What Happens When Your Concierge Doctor Retires, Sells, or Joins a Network?

You paid for a relationship with a specific doctor. Then a letter arrives saying that doctor is retiring, selling the practice, or joining a national network.

Jul 18, 2026

What Happens When Your Concierge Doctor Retires, Sells, or Joins a Network?

Concierge Medicine for Employers: How a 50-Employee Contract Works

Covering 50 employees at $100 per employee per month costs $60,000 per year . That is a real published employer rate from Elizabeth Story MD , a physician-led membership practice in Fort Worth, Texas.

Jul 13, 2026

Concierge Medicine for Employers: How a 50-Employee Contract Works

Your First 90 Days With a Concierge Doctor: What Actually Happens After You Join

The first month may move a bit slower than you expect with a new concierge doctor. A medical-record request can take up to 30 calendar days under federal rules, with one additional 30-day extension in some cases.

Jul 11, 2026

Your First 90 Days With a Concierge Doctor: What Actually Happens After You Join

Concierge Specialty Care: When Concierge Medicine Goes Beyond Primary Care

Seeing a specialist in America now takes weeks. A new cardiology patient waits an average of 33 days for an appointment.

Jul 2, 2026

Concierge Specialty Care: When Concierge Medicine Goes Beyond Primary Care

Sollis Health Cost and the Rise of Concierge Emergency Care

Sollis Health runs members-only urgent care style medical centers in New York, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and South Florida. A member can walk into a flagship at 2 a.

Jun 30, 2026

Sollis Health Cost and the Rise of Concierge Emergency Care

What 'FDA Cleared' Actually Means for a Health App

In June 2026, an AI tool called UpDoc announced it was "FDA cleared." [6] News coverage described it as an artificial intelligence that could act as a "concierge doctor.

Jun 29, 2026

What 'FDA Cleared' Actually Means for a Health App

Types of Primary Care: DPC, Concierge, Traditional, and Urgent Care Explained 2026

When most people say "primary care," they picture the family doctor's office that takes your insurance and runs 30 minutes behind. In 2026, that office is only one of at least four different ways to get primary care.

Jun 28, 2026

Types of Primary Care: DPC, Concierge, Traditional, and Urgent Care Explained 2026

Why Doctors Are Starting Direct Primary Care Practices Instead of Working in Corporate Medicine

In 2024, only 42.2% of US doctors worked in a private practice owned by physicians, down from 60.

Jun 25, 2026

Why Doctors Are Starting Direct Primary Care Practices Instead of Working in Corporate Medicine

AI Medical Practice Administration Software: A 2026 Field Guide

Recently Prosper AI just raised $30 million to build software for doctor offices to help eliminate front end office work. From answering phones with voice agents to scheduling appointments.

Jun 24, 2026

AI Medical Practice Administration Software: A 2026 Field Guide

What Is MD2? Cost and the 50-Families Model

MD² (written MD2, pronounced "MD squared") is a national concierge medicine company whose physicians each care for only 50 families at a time, in exchange for one of the highest membership fees in private medicine.[1] It opened the first concierge medical office in the United States in Seattle in 1996, and it still sits at the top of the market, with more than 30 practices in cities from Seattle to New York.

Jun 24, 2026

What Is MD2? Cost and the 50-Families Model

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