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Your Employer Just Offered Direct Primary Care. What Are You Actually Getting?

Employer-sponsored direct primary care can give you same-day appointments, longer visits, and direct access to a primary care clinician for little or no employee cost. Your health insurance still handles hospital care, specialists, surgery, advanced imaging, and other expenses outside the membership.

Aug 9, 2026

Your Employer Just Offered Direct Primary Care. What Are You Actually Getting?

10 Benefits of Direct Primary Care and the Trade-Offs to Know

Direct primary care memberships typically cost $50 to $200 per month. In return, patients get primary care from a practice that does not bill insurance for the services covered by the membership.

Aug 8, 2026

10 Benefits of Direct Primary Care and the Trade-Offs to Know

Retatrutide Expanded Access Is Open. Here Is Who Actually Qualifies

What is retatrutide? Retatrutide is an experimental weight-loss medication being developed by Eli Lilly.

Aug 6, 2026

Retatrutide Expanded Access Is Open. Here Is Who Actually Qualifies

Telehealth vs. In-Person Primary Care: When Is a Video Visit Enough?

A Mayo Clinic study compared in person medical exams with video medical exams. The study compared video-visit diagnoses with diagnoses made during later in-person visits for 2,393 patients.

Aug 6, 2026

Telehealth vs. In-Person Primary Care: When Is a Video Visit Enough?

Why Is Concierge Medicine Pricing So Hard to Find? NextMD Exclusive What over 6,000 Practices Reveal

Only 47% of concierge practices in NextMD's directory publish a fee that can be converted into a comparable monthly amount. Direct primary care (DPC) performs better.

Aug 4, 2026

Why Is Concierge Medicine Pricing So Hard to Find? NextMD Exclusive What over 6,000 Practices Reveal

What Happens When Your Concierge Doctor Refers You to a Specialist?

What Happens When Your Concierge Doctor Refers You to a Specialist? Your concierge doctor says you should see a cardiologist, neurologist, gastroenterologist, or another specialist.

Aug 3, 2026

Function Health vs. Superpower: Which Blood-Test Membership Is Better in 2026?

Function Health and Superpower are consumer health platforms built around broad laboratory testing. Both let members order more blood tests than they would usually receive at an annual physical, review the results in a dashboard, and receive written guidance without first asking a primary-care doctor to order every test.

Aug 2, 2026

Function Health vs. Superpower: Which Blood-Test Membership Is Better in 2026?

Function Health Secures $450M In Funding Led By General Catalyst

Function Health is a consumer health platform that gives members access to more than 160 laboratory tests a year. Its $365 membership includes repeat testing, a dashboard for tracking results, written explanations, and clinician review.

Jul 31, 2026

Function Health Secures $450M In Funding Led By General Catalyst

Concierge Medicine in Chicago: Costs, Suburbs, and the 2026 Market

NextMD lists 108 physician-led concierge and direct primary care practices with 194 verified doctors across the Chicago metro. Chicago proper accounts for 58 practices and 115 physicians.

Jul 29, 2026

Concierge Medicine in Chicago: Costs, Suburbs, and the 2026 Market

Your Doctor's AI Scribe: Why Your Visit Is Being Recorded, and What Happens to the Audio

Your Doctor's AI Scribe: Why Your Visit Is Being Recorded, and What Happens to the Audio Your doctor may start a visit with a new question: "Is it okay if I use an AI scribe to help write my note?" The tool may look like an app running on a phone or computer.

Jul 27, 2026

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