New York City has more concierge doctors than any other city in the United States: 261 verified physicians across 152 membership-based practices. Dallas is second at 124. Chicago is third at 115. Number eight is Naples, Florida, a city of about 20,000 residents with more verified concierge physicians than Boston, Seattle, or Denver.
These rankings come from NextMD's national directory of 8,744 physicians at 6,185 verified concierge and direct primary care (DPC) practices, the same dataset behind our annual report on the state of private medicine. Fewer than 1 percent of the 1,105,148 professionally active US physicians practice membership medicine[1], and this article maps where they actually are.
Worth noting that we did not map all practices within the greater metro areas. These are just the cities themselves or a tight proximity to the city itself. This will account for why the homepage metro areas show slightly different numbers.
How the Rankings Were Built
Every physician counted here is verified by name at a practice with at least one MD (Doctor of Medicine) or DO (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine). The count covers concierge, DPC, and hybrid membership models. Membership practices led entirely by nurse practitioners or physician assistants are excluded.
Three methodology notes before the table:
8,269 of the 8,744 physicians map to a single named city. The remaining 475 work for multi-location networks or virtual-first groups the directory lists without one home city, and they are excluded from city rankings (NextMD directory data, July 2026).
Cities are counted as they appear in practice addresses. New York's boroughs count separately, which is why Brooklyn holds its own spot at number 18. Combined, the five boroughs hold 323 verified physicians.
City labels follow mailing addresses, which can extend past municipal boundaries. Per-resident rates later in this article should be read as directional.
The Top 25 Cities
Rank | City | Verified physicians | Practices | Median monthly fee* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 261 | 152 | $282 | |
2 | 124 | 53 | $208 | |
3 | 115 | 58 | $250 | |
4 | 99 | 74 | $179 | |
5 | 79 | 47 | $208 | |
6 | 76 | 31 | n/a | |
7 | 75 | 54 | $208 | |
8 | 73 | 58 | $262 | |
9 | 72 | 54 | $192 | |
10 | 71 | 49 | $175 | |
11 | 68 | 32 | $192 | |
12 | 65 | 37 | $150 | |
13 | 63 | 24 | $206 | |
14 | 61 | 31 | $425 | |
15 | 56 | 45 | $208 | |
16 | 55 | 52 | $208 | |
17 | 53 | 39 | $208 | |
18 | 52 | 18 | n/a | |
19 | 48 | 24 | $250 | |
20 | 45 | 17 | n/a | |
21 | 44 | 25 | $140 | |
22 | 42 | 25 | $171 | |
23 | 42 | 22 | n/a | |
24 | 42 | 17 | n/a | |
25 | 41 | 32 | $425 |
*Median entry-level fee among practices in that city that disclose pricing, shown only where at least 8 practices disclose. Nationally, 3,298 of the 6,185 practices (53 percent) disclose pricing, with a national median of $165 per month (NextMD directory data).
What the Ranking Shows
Texas has four cities in the top 10. Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio hold 366 verified physicians between them, more than the five boroughs of New York combined. Dallas gets a push from a single group: North Texas Preferred Health Partners, whose 42 physicians make it the largest single-city practice in the directory.
San Francisco's supply is concentrated. The city's 76 physicians work at just 31 practices, and 31 of the 76 belong to a single ultra-premium group, Private Medical.
The top 25 hold only 22 percent of the city-assigned supply. The other 6,447 physicians spread across 1,914 more cities or the suburbs surrounding a city. In total, 1,939 US cities have at least one verified concierge or DPC physician, 166 cities have 10 or more, and 1,257 cities have exactly one or two. Concierge medicine is more geographically distributed than its Manhattan-and-Beverly-Hills reputation suggests.
The Per-Capita Story: Small Cities Dominate
Measured against population, the list reorders completely. Here are the standout rates among the top-25 cities with a US Census population estimate[2]:
City | 2024 population | Verified physicians | Physicians per 100,000 residents |
|---|---|---|---|
Naples, FL | 20,168 | 73 | 362 |
Greenwood Village, CO | 15,288 | 37 | 242 |
Beverly Hills, CA | 31,027 | 41 | 132 |
Newport Beach, CA | 82,970 | 61 | 74 |
Boca Raton, FL | 102,238 | 55 | 54 |
United States overall | 340,110,988[3] | 8,744 | 2.6 |
Naples has roughly 140 times the national rate of verified concierge physicians per resident. The extreme case is smaller still: Portola Valley, California, a Silicon Valley town of 4,282 people, has 15 verified physicians, or about 350 per 100,000 residents.
Remember the methodology caveat here. Mailing-address cities extend past municipal lines, so a "Naples" practice may serve patients across Collier County. Even read loosely, the pattern is consistent: concierge supply concentrates where household wealth concentrates, in retirement destinations and executive suburbs, rather than in the biggest population centers.
Big Cities Rank Lower Than You Would Expect
Los Angeles, the second-largest city in the country with 3,878,704 residents[2], has 34 verified concierge physicians. Twenty-eight cities rank ahead of it.
The pattern repeats across the map:
Scottsdale (75) outranks Phoenix (63), a city nearly seven times its size.
Newport Beach (61) outranks San Diego (40), a city 17 times its size.
Naples (73) outranks Boston (45), Seattle (48), and Denver (44) with a fraction of their populations.
Part of the explanation is administrative: a metro area's concierge supply often sits in its wealthy satellite cities, which count separately. Los Angeles looks thin partly because Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and Newport Beach hold the supply under their own names. That fragmentation is itself the finding. Concierge practices set up where their members live, and their members disproportionately live in the enclaves.
What Membership Costs in the Top Markets
Median disclosed fees in the top 25 range from $140 per month in Denver to $425 in Newport Beach and Beverly Hills, a threefold spread inside the same ranking. New York's median is $282. Charlotte, at $150, is the least expensive top-12 market.
Seven of the 25 cities share the same $208 median, the monthly equivalent of a $2,500 annual fee. That is the single most common disclosed price in the directory, listed by 210 practices, 185 of them affiliated with the MDVIP network (NextMD directory data). Those medians describe entry-level pricing only. Full concierge pricing nationally runs from $3,000 to over $40,000 per year depending on tier, while DPC memberships typically run $50 to $200 per month. Our guide to how much concierge medicine costs breaks down what each tier includes.
Where Direct Primary Care Reorders the Map
Direct primary care, the flat-fee membership model that typically charges $50 to $200 per month without billing insurance, has a different geography than concierge medicine.
In San Antonio, 20 of the 49 practices (41 percent) are DPC, the highest share of any top-10 city. Richmond, VA is 45 percent DPC, Overland Park, KS 62 percent, and Asheville, NC 57 percent. Compare that with the wealth enclaves: Naples is 3 percent DPC, Boca Raton 4 percent, and Beverly Hills has no DPC practices at all (NextMD directory data).
The two models are solving different problems in different places. Concierge medicine follows concentrated wealth. DPC grows in mid-cost metros where a $75 monthly membership competes directly with insurance copays for everyday primary care.
Just Outside the Top 25
San Diego (40), Tampa (37), Greenwood Village, CO (37), Richmond (34), Los Angeles (34), Miami (33), Carmel, IN (32), Overland Park (31), and Asheville (31) round out the next tier.
One entry in that tier signals where the market is heading: St. Luke's University Health Network runs a 29-physician concierge program in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. When a regional hospital system fields one of the ten largest concierge rosters in the country, membership medicine has moved well past its boutique origins.
What This Means If You Live in One of These Cities
Supply concentration cuts both ways for patients. In Naples or Scottsdale, you can compare dozens of practices on price and specialty before choosing. In Los Angeles or Phoenix, the listed supply is thinner than the city's size implies, and the practice you want may sit in a neighboring city.
If you are new to the model, start with what concierge medicine is and how it differs from DPC. From there, the practical step is checking which of the 8,744 verified physicians practice near you.
FAQ
Which US city has the most concierge doctors?
New York City, with 261 verified concierge and DPC physicians across 152 practices. Counting all five boroughs together, New York holds 323 verified physicians. Dallas is second among individual cities with 124.
Which city has the most concierge doctors per person?
Among cities with at least 15 verified physicians, Naples, Florida has the highest rate: 73 physicians for 20,168 residents, roughly 362 per 100,000. The national rate is 2.6 verified concierge physicians per 100,000 residents.
How many US cities have at least one concierge or DPC doctor?
1,939 cities have at least one verified concierge or DPC physician. 166 cities have 10 or more, and 1,257 cities have exactly one or two.
How much does a concierge doctor cost in the biggest markets?
Median disclosed entry-level fees in the top 25 cities range from $140 per month in Denver to $425 in Newport Beach and Beverly Hills. The national median is $165 per month among practices that disclose pricing.
How were these rankings compiled?
NextMD verified 8,744 physicians by name across 6,185 concierge, DPC, and hybrid practices, each confirmed to include at least one MD or DO. Physicians were assigned to cities by practice address, and 475 physicians at multi-location or virtual-first groups were excluded from city rankings.
NextMD maintains the physician census behind these rankings. You can search all 6,185 verified concierge and DPC practices by city, compare pricing, and view doctor credentials at nextmd.ai/search.
Sources
KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). (2025). Total Professionally Active Physicians. State Health Facts, September 2025 data: 1,105,148 professionally active US physicians. KFF State Health Facts: Total Professionally Active Physicians
U.S. Census Bureau. (2025). City and Town Population Totals: 2020-2024. Vintage 2024 population estimates for incorporated places, released May 2025. Census Bureau City and Town Population Totals
U.S. Census Bureau. (2024). National Population Totals: 2020-2024. Vintage 2024 estimate of the US resident population, 340,110,988 as of July 1, 2024. Census Bureau National Population Totals
Source Attribution
Data:
01_raw/Data/practices-master.csv+01_raw/Data/practitioners-master.csv(NextMD directory, July 2026 state)Methodology consistent with: how-many-concierge-doctors-are-there-in-the-us-2026-census (companion census piece, in review)
Market context: us-practice-census-estimate
Review Notes
Internal link count exceeds the 3-to-6 guideline deliberately. The top-25 table links each ranked city to its live city page. This piece is designed as an internal-linking hub for the city-page layer (the discovery layer stuck on page 3+ in GSC), so every ranked city gets its anchor. Flagging per the blog rules rather than silently violating them.
Fee medians are gated at n >= 8 disclosing practices to avoid thin-sample medians (Boston's median rests on 3 practices, so it shows n/a).
Fairfax, VA appears in the raw ranking but was deliberately left out of the per-capita table. Postal "Fairfax" addresses cover much of Fairfax County (1.1M+ people), so a per-capita rate against Fairfax City's 26,340 residents would overstate badly. The general postal-boundary caveat is stated in the methodology and per-capita sections.
Ties at 42 physicians (ranks 22-24) are ordered by practice count: Louisville (25), Bethesda (22), Fairfax (17).
When the census article (item 45) publishes, add an internal link to it from the second paragraph; the annual report link stands in for now.
Rankings basis: doctor-level city where present, practice city as fallback. Top-25 counts are identical on either basis.