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

Concierge Medicine for Women Over 40: Menopause, Screening, and Longer Primary Care Visits

For many women, healthcare becomes more complicated after 40. Sleep changes.

Aug 13, 2026

Concierge Medicine for Women Over 40: Menopause, Screening, and Longer Primary Care Visits

When Hospitals Go Concierge: Why Health Systems Are Selling Membership Primary Care

Hospitals are building a concierge model from within the hospital ecosystem. This article breaks down what six hospital/concierge programs actually include, what they cost, how hospital-run concierge care differs from an independent concierge practice.

Aug 11, 2026

When Hospitals Go Concierge: Why Health Systems Are Selling Membership Primary Care

An AI Renewed Your Prescription. Doctors Agreed 91% of the Time.

Utah has published the first outcome numbers from its experiment with artificial intelligence (AI) prescription renewals. Doctronic's AI recommended renewing a medication in 72% of requests.

Aug 10, 2026

An AI Renewed Your Prescription. Doctors Agreed 91% of the Time.

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?

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