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Private Doctor: What It Means and What It Costs in 2026

The average primary care doctor in the United States manages a panel of 2,000 to 2,500 patients and runs visits that last 10 to 15 minutes.[1] A private doctor is the structural opposite of that.

May 23, 2026

Private Doctor: What It Means and What It Costs in 2026

Commure Raised $70M at a $7B Valuation to Automate Medical Billing With AI

Commure just raised $70m at a $7b valuation. The company uses AI that automates more than 85 percent of the medical billing process for hospitals and doctors' offices.

May 22, 2026

Commure Raised $70M at a $7B Valuation to Automate Medical Billing With AI

Concierge Medicine in the Houston Metro: 2026 Market Report

1. Executive Summary The Houston metro is the sixth-largest concierge and direct primary care (DPC) market in the country, with 127 practices and 168 physicians listed on NextMD across a 7.

May 21, 2026

Concierge Medicine in the Houston Metro: 2026 Market Report

What Hims & Hers' Labs AI Launch Means for Concierge Medicine in 2026

On May 7, 2026, Hims Hers (NYSE: HIMS) launched Labs AI , an embedded artificial intelligence agent that reads a customer's bloodwork and explains it in plain language. The product covers 130 biomarker tests across 10 health categories, including heart health, metabolism, hormones, inflammation, and stress.

May 20, 2026

What Hims & Hers' Labs AI Launch Means for Concierge Medicine in 2026

What Aidoc's $150M Series E Means for Concierge Medicine

On April 30, 2026, Aidoc closed a $150 million Series E funding round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with participation from General Catalyst, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and Nvidia's venture capital (VC) arm NVentures [1]. The round brings Aidoc's total funding to more than $500 million [1].

May 19, 2026

What Aidoc's $150M Series E Means for Concierge Medicine

What $3,000 vs. Over $40,000 a Year Actually Gets You in Concierge Medicine: A 2026 Tier-by-Tier Guide

Concierge medicine in the United States runs from about $3,000 a year on the entry end to over $40,000 a year at the top. Many patients see one of those numbers in a marketing brochure or a friend's anecdote and assume the rest of the category is priced near it, when in fact the category is more like four separate products with different patient profiles, different physician workloads, and different things included in the fee.

May 18, 2026

What $3,000 vs. Over $40,000 a Year Actually Gets You in Concierge Medicine: A 2026 Tier-by-Tier Guide

What lower profitability in hospitals means for Concierge and DPC medicine

On May 15, 2026, CommonSpirit Health, the 137-hospital Catholic nonprofit system, reported a $578 million operating loss for fiscal Q3 [1] . The operating margin came in at -5.

May 17, 2026

What lower profitability in hospitals means for Concierge and DPC medicine

Concierge Medicine in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metro: The 2026 Market Report

1. Executive Summary NextMD lists 135 concierge and direct primary care (DPC) practices and 220 physicians across the Dallas-Fort Worth metro, the fifth-largest concierge and DPC market in the US and the largest single-state metro in the Sun Belt [1][2].

May 16, 2026

Concierge Medicine in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metro: The 2026 Market Report

What Parsley Health Going Nationwide Means for Concierge and DPC

On April 29, 2026, Parsley Health announced it is now in-network with most major United States commercial insurers, including Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, BlueCross BlueShield, Humana, and Centene. [2][3] The combined coverage spans roughly 150 million lives, a substantial expansion from the company's prior phased rollout that began in New York in 2023 through a partnership with Mount Sinai Hospital, followed by California.

May 15, 2026

What Parsley Health Going Nationwide Means for Concierge and DPC

Lorient Capital's PeterMD Investment: Profile of the Buyer and the Platform

On May 12, 2026, Lorient Capital announced a majority equity investment in PeterMD, a Vero Beach, Florida company that describes itself as the largest online healthcare clinic in North America. [1] Financial terms were not disclosed.

May 14, 2026

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