Why are some concierge medical practices charging much higher annual fees?
Many of these practices include all visits with the physician, so they have to include the potential costs of multiple visits per year for each patient even if they might not be needed. Some include an “executive physical” and possibly also multiple tests in the annual fee (see related questions below). Some of these concierge physicians will accompany their patients to specialist visits or go to a patient’s workplace to provide care, and this requires having a much more limited number of patients so that a higher annual fee is required to make it financially viable. I will not do either of these things but will be very involved in discussing a patient’s care with any specialist that may be involved.
