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Originally Posted by Dan9871
Dr. Garcia is a specialist. Concierge Care is mostly, maybe exclusively, used by primary care physicians. My guess is, total speculation on my part actually, if primary care physicians could get the hourly rates that specialists do they would not be setting up Concierge Care based businesses.
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Actually, that's an apples and oranges comparison. Most specialists are procedurally based, while primary care is volume based. The main driving factor for concierge care is regulation and overhead. If we had converted our practice to concierge care with no participation in any insurance, our 3.6 million/year overhead would have dropped to under 750K. But the economy of the area would never have supported concierge care. Besides, I really don't like the concept---it wreaks of money grubbing rather than quality care.