Tag: physician burnout

Direct Specialty Care vs Concierge Medicine: Care Without the Price Tag

The clearest way to understand this model is direct specialty care vs concierge medicine: you get the concierge-level time, access, and relationship, without the concierge retainer on top of your insurance. Direct specialty care lets specialists treat patients outside insurance and charge them directly, so patients get same-week access and upfront pricing, and physicians reclaim […]

Patient-Centered Direct Specialty Care: Personalized Medicine by Specialty

Patient-centered direct specialty care is a paradigm shift in how specialty medicine is delivered: care built around the patient, not the claim. It gives people more control over their healthcare journey and gives physicians back the time and relationship that drew them to medicine in the first place. Direct Primary Care and Direct Specialty Care […]

Specialists Are Business Owners Now

Specialist private practice ownership is no longer a fringe idea, it is the new reality. More specialists are walking away from the insurance treadmill that left them burned out and underpaid, and taking ownership of both their medicine and their income. For most of medical training, no one tells you the next chapter of your […]

10 Steps to Start Your Direct Specialty Care Practice

If you are wondering how to start a direct specialty care practice, the short version is this: about a year, ten clear steps, and no MBA required. I know because I did it as a physician in the traditional system, seeing 25 to 28 patients a day. I spent hours writing notes to satisfy the right billing codes, […]

Three Beliefs Keeping Specialists Trapped in Insurance

Most of the direct specialty care myths that keep good specialists stuck in insurance are not facts at all, they are inherited fears. If you are burned out, tired of doing more each year for less, and quietly wondering whether there is another way to practice, the first thing standing between you and that other […]