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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]What is "concierge service" at a physician's office?  Is there actually a price you can pay to be a VIP?  With preferential treatment?[/b]

All the other outsourcing -  do what works for you!

But if "concierge service" means paying a special fee so that you can oust some other sick person from having a prime appointment slot, that's not cool.  Not blaming you, OP, but I am blaming the physician who set this up.  And I sure hope I'm wrong.[/quote]

yes and its getting VERY popular with the area pediatric practices...not sure how i feel about it[/quote]

It is very popular BECAUSE people are trying to treat the doctor's office like an ER.  THAT is not cool.

Everyone I know has left practices who allow sick people to walk in, because even fi they try to charge a fee, the sick people don't stop trying to have "walk in" service.  here's a hint, pick up the phone like the rest of us.  Because I'm not waiting in a doctor's office, with sick people coughing all over me, for hours while you decide to walk in.  YOU ruin it for EVERYONE, but don't have enough brains to figure that out.

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And who is this "YOU" you are referring to?  Because I've not read anything in this thread advocating not making an appointment.  Of course everyone should make an appointment.  [b]But I stand by saying "not cool" to allowing patients paying a special fee have, for example, the coveted morning slots, while the minions make do with whatever they can get[/b].[/quote]

To clarify this is NOT what a concierge practice does.  A "concierge" doctor or practice sees ONLY concierge patients.  Meaning every single patient in that practice pays a yearly fee to have access to their doctor in a way a regular practice doesn't offer.  They typically have a small number of patients and only schedule 1 patient per hour so the patients never have to wait and can spend plenty of time asking all their questions etc.  There is no such thing as a practice where some patients get preferential treatment over other patients because they pay an extra fee.

This is also not the same as a doctor who just doesn't accept insurance.  A lot of pediatricians are going that route because pediatricians are the worst paid of all physicians.  Insurance reimburses next to nothing so a lot of them have just stopped accepting insurance but again that is for ALL patients in the practice or sometimes just ALL patients with certain insurance but it's illegal to take the same insurance from 1 patient but not accept it from another.  Physicians also have to charge all patients in their practice the same amount, you can't charge one patient less than another for the same service.[/quote]

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