{"id":22648,"date":"2024-04-01T08:20:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T12:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22648"},"modified":"2024-04-01T08:20:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T12:20:06","slug":"hospitals-cash-in-on-a-private-equity-backed-trend-concierge-physician-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22648","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals Cash In on a Private Equity-Backed Trend: Concierge Physician Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Phil Galewitz for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonprofit hospitals created largely to serve the poor are adding concierge physician practices, charging patients annual membership fees of $2,000 or more for easier access to their doctors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a trend that began decades ago with physician practices. Thousands of doctors have shifted to the concierge model, in which they can increase their income while decreasing their patient load.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/concierge-medicine-physician-practices-hospitals-private-equity\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/concierge-medicine-physician-practices-hospitals-private-equity\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Phil Galewitz for KFF Health News) Nonprofit hospitals created largely to serve the poor are adding concierge physician practices,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,12,21,20,200],"tags":[1218,1219,385,238,138,1021],"class_list":["post-22648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-direct-primaryconcierge-care","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-health-insurance","tag-concierge-physician-care","tag-direct-primary-care","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-nonprofit-hospitals","tag-private-equity-ownership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22649,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22648\/revisions\/22649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}