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Would you pay a doctor a monthly membership fee or retainer to have access to them anytime? This direct pay for service model of medicine, dubbed concierge medicine, is a growing niche in U.S. health care where proponents praise the more personal doctor-patient relationships. 


Critics worry it sets up a two-tier class health care system or displaces patients. 

, professor of health care management at Wharton School, will join The Daily Circuit Wednesday to look at concierge medicine. 

, co-founder of AtlasMD, will also join the discussion. AtlasMD is a direct-pay doctor model, which requires patients to pay $50 a month to get unlimited visits and easy ways to contact their doctor directly by phone or email.


Some of the questions we will explore: What is involved in this model of care? Why do doctors choose to transition to it and what are the implications if this practice grows?

 before switching to concierge medicine (American Medical News)

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