A concierge doctor is your personal physician, with a positive twist. It's a doctor who focuses on fewer patients so you get more time (30 to 60 minutes), access, and attention. Instead of juggling thousands, they care for just a few hundred, which means real relationships and proactive care.
Your doctor isn't rushing through appointments or glancing at a chart. They remember your history, your goals, and what's changed since your last visit. You get longer conversations, faster responses, and care that actually feels personal.
For you, it's the difference between squeezing your health into a busy system and having a doctor who builds their schedule around you.
A concierge doctor does everything your regular primary care physician does, but with more time, attention, and follow-through. You still get annual checkups, preventive screenings, and help managing chronic or urgent issues.
The difference is how it feels.
Instead of rushing through appointments, your doctor takes the time to understand your health history, goals, and day-to-day habits. You can reach them directly, schedule same-day visits, talk for an hour, and actually talk through what's going on without feeling hurried.
It's the same medicine you're used to, delivered in a way that finally puts you at the center.
Here's what you get:
In a modern concierge practice like PrimaryMD, this approach extends further through wearable technology integration, quarterly health reviews, and dedicated wellness coaching. This creates a complete system built around your long-term health, not just today's symptoms.
Concierge doctors hold the same credentials as any physician you'd see in traditional practice. They've simply chosen a different delivery model.
You're working with fully licensed medical professionals with identical training requirements:
What often sets them apart is experience. Many concierge physicians spent years or decades in conventional practice before transitioning, bringing deep clinical expertise shaped by thousands of patient encounters.
They've seen what works, what doesn't, and why the traditional model falls short for patients who want more than reactive care.
Beyond standard credentials, many pursue specialized training in areas that align with proactive, personalized medicine:
This combination of rigorous foundational training, extensive clinical experience, and targeted expertise in prevention positions them to keep you healthy, not just treat you when you're sick.
That's the standard we built PrimaryMD around.
While all concierge doctors provide enhanced primary care through smaller patient panels and longer appointments, they bring different specialties and focus areas to their practice.
Some specialize in comprehensive adult medicine, others excel at multi-generational family care, and an increasing number focus on performance optimization and longevity.
Here are the main types you'll encounter:
If you're managing multiple chronic conditions or complex health issues, internal medicine physicians bring the depth you need.
Their entire training focuses on adult health, understanding how different conditions interact, how medications affect each other, and how to coordinate care across multiple specialists. They approach your health as an interconnected system rather than isolated problems.
This specialization matters most when you need someone who can see patterns across symptoms, optimize treatments that don't work against each other, and prevent complications before they develop.
Family medicine takes a different approach, breadth across life stages rather than depth in adult medicine.
These physicians care for patients from newborns to grandparents, which makes them ideal if you want one doctor who knows your entire family's health history.
The advantage is continuity. Your physician understands not just your health, but your family's patterns, genetic predispositions, and how life stages affect everyone differently. They transition seamlessly from managing your child's development to your aging parent's chronic conditions.
A growing specialty treats health as performance infrastructure rather than illness management. These physicians work with individuals who've optimized every other area of life and recognize health as the foundation for sustained performance.
Instead of waiting for problems to develop, they use advanced diagnostics such as full-body MRIs, genetic testing, comprehensive biomarker panels to identify risks years early. Their protocols focus on hormone optimization, metabolic health, and evidence-based longevity interventions designed to extend not just lifespan, but healthspan.
Remember, choosing a longevity-focused practice requires careful evaluation, as not all programs deliver on their promises.
In practices like PrimaryMD, this approach integrates wearable technology and dedicated health coaching, creating a system that helps you maintain peak performance today while building resilience for decades ahead.
The question isn't which specialty is best. It's what aligns with where you are and where you're going.
Not sure which approach fits your health goals? Join the PrimaryMD waitlist to secure early access to personalized, physician-led care tailored to your needs.
Concierge medicine pricing ranges from $1,500 annually for basic direct primary care to over $20,000 for premium executive health programs. Most practices fall between $3,000 and $8,000 per year.
The range reflects service depth, not just access. Basic memberships provide enhanced availability to longer appointments, same-day scheduling, and direct communication with your physician.
Mid-tier programs add preventive care protocols and specialist coordination.
Premium practices layer in advanced diagnostics, dedicated care teams, continuous health monitoring, and comprehensive optimization protocols.
Here's how this breaks down across price tiers:
Understanding these tiers matters because price alone doesn't tell you whether a practice delivers what you need.
A $15,000 membership might include everything from genetic testing to dedicated wellness coaching, or it might just be high-end branding on basic concierge care
PrimaryMD sits in the premium tier at $1,250 monthly ($15,000 annually). Your membership includes:
Your health insurance remains essential. It covers specialists, procedures, hospitalizations, and prescriptions. The membership handles your primary and preventive care foundation.
Beyond the membership fee, consider what you're actually buying. Same-day appointments eliminate productivity loss from waiting weeks for care. Proactive monitoring identifies issues when treatment is simpler and less expensive. Direct physician access prevents minor concerns from becoming emergency room visits.
For professionals earning $500K+ annually, the question isn't affordability. It's priority. You've likely invested more in optimizing your business systems than in the biological system that determines whether you're around to benefit from your success.
The real calculation: can you afford not to invest in the infrastructure that keeps everything else running?
See exactly what's included in our premium approach. Review complete membership benefits.
The landscape includes diverse practice models, each offering different advantages for both physicians and patients. Some doctors operate independently, maintaining complete control over their practice, while others join established networks that provide infrastructure and support.
Here's how different concierge medicine platforms operate:
Some physicians run their practices independently, with full autonomy over patient selection, care protocols, and practice philosophy. You get consistency and direct accountability, but coverage during vacations or emergencies typically requires arrangements with other local physicians who may not know your history.
This model works best if you value a single, unchanging physician relationship and don't mind occasional coverage gaps.
Multiple physicians share infrastructure while maintaining individual patient panels. You have a primary physician, but partners provide coverage and can offer second opinions without external referrals.
The tradeoff is that your doctor's practice philosophy must align with the group's approach.
The advantage shows up in consistency. You're never without access, and any physician in the group can access your complete health profile.
Organizations like MDVIP and PartnerMD provide the infrastructure while physicians maintain clinical independence. These networks offer brand recognition, vetted standards, and sometimes travel coverage through affiliated practices nationwide.
You're betting on the network's quality standards rather than just one physician's expertise. This matters if you travel frequently or might relocate.
Some practices run both insurance-based and concierge tracks. Physicians split time between traditional patients and members, which can create scheduling constraints and divided attention.
The upside is lower membership fees. The downside is that you won't receive full concierge benefits if your physician continues to manage a large insurance-based panel.
Ask your physician directly how many total patients they manage, not just concierge members.
Companies provide executive health services directly to leadership teams, often through on-site clinics, travel medicine support, and comprehensive health management. These programs work well if offered through your employer, but you lose access if you change jobs.
Telemedicine-based concierge services emphasize virtual care, remote monitoring, and nationwide access without geographic limits. They scale well and offer flexibility, but lack the in-person diagnostic capability and physical presence that matters for comprehensive evaluations.
This model suits those who travel constantly and prioritize access over in-person continuity, though you'll likely still need local physicians for procedures and detailed assessments.
The practice model shapes your experience as much as your physician's credentials. Independent practices offer consistency but limited coverage. Networks provide infrastructure but standardized approaches. Digital platforms give flexibility but reduced physical care capability.
The right choice depends on what you value most: physician autonomy, consistent availability, travel flexibility, or comprehensive in-person care.
You've built systems that work. You've eliminated inefficiency everywhere it matters. You work with people who deliver, not people who waste your time.
Except in healthcare, where you're still waiting weeks for appointments, getting rushed through visits, and receiving advice that could apply to anyone.
That gap between how you approach everything else and how you manage your health isn't sustainable. Problems don't wait for convenient appointment slots. Performance doesn't maintain itself. And the consequences of reactive care compound quietly until they're unavoidable.
We built PrimaryMD because we saw this pattern repeatedly. Intelligent, driven people tolerating healthcare that doesn't match how they operate. They know something's missing. They just haven't found an alternative that actually works differently.
If you're ready to partner with physicians who treat your health as seriously as you treat your success, join the PrimaryMD waitlist and be the first to experience healthcare designed around you.
Yes, concierge doctors have full prescribing authority like any licensed physician. They often spend more time optimizing medication regimens and exploring alternatives.
Many concierge practices offer house calls, especially for premium memberships. This service is particularly valuable for elderly patients or those with mobility challenges.
Concierge doctors provide guidance during emergencies and coordinate with emergency services. While they don't replace emergency rooms for critical situations, they help determine when ER visits are necessary and follow up on emergency care.
Absolutely. Concierge doctors work within your existing specialist network and often have preferred relationships that expedite referrals and improve care coordination.
Most practices offer consultation meetings to ensure a good fit. They typically handle medical record transfers and coordinate the transition from your current physician.