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Paying for Enhanced Service

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  • Justin Ko
  • Hector Rodriguez
  • David Fairchild
  • Angie Rodday
  • Dana Safran

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Background: Concierge medical practice is a relatively new and somewhat controversial development in primary-care practice. These practices promise patients more personalized care and dedicated service, in exchange for an annual membership fee paid by patients. The experiences of patients using these practices remain largely undocumented. Objective: To assess the experiences of patients in a concierge medicine practice compared with those in a general medicine practice. Methods: Stratified random samples of patients empanelled to each of the four doctors who practice at both a general medicine and a concierge medicine practice separately situated at an academic medical center were drawn. Patients were eligible for the study if they had a visit with the physician between January and May 2006. The study questionnaire (Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Clinician and Group Survey, supplemented with items from the Ambulatory Care Experiences Survey) was administered by mail to 100 general medicine patients per physician (n=400) and all eligible concierge medicine patients (n=201). Patients who completed the survey and affirmed the study physician as their primary-care physician formed the analytic sample (n=344) that was used to compare the experiences of concierge medicine and general medicine patients. Models controlled for respondent characteristics and accounted for patient clustering within physicians using physician fixed effects. Results: Patients’ experiences with organizational features of care, comprising care co-ordination (p > 0.01), access to care (p > 0.001) and interactions with office staff (p > 0.001), favored concierge medicine over general medicine practice. The quality of physician-patient interactions did not differ significantly between the two groups. However, the patients of the concierge medicine practice were more likely to report that their physician spends sufficient time in clinical encounters than patients of the general medicine practice (p > 0.003). Conclusion: The results suggest patients of the concierge medicine practice experienced and reported enhanced service, greater access to care, and better care co-ordination than those of the general medicine practice. This suggests that further study to understand the etiology of these differences may be beneficial in enhancing patients’ experience in traditional primary-care practices. Copyright Adis Data Information BV 2009

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  • Justin Ko & Hector Rodriguez & David Fairchild & Angie Rodday & Dana Safran, 2009. "Paying for Enhanced Service," The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, Springer;International Academy of Health Preference Research, vol. 2(2), pages 95-103, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:patien:v:2:y:2009:i:2:p:95-103
    DOI: 10.2165/01312067-200902020-00005
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