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Launch Your Practice

If you are considering the transition into private medicine, the Academy is here to assist you in your journey. You will face a host of decisions that may be intimidating. What are my business model options? What do I do with my insurance carrier relationships? How do I find informed legal, marketing, and private practice management counsel? It’s our job to help you find the answers and connect you with other physicians who have taken the same path. [...]

Grow Your Practice

One of the keys to fulfilling the Academy’s purpose of driving the private medical movement is assisting private physicians in growing their practices. The success of your practice inspires other physicians to explore private medicine and informs patients of the birth of a new era in health care.   [...]

President’s Update

Dear fellow AAPP members:

I would like to take a moment to reflect on who we are, what we are doing, and why it’s so important. The American Academy of Private Physicians was founded on a simple premise: more time and better care for our patients while freeing doctors from complex payment schema and contracts by ‘third party payers.’ Simply put, we are held accountable to our patients, not to insurance companies. Full stop.

The organization, which began with the efforts of the indefatigable Jack Marque and John Blanchard, MD has evolved into a national voice: “Of the doctors, By the doctors, For the patients.” Our efforts are centered on making sure that physicians, patients, policymakers, and media all know that our movement represents a necessary path forward in the reform process. By elevating the nature of the doctor-patient relationship, we are in a unique position to define what the ‘future’ of primary care and all medical care could look like.

As ‘healers,’ we need to move away from the ‘Don’t just stand there, Do something’ model to the “Don’t just do something, Stand there” model. That is, medicines and procedures should not be a tool to use just because they exist. Rather, cogent and contextual thought should define the right thing to do. The private physician model is predicated on more time, more thought and less pills and procedures.

We are building the wellness model of the future and actively critiquing the circular illness-model. The common denominator that sets us apart is our desire to listen longer, ask more questions, and take the time to work through a complex problem in the spirit of healthy living and longevity.

We have a lot of work to do and we need your help. I am personally asking you, our members, to get your fellow private physicians involved. We will be revamping our web presence to generate more leads for your practice and create a certification platform for practices as well as vendors. I would like to personally thank Shelly Banyay and Tom Blue for their remarkable work. I hope to see you in Scottsdale!

In Health,
Jordan Shlain MD