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AAPP’s Tom Blue quoted - [read the article]

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AAPP Summit on Concierge Medicine
[for full conference agenda, please click here]
[for speaker biographies, please click here]

If you have any questions about the event, please call 251-978-5494.
Please note that the conference begins on Friday, so plan to arrive early on Friday and depart on Sunday morning. Space at this event [...]

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 [...]

Retainer-Based Physicians: Characteristics, Impact, and Policy Considerations

A study conducted by staff from NORC at the University of Chicago and Georgetown University for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (with contributions by AAPP member physicians)
available as .PDF here

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.  

Teach a Man to Fish… And He’ll Still Want You to Fish for Him Tomorrow

Brian Korte is an artist pioneering a new and fun medium. He builds mosaics – big pictures – out of LEGOs. You can find him in the Guinness Book of World Records in connection with his craft.
I can remember the time he told me he was working on his first one – a [...]

Help Your Visitors to Sniff Around Your Web Site

You know when a web site isn’t working for you. The beauty of the web is that you don’t have to tolerate it for more than a second before you’re gone… on to another site that better meets your needs.
But what actually happened on that site you abandoned? Maybe it just didn’t offer what [...]

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 [...]

2009 Study of Concierge Medicine Practice Models Encourages Growth Into Primary Care Again

ATLANTA, GEORGIA | February 1st, 2010
The Concierge Medicine Research Collective, an independent health care research center based in Atlanta, GA has released a 12-month summary of its survey results of the concierge medicine marketplace. The study concluded that at the end of 2009:
Over 66% of current U.S. concierge physicians operating practices today are internal medicine [...]