Concierge medicine would benefit from healthier patients (vitamin D)

Concierge medicine generally provides all medical services for a flat fee

Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) also generally have a flat fee
In both cases healthier patients result in more profit.

Probably Concierge doctors will also be interested in profit resulting from vitamin D

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Concierge Medicine information on the web

• Concierge medicine Wikipedia
  • Also known as: retainer medicine, membership medicine, cash-only practice, and direct care
  • Many different forms and wide range of prices
  • 1. of patients per doctor ranges from 50 to 500+ (vs ~ 3,000 rypically)
  • Annual fees range from US $1.200 to US $10,000+ (as of 2023)
  • Sometimes just a fraction of the doctors patients are on concierge
  • about 5,000 US doctors provide a concierge service (out of 200,000 doctors)
• Pros and Cons of Concierge Medicine Wall Street Journal, Nov 2013
  • “More practices are catering to the middle class, with the goal of providing affordable care”

• http://conciergemedicinetoday.org/ huge website includes History, 2015 data,

• http://aapp.org/ American Academy of Private Physicians: a trade organization

• Physicians Abandon Insurance for 'Blue Collar' Concierge Model USNews April 2014

  • "About 6 percent of physicians were in concierge or cash-only practices last year – up from 4 percent in 2012, "
  • “We realized that insurance paying for primary care is akin to using car insurance to try to pay for gasoline,”
  • “It’s something that’s otherwise fairly affordable until you try to pay for it with insurance"
  • " . . . still strongly urge patients to take out high-deductible insurance for emergency coverage in the event of a catastrophe."

Expect that some high-end clients will be EXTREMELY interested in healthspan extension

Longevity and healthspan increased by Vitamin D, Omega-3, Magnesium - many studies

One example of increased profit due to Vitamin D intervention is for pregnancies

Healthy pregnancies need lots of vitamin D has the following summary

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Related information on VitaminDWiki

• Much higher hospital costs (ICU and pneumonia) if low vitamin D – Dec 2015

• Save 2 billion dollars annually in fractures if take Vitamin D and Calcium – Frost and Sullivan Sept 2013

• Can Vitamin D be a Cure to Health Care Sustainability (question mark) – symposium May 2014

• Health Care Systems will save money by introducing vitamin D

• More likely to report that productvitiy was effected by health problems if low vitamin D - 2012

• HMO Benefit and risk

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Vitamin D proven to prevent/treat MANY diseases

Intervention - Vitamin D contains many relationshop, such as the following

Intervention AND Breathing studies

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Intervention AND Cardiovascular studies

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Intervention AND Diabetes studies

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Intervention AND Pregnancy studies

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