Point: The Retainer Model May Stimulate a Rebirth of Outpatient Internal Medicine Counterpoint: But Will the Retainer Model Improve Health Care? Responses References Dr. Centor should be commended for ...

Long Island doctors are willing to personalize their approach and cater to patients' schedules — for a fee. Physicians are spending their weekends fielding calls, sorting through images of rashes and ...

The University of Michigan has become the focal point in a national controversy over a revolutionary shift in medicine — away from traditional insurance-based health care, to a new model where ...

Direct primary care is yet another in a long line of ideas to help reinvigorate primary care for both doctors and patients. Some view it as a panacea, others as snake oil. I’m not sure what it is, but ...

Charter Internal Medicine, a 9,000-patient primary care medical office in Howard County, has announced that it is reversing plans to cease accepting health insurance and switch to a retainer-style ...

I appreciate Dr. Vega's concerns about "the health care of our country." He opines that retainer practices would decrease access to primary care physicians. Moreover, he raises the interesting point ...