I'm very frustrated. I went to my primary care doctor last week and I know she has been planning for more than a year to go into private practice, instead of staying with the huge regional medical organization that she has been with for 20 years. We have gone to her for 17 of those years. She is frustrated with their control of her practice and also with what is going on in medicine/insurances/Affordable Care Act, etc. But she told us initially she was arranging to sign up with both my and my husband's insurance as a provider.
Last Friday, she told me that in the summer, she is going into private practice as concierge medicine. She was trying to sell me on it, and it sounded great - lots of personal attention (which she is good at anyway and why we go to her), home visits when needed, diet and exercise small groups, diabetes and cardiac small groups, and more. It would be $2000 a person for a year and she would file insurance for any testing or labs she would do and would work with our specialists. (I have some medical issues that are chronic and I have to see 3 specialists annually.)
However, after checking into my insurance this morning, we can't even consider staying with her, because both of our insurances require us to work through a primary care doctor for testing, specialists, etc. and they don't work with concierge doctors. If she ordered any tests or made referrals, the insurance would not pay.
So, now we are going to have to find a new doctor/doctors by July 30th. I hate changing doctors and hair stylists. (My husband adds "and spouses" haha) It's so hard to get comfortable with either one, so changing is not something I look forward to doing. What do you do to find a good doctor? Ask around to your friends? Read rating sites? Has anyone else had this happen?
Last Friday, she told me that in the summer, she is going into private practice as concierge medicine. She was trying to sell me on it, and it sounded great - lots of personal attention (which she is good at anyway and why we go to her), home visits when needed, diet and exercise small groups, diabetes and cardiac small groups, and more. It would be $2000 a person for a year and she would file insurance for any testing or labs she would do and would work with our specialists. (I have some medical issues that are chronic and I have to see 3 specialists annually.)
However, after checking into my insurance this morning, we can't even consider staying with her, because both of our insurances require us to work through a primary care doctor for testing, specialists, etc. and they don't work with concierge doctors. If she ordered any tests or made referrals, the insurance would not pay.
So, now we are going to have to find a new doctor/doctors by July 30th. I hate changing doctors and hair stylists. (My husband adds "and spouses" haha) It's so hard to get comfortable with either one, so changing is not something I look forward to doing. What do you do to find a good doctor? Ask around to your friends? Read rating sites? Has anyone else had this happen?