Putting Your Health First:
A Look At Concierge Medicine
The Healthcare industry increasingly overlooks individuals—we don’t. We value our connection with our patients and the comprehensive care that they’ve grown to expect at ICM. Traditional insurance simply does not allow for personalized medicine. Doctors are forced to pigeonhole patients into specific diagnoses with specific time frames for treatment leaving no opportunity for deeper consultation or preventative care.
It’s time for a new healthcare model where patients are put first. To meet this challenge ICM has developed a program centered on the doctor-patient relationship. By limiting enrollment to less than 500 patients (vs. 3,000 in a traditional practice), ICM doctors can spend the time with a patient to provide exceptional, individualized care. Patients of concierge medicine have extended access to a physician, priority scheduling, comprehensive appointments, and a true sense of connection with their doctor.
What is Concierge Medicine?
Concierge medicine is a healthcare service where doctors offer personalized medical care to patients, ensuring greater access to physicians, same-day appointments, and various other amenities.
ICM’s concierge medicine practice focuses on comprehensive and preventative care by offering patients different levels of service to meet their individual healthcare needs. All tiers of ICM’s concierge medicine practice offer you direct access to our doctors and include many of the services that you’ve grown to love from ICM. This includes many discounted and complimentary services that are not currently covered by insurance.
Why ICM Became a Concierge Medicine Practice
Our clinic has consistently expanded services, a rarity in the current landscape where many independent, insurance-based clinics are limiting offerings, transitioning to cash-based models, or closing due to reduced reimbursement from insurance providers. Over the past few years, ICM has actively assessed how to maintain our commitment to delivering comprehensive, high-quality care within the constraints of an insurance-based framework. Our aim is to remain integral to the community and foster enduring relationships between you and your provider, ensuring continued access to naturopathic medicine.
Our holistic approach to wellness, prevention, and natural remedies has always encompassed services typically not covered by insurance plans. These include tasks such as prior authorizations, after-hours pager support, and direct communication via phone and email with your provider.
Concierge medicine enables us to bill your insurance for covered services while incorporating many of the beloved "non-covered" services associated with naturopathic medicine into your care plan. Covered services encompass standard office visits, annual physical exams, basic laboratory tests, and specific procedures according to your insurance policy. We are dedicated to offering various tiers of access to ensure accessibility to all individuals within our community.
What Does This Mean For You?
As we transition to a concierge medicine practice on January 1st, you can rest assured that you will continue to receive the exceptional level of service that has become synonymous with ICM. Patients will still benefit from personalized care, with our physicians dedicating ample time to address individual needs and expectations. These unwavering standards of care will persist as ICM evolves into a concierge medicine practice.
Have any questions?
We value you as a patient and we remain committed to your care here at ICM. We truly value our relationship with you, and we look forward to contributing to the long-term wellness of you and our community.
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Questions? Reach out to The Front or contact@icmedicine.com.