The growing number of concierge medical practices limit the number of patients and charge them membership fees. Will this ...

There's a critical shortage of primary care doctors across the country, and long wait times for appointments. In response, there are 12,000 "concierge" medical practices now operating in the U.S. that ...

A critical shortage of primary care doctors across the country and long wait times for appointments have some doctors converting their practices to a membership model. But that may actually be making ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. When you go to the doctor, you’re probably the one answering most of the questions. Yet it’s ...

This study focuses on how primary care patients balance the trade-off between continuity of care and access to timely ...

It is often difficult to make appointments with doctors: Telephone lines are either busy or you are stuck in a waiting loop. For medical practices, making appointments is labor-intensive and time ...

Long wait for a rushed doctor's visit? Maybe you'll get more ... although she did start to notice it was harder to get an appointment. "You'd call and you're talking about weeks to a month ...