Newly Released White Paper: The State of Concierge and Consumer Medicine, 2026

Four Forces Pulling Capital Into the Category of Concierge Medicine

FOR DOCTORS. FOR PRACTICE LEADERS. FOR MODERN MEMBERSHIP-BASED CARE. Concierge Medicine Today THE INDUSTRY'S LEADERSHIP BRIEF & TRADE PUBLICATION. OCT 14, 2026 EDITION ANNUAL INDUSTRY CONFERENCE (Atlanta, GA) October15-17 | Get Tickets | Exhibitors & Sponsors Home  |  About  |  CMF 2026 Conference  |  Schedule  |  Top Docs  |  Podcast  |  National Stats  |  News  |  Shop  |  Contact Sponsor Packages | Research Briefs | Legal & Ops  | Latest Podcast Episode | Register for CMF 2026 View All Jobs Currently Available in Concierge Medicine Key Takeaways from Newly Released White Paper: The State of Concierge and Consumer Medicine, 2026   Guest Article Contributors (October 12, 2026) - Prepared jointly by Vector Medical Group and Baker Donelson, with commentary from Dana Jacoby, CEO & Founder of Vector Medical Group; Gary W. Herschman, Shareholder and Co-Chair of Baker Donelson’s Health Care Transactions Group; and Timothy C. McHale, Associate in Baker Donelson’s Health Care Transactions Group.   The new white paper explains why membership-based primary care, direct primary care (DPC), and adjacent consumer-health businesses -- such as longevity clinics, biomarker testing, hormone optimization, and medical weight management -- are drawing sustained attention from private equity firms, family offices, insurers, and consumer-health strategics.    For physician-owners, the paper is a practical guide to protecting and building value, whether or not they intend to transact. ACCESS WHITE PAPER | READ FULL STORY IN THIS ISSUE More New Jobs and Positions In Concierge Medicine Practices: CA, FL, IL, MA, MO, NC, PA - Browse All Job Listings Concierge Medicine Today (CMT) Launches Exit Value Calculator: Know What Your Practice Is Worth Before Someone Else Tells You HeartBeam Initiates Pilot Study of First On-Demand 12-Lead ECG Patch to Detect Ischemia Outside the Clinic Board-Certified Internal Medicine Physician Wanted — Established Concierge Practice in Westport, CT Join SDSM's Concierge Medicine Program: Family Medicine or Internal Medicine Physician, San Diego, CA GLP-1 telehealth spends $200 to get a patient. Here's what that buys them -- GLP-1 telehealth brands spend $150 to $250 to acquire a paying patient and it works because they built a system, not a campaign. We broke down the full funnel, the pricing, and the exact playbook, then compared it to what concierge medicine members and DPC patients actually pay. If your marketing is still based on hope for the referral, one social media post a week and a "mid" or "meh" (as the kids say) website, this is the marketing knowledge gap you need to close. (Read More) MDVIP’s 2026 Patient Satisfaction Survey Shows Record Member Loyalty and Stronger Year-Over-Year Satisfaction Why Cutting Your Price Won’t Fill Your Panel. It’ll Close Your Practice. Houston Methodist Seeks a Concierge Medicine & Executive Health Physician The Physician’s Guide to Understanding Concierge Medicine Inside a Health System Opinion: “Your Membership Fee Won’t Qualify for an HSA. Your Practice Can Still Win.” (Guest Contributors) Inside the “Adaptive Primary Care” framework and the thinking behind it. (Podcast) CMF 2026 Keynote, Speakers, Workshops & Breakouts Announced - October 15-17 in Atlanta, GA USA Hot TOPIC: Why pushback might mean you're doing it right: What to Say When Someone Calls Your Practice "Elitist" (Read More) The real reason patients get upset (Read More) The one danger more dangerous than opposition (Read More) A story about a Saturday nobody asked her to give (Read More) What Chick-fil-A and In-N-Out can teach healthcare about marketing (Read More) Latest Job Opportunities (Summer 2026) Legal & Op Ed Commentary  Marketing Workshops, October 15-17 Membership Medicine 101 Workshop, October 15-17 Annual industry conference, Atlanta, GA USA - Get tickets Become a Sponsor at CMF 2026 - Pricing & Application CONCIERGE MEDICINE TODAY · PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT Meet Dr. Kyra Bobinet Your patients know what to do. Why don't they do it? Every membership practice rests on a quiet assumption: that more time and better access will translate into better follow-through. Dr. Kyra Bobinet has spent her career studying why that often doesn't happen, and what physicians can do about it.   She is our keynote at the 10th annual Concierge Medicine Forum, October 15-17 in Atlanta. Before she takes the stage, I sat down with her on the DocPreneur Leadership Podcast. Consider it your first look. CMF 2026 Keynote | LISTEN TO FULL INTERVIEW CONCIERGE MEDICINE TODAY · PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT Inside the “Adaptive Primary Care” framework and the thinking behind it. (Podcast) Dr. Charles “Trey” Williams didn’t set out to disrupt pediatrics. He set out to be the kind of doctor his own kids deserved. After a decade in corporate, insurance-driven practice and a stint inside a health-tech startup, Williams reached the same conclusion many physicians on this podcast have reached: the system was built for throughput, not relationships, and pediatrics runs on relationships. Read this week's featured article | LISTEN TO FULL INTERVIEW CONCIERGE MEDICINE TODAY · RESEARCH BRIEFS · PUBLISHED SINCE 2007 · OBJECTIVE Peer-cited briefs on the business, economics, workforce, and policy dimensions of concierge and membership-based medicine. The Future of Membership-Based Healthcare — CMT Research Brief "Everyone assumes concierge medicine is exploding. It's not. It's under 2%. 8,000 to 12,000 practices out of 1.1 million doctors. That's the truth. Here's the other truth: a quarter of those practices are now specialists, cardiology, endo, OB-GYN, even oncology. Small numbers. Massive signal. That's how you know a model is becoming the standard, not the size of it, the direction of it."   — Michael Tetreault, Editor-in-Chief, Concierge Medicine Today Research Brief 2026 State of Concierge & Membership Medicine:   Market Size, Physician Workforce, and Practice Economics "Stop measuring concierge medicine by market share. Wrong metric. Measure it by who's borrowing from it. Specialists are building subscription models off it. Hospital systems are launching premium-access programs modeled on it. Even inside Direct Primary Care, physicians are reaching for the same core idea: a direct relationship with the patient, no insurance company in between. Fewer than 2% of U.S. physicians practice concierge medicine today. And the rest of healthcare is quietly getting graded against a model that small. That's not a niche. That's a reference point."   — Michael Tetreault, Editor-in-Chief, Concierge Medicine Today Research Brief The Physician’s Guide to Understanding Concierge Medicine Inside a Health System Research Brief A Field Guide to Professional Organizations in Membership Medicine Research Brief What Makes a Concierge Medical Practice Successful?  — CMT Research Brief Research Brief Concierge Medicine vs Direct Primary Care: A Structural Comparison Listen to Episode Helpful Legal Questions Concierge Physicians Can’t Afford to Skip Read full story Unsubscribe Concierge Medicine Today LLC 4080 McGinnis Ferry Road Building 800, Suite 801 Alpharetta, Georgia 30005 United States +17704551650