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Concierge Medicine TodayCMT Research Brief No. 81 · Practice Models · November 2026

Research Brief No. 81Practice ModelsPrimary evidence: Population Data

Models, Terminology and Numbers: The CMT Models and Pricing Map

Membership medicine now covers at least ten distinct models. They differ in who pays, whether insurance is billed, what a panel looks like and what it costs. This brief defines each one in CMT's own terms and puts sourced numbers beside it. It also states plainly where the numbers do not exist yet.

A numbers companion to Research Brief No. 37, The Membership Medicine Models, Compared, which covers each structure's legal rules.

By Concierge Medicine Today, Editorial Research · Published November 2026 · Version 1.1 (Nov. 9, 2026: added a census by model with specialty concierge and direct specialty care shown separately; earlier the same day with interviews of health law attorneys and a transaction advisor) · External review: not yet reviewed · About 14 minutes

Start here: the questions this brief answers

The 30-second answer. Concierge medicine and direct primary care are separate models, and both are different from telehealth subscriptions, retail memberships and NP-led or PA-led membership practices. Independent researchers counted 3,036 membership medicine sites in 2023 (concierge and DPC combined), about 60% of them concierge.¹ Panel sizes and fees are well documented for DPC and thin for concierge. CMT publishes counts and price bands by model rather than a list of practices. A list would go stale quickly and could read as an endorsement.

What counts as concierge medicine, and what does not?

A membership fee plus, in most cases, continued insurance billing. Practices that drop insurance entirely sit closer to DPC. Go to the full answer ↓

How did CMT get its concierge number?

Four published steps from the Health Affairs count, with DPC removed. See the math ↓

How many practices and clinicians are there?

3,036 sites and 7,021 clinicians in 2023, concierge and DPC combined. CMT estimates 3,000 to 6,000 concierge physicians. Go to the full answer ↓

How many practices, clinicians and patients are in each model?

Only DPC has independent practice counts. Concierge relies on one combined study, company figures and CMT inference, and several models have no public count at all. See the census ↓

How big is a panel in each model?

A 2005 national survey found 898 patients per retainer physician vs. 2,303 in traditional practice. DPC panels are reported separately. Go to the full answer ↓

What does each model cost?

DPC has published averages near $98 to $99 a month. No methodology-disclosed concierge average exists. Go to the full answer ↓

Why doesn't CMT publish a practice directory?

Independence, accuracy and liability. CMT publishes the map, not the list. Go to the full answer ↓

Written for: Physicians exploring a modelNPs and PAsPractice leadersJournalistsResearchers

Part 1 · Terminology

Ten models, defined in CMT's terms

Practices name themselves loosely, and the same word can mean different things in different markets. CMT sorts models by four first-principles questions: Who pays? Is insurance billed? Who holds the panel? What does the fee buy? Filter the models below or search a term.

Showing 10 of 10 models

Traditional concierge medicineMembership fee plus insurance billing

Who pays: Patient pays an annual or monthly fee; insurance and Medicare are billed for covered services.
Insurance: Usually billed. Medicare-enrolled physicians may charge the fee only for non-covered services and amenities.³
Typical panel: Small; see Part 3.
Read more: CMT Basics

Luxury and bespoke conciergeHigh-touch, very small panels, often no insurance

Who pays: Individual, family or corporate retainer, often annual.
Insurance: Varies; many do not bill.
Typical panel: Very small; no published benchmark.
Read more: Luxury and access healthcare

Hybrid or segmented practiceA membership tier alongside a traditional panel

Who pays: Members pay a fee; non-members are seen through insurance.
Insurance: Billed for all patients.
Note: Counted inconsistently across studies. CMT reports hybrids separately.

Health system and executive health programsConcierge run by a hospital or system

Who pays: Patient or employer, often annual.
Insurance: Usually billed for covered care.
Trend: Health law attorneys report more large systems now run their own concierge or executive health programs. Executive health programs often add assessments but not same-day personal access.⁴
Read more: CMT Research Brief No. 7

Direct primary care (DPC)Flat periodic fee, no insurance billing

Who pays: Patient, family or employer, usually monthly.
Insurance: Not billed for clinical services. Qualifying arrangements up to $150 a month may be paid from an HSA from 2026.⁵
Read more: CMT Research Brief No. 21

Employer, onsite and network DPCSponsored by an employer, union or network

Who pays: Employer or union, per employee per month.
Insurance: Not billed for primary care.
Read more: CMT Research Brief No. 35

Direct specialty careMembership or cash-pay outside primary care

Who pays: Patient, by membership or published cash price.
Insurance: Varies by practice.
Examples: Pediatrics (sometimes called direct pediatric care), cardiology, women's health, podiatry, dermatology, psychiatry.
Read more: CMT Research Brief No. 6

NP-led, PA-led and nurse-led membershipNon-physician clinicians holding their own panels

Who pays: Concierge or DPC structures, depending on the practice.
Scope: Depends on state scope-of-practice law.
Trend: The NP and PA share of membership medicine clinicians (concierge and DPC combined) rose from 23% to 40%, 2018 to 2023.¹
Read more: CMT Research Brief No. 18

Telehealth subscriptionsVirtual-only access for a periodic fee

Who pays: Patient or employer.
Note: No continuity with a named physician is guaranteed in many plans. Not counted as concierge or DPC by CMT.

Retail and consumer-brand membershipsMembership access through a large consumer company

Who pays: Patient, often a low annual fee, with insurance billed for visits.
Note: Access-focused rather than small-panel. CMT reports these separately and does not count them as concierge.

Why labels mislead. Healthcare attorney Jim Eischen, who has spent about 15 years structuring cash-pay practices, told CMT that the labels are brand names, not predictable models. Before he looks at any label, he asks: Is the practice in Medicare? Is it in network? What exactly is sold for cash? How is it charged?⁶

Attorney commentary on the CMT DocPreneur Leadership Podcast. Educational, not legal advice. Practice Insight

CMT's editorial position. No model is better than another. Each answers a different question about time, trust and sustainability. Precise terms make sure the numbers for one model are not quoted as numbers for another.

Part 2 · The counts

What has been counted, and by whom

3,036

Membership medicine sites in 2023, concierge and DPC combined. Likely an undercount.

Population Data

Zhu et al., Health Affairs, 2025¹

~60%

Share of those sites that were concierge, or about 1,800 sites by CMT's arithmetic.

Population Data

Health Affairs, 2025¹

+83%

Growth in membership medicine sites, 2018 to 2023, concierge and DPC combined.

Population Data

Health Affairs, 2025¹

3,000 to 6,000

U.S. concierge physicians, concierge only. CMT estimate with a published method.

Industry Research

CMT Research Brief No. 28⁷

Model	Best available count	Source	Evidence type
Concierge (all forms)	About 1,800 sites (2023); 3,000 to 6,000 physicians (CMT estimate)	Health Affairs; CMT Brief No. 28^1,7	Population DataIndustry Research
Largest single concierge network	1,400+ physicians; 430,000+ members (MDVIP, company-reported)	MDVIP, Feb. 2026⁸	Industry Research
Hybrid, luxury, health system	No separate public count	Gap
Direct specialty care	No national count	Gap
Telehealth subscriptions; retail memberships	Not counted as membership medicine by CMT	Definitional

A wider lens: cash-pay care beyond the two brands. Jim Eischen estimates that no more than about 3,000 practices fit the two branded categories (national-network-style concierge and DPC combined). That is close to the 3,036 sites Health Affairs counted. He also estimates that 20,000 to 40,000 U.S. health professionals practice some form of cash-pay care outside insurance networks, including virtual care sold for cash.⁶

Expert estimate from 15 years of practice formation work; method not published. It is not a concierge count and should not be cited as one. Practice Insight

Show the math: how CMT gets from public data to a concierge-only number

Concierge figures and DPC figures are calculated separately. Steps 1 and 2 use public data anyone can check. Step 3 uses assumptions CMT publishes in full in Brief No. 28.

Start with the only national count. Health Affairs identified 3,036 membership medicine sites in 2023. This is concierge and DPC combined, and the authors call it an undercount.¹

3,036 sites

Take out DPC. About 60% of those sites were concierge. 3,036 × 0.60 = 1,822.¹

~1,800 concierge sites

Adjust for the undercount and convert sites to physicians. CMT applies published, labeled assumptions about missed practices and physicians per site. Every assumption and its range is in Brief No. 28.²

Ranges, not a point

Result: the CMT Concierge Estimate 2026. About 3,000 to 6,000 U.S. concierge physicians in roughly 2,000 to 4,500 sites. Concierge only; DPC is not included.²

3,000 to 6,000

Direct primary care · a different model · the DPC side of the same math

Step 2 leaves about 40% of the 2023 sites as DPC: 3,036 × 0.40 = about 1,200 sites in the Health Affairs count.¹ A separate vendor estimate puts DPC practices at about 3,600.³ The gap shows how much counting methods matter.

These figures describe DPC, not concierge medicine, and are shown separately for context only.

Why older numbers you may see are larger

Figure in circulation	What it actually covers	Method published?	Use today
12,000 to 13,000 physicians	Physicians running any subscription program, an earlier CMT estimate quoted by a concierge consulting firm. Not concierge only.⁹	No	Do not cite as a concierge count
8,000 to 12,000 practices	All membership medicine: concierge, DPC and hybrid practices with a membership tier.²	No	Cite only as a combined field estimate
3% to 5% growth a year	Earlier CMT estimate from physician and consultant input.⁹	No	Superseded by measured growth (+83%, 2018 to 2023, combined)
3,000 to 6,000 physicians	Concierge only	Yes	Cite this for concierge

CMT corrects in the open: the earlier estimates were not wrong so much as they measured a wider field without saying so.

Ownership is a model dimension too

84% → 60%

Share of membership medicine practices that were independently owned, 2018 to 2023, concierge and DPC combined. Corporate affiliation grew fastest.

Population Data

Health Affairs, 2025¹

4 partner types

Private equity, family offices, hospitals and health systems, and other large private or public companies. Each approaches a deal differently; family offices often hold longer than private equity's typical three to five years.

Practice Insight

Herschman and Jacoby, CMT podcast, 2025¹⁰

Why consolidation is reaching concierge medicine. On the CMT DocPreneur Leadership Podcast, Dana Jacoby (Vector Medical Group) named four pressures pushing practices toward outside partners: administrative load pulling physicians away from patients; the cost of security, IT and membership systems; marketing against better-funded entrants; and succession and recruiting.¹⁰ Gary Herschman (Baker Donelson) said agreements he negotiates bar investors from directing clinical care, which corporate practice of medicine laws also require in many states. He also said buyers typically ask selling physicians to stay at least five years.¹⁰

Advisor and attorney commentary; both work on these transactions. Educational, not legal or financial advice. CMT Research Brief No. 34 covers succession, sale or stay. Practice Insight

Direct primary care · a different model · DPC counts

About 3,600 DPC practices nationwide, a Hint Health estimate cited by the DPC Alliance.¹¹ Hint reports platform data from more than 2,700 clinicians and 1.4 million members.¹² Industry Research

These figures describe DPC, not concierge medicine, and are shown separately for context only.

Part 2b · The census by model

How many practices, clinicians and patients are in each model?

CMT went model by model and kept only figures it could trace to a named source. Each figure is labeled by how it was produced. Where nobody publishes a number, the chart says so instead of filling the gap. Specialty concierge and direct specialty care are shown as separate rows because they work differently: one keeps billing insurance, the other usually does not.

The one national anchor: 3,036 membership medicine sites and 7,021 clinicians in 2023, concierge and DPC combined (Health Affairs).¹ Every row below is a slice, a company figure or a CMT inference. Rows do not add up to a total.

Independent count or surveyCompany-reportedCMT inference (math shown)Not publicly counted Concierge familyDirect care family (different model)Other

Log scale. Bar length compares orders of magnitude, not exact ratios.

Tap any row for its sources and caveats.

What is known, and what is not

Each cell shows how well a measure is documented for each model. Most of the map is still blank. That gap is the finding.

The panel-size ladder

Patients per clinician, smallest to largest, on one log scale. Years and definitions differ, so read this for scale, not precision.

How CMT built the inferences. Concierge patients: 3,000 to 6,000 physicians⁷ × 400 to 600 patients each (MDVIP caps panels at 600;³⁰ many practices run smaller) = roughly 1.2 to 3.6 million patients. Employer-funded DPC: 60% of 1.4 million members on one platform¹² = about 840,000, a floor for that platform only. NP and PA clinicians: 40.3% of 7,021 clinicians¹ = about 2,830, concierge and DPC combined. These are CMT estimates, not counts.

Industry Research CMT inference, method shown.

Direct primary care · a different model · why the DPC rows look fuller

DPC has independent trackers (the DPC Frontier mapper listed 3,163 practices in September 2026²⁵), an association survey (about 3,600 practices estimated¹¹) and a billing platform that publishes member counts.¹² Concierge has no equivalent registry. These figures describe DPC, not concierge medicine, and are shown separately for context.

Part 3 · Panel size by model

Smaller panels are the mechanism, not a perk

Panel size is what turns a membership into time. Bar lengths are drawn to scale.

Traditional practice (2005)

2,303

Retainer / concierge (2005)

898

Patients per physician. Alexander et al., J Gen Intern Med, 2005, national survey.¹³ Practice Insight The data are old; no newer national concierge panel figure has been published.

Direct primary care · a different model · DPC panel size

DPC average, 2024

402

DPC average, 2025

504

AAFP Direct Primary Care data briefs.¹⁴ Practice Insight Separately, the DPC Alliance reports that mature DPC panels cluster at 400 to 700 patients.¹¹ Bars use the same scale as the chart above.

These figures describe DPC, not concierge medicine, and are shown separately for context only.

A concierge consulting firm describes typical concierge panels as about 400 to 600 patients, vs. 2,500 to 3,000 in traditional practice, without citing a source.⁹ Industry Research

What CMT can add today. No newer national concierge panel figure has been published since 2005, so CMT does not estimate one. The Editor-in-Chief's view, from the CMT Media Desk:

“Fewer patients doesn't mean less care; it means more intentional care.”

“I think there will always be a need for a doctor and patient to have a close relationship.”⁹

Michael Tetreault, Editor-in-Chief, Concierge Medicine Today. Editorial views, not research findings. A concierge-only panel median and range by specialty is a planned question in the 2027 CMT practice survey.

Part 4 · Price bands

What each model costs, and how sure we are

Model	Published price evidence	Confidence	Evidence type
Traditional concierge	Annual retainers commonly in the thousands of dollars; no methodology-disclosed national average. One health law attorney who structures concierge practices says most fees she sees fall between about $1,000 and $8,000 a year.⁴	Low	Population DataPractice Insight¹
Luxury and bespoke	No public benchmark	None
Health system programs	Example: $2,500 a year at one South Florida health system program (2024). Large systems in Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Florida run concierge programs.¹⁵	Single examples	Industry Research
Hybrid	No public benchmark	None
Telehealth, retail	Varies by company; set by each company	Not compiled

Direct primary care · a different model · DPC price bands

Figure	What it measures	Source	Evidence type
$98.46	Average monthly fee, 465 physician survey responses (data collected Oct. to Nov. 2024)	DPC Alliance, 2026¹¹	Practice Insight
$105.93 / $99.28 / $77.74	Average fee for panels under 200 / 201 to 500 / over 500	DPC Alliance, 2026¹¹	Practice Insight
$99	Median retail monthly price, 2025 (vendor platform data)	Hint Health, 2026¹²	Industry Research
$55 to $66	Median employer-sponsored monthly range since 2020 (vendor platform data)	Hint Health, 2026¹²	Industry Research
$150	HSA-eligible ceiling, individual ($300 family), from 2026	IRS Notice 2026-5⁵	Policy and Law

These figures describe DPC, not concierge medicine, and are shown separately for context only. The two survey and platform figures agree closely ($98 to $99), even though they come from different methods.

The other monthly fee: what Medicare already pays for connection

$536M

Medicare and Medicare Advantage payments for remote patient monitoring in 2024, up 31% from 2023.

Population Data

HHS OIG, Aug. 2025¹⁶

~1M

Medicare enrollees who received remote patient monitoring in 2024.

Population Data

HHS OIG, Aug. 2025¹⁶

4,639

Medical practices that routinely billed Medicare for remote patient monitoring in 2024.

Population Data

HHS OIG, Aug. 2025¹⁶

$15M

The same payments in 2019, when Medicare first covered the service widely.

Population Data

HHS OIG, via summary¹⁶

Jim Eischen calls remote monitoring and chronic care management Medicare's own version of a monthly connection fee.¹⁷ OIG is watching the growth for fraud risk, so CMT shows these figures as context on demand, not as a revenue recommendation.

Price is a choice of market, not a measure of value. Jim Eischen says his clients charging about $6,000 a year can deliver care worth $40,000 to some patients. In his view, the real question is who a physician wants to serve for the next decade.⁶

Attorney commentary; anecdotal; not a benchmark. Practice Insight

Why the fee's wording matters. OIG has twice resolved cases in which practices that accept Medicare assignment charged beneficiaries membership fees for access-style benefits: once in 2007, and again in April 2025 for about $860,000 in penalties and refunds combined.¹⁸ What a fee buys, and how it is described, affects both Medicare compliance and whether pre-tax health accounts can pay it. CMT Research Brief No. 33 covers the Medicare rules.

Two attorneys, one core rule. Chicago health law attorney Jonna Eimer stresses that a practice still in Medicare or commercial plans cannot charge members for anything those plans already cover. She also cautions against marketing an "annual exam" that overlaps a covered physical.⁴ Jim Eischen frames compliant fees around routine exams that Medicare excludes by statute.¹⁷ The framing differs; the rule underneath is the same. Have qualified counsel review your own agreement.

Public OIG enforcement records. Educational only; consult qualified counsel. Policy and Law

First-principles question. A fee is only meaningful next to the panel it supports. In the DPC data, smaller panels charge more. CMT expects the same relationship in concierge medicine but has no data to show it yet.

Part 5 · The map, not the list

Why CMT publishes counts and price bands, not a practice directory

Lists go stale

Practices change fees, stop taking patients, drop insurance or close. One public finder discloses checking 1,921 of 5,091 listings against the practice's own website over about six weeks (Sept. 23 to Nov. 2, 2026).¹⁹

Lists read as endorsement

A listing on an industry publication's site can look like approval. CMT does not vet or endorse practices, sponsors or vendors, and a directory would blur that line.

Maps answer the real question

Physicians, reporters and policymakers mostly ask how many, where, at what price and in which models. Aggregated, sourced counts answer that without ranking anyone.

The Editor's view

“For nearly two decades, everyone guessed how big this field is, including us. The guessing is over. In any industry, authority belongs to whoever shows their math. So we're showing ours.”

Michael Tetreault, Editor-in-Chief, Concierge Medicine Today. From the CMT Media Desk.

“A directory tells you who's out there. It doesn't tell you who's right for you, and it can look like an endorsement we never gave. We'd rather show physicians and patients the whole landscape, with our sources, and let them choose.”

Michael Tetreault, Editor-in-Chief, Concierge Medicine Today, November 2026. Editorial views. That is why CMT publishes counts with their method, not a list of names.

The 2027 CMT Models and Pricing Map: what it will publish

Dimension	Published as	Source plan
Model (the 10 above)	Counts and share	Sourced research plus the 2027 CMT practice survey
Specialty	Counts by specialty, concierge and direct care separately	2027 CMT practice survey
State	Counts in bands (for example, 1 to 10, 11 to 50), never named practices	Public sources, with dates
Price	Bands with sample size and date	Only where n is 30 or more per band
Panel size	Median and range by model	2027 CMT practice survey

What CMT already has: the specialty mix of its readers

Family medicine

38%

Internal medicine

32%

Osteopathic (DO)*

Cardiology

Nephrology

Pediatrics

CMT reader poll of physician readers practicing in concierge medicine, 2014 to 2024, 300 respondents, self-selected online poll. Describes respondents, not all concierge physicians; margin of error about ±6 points if the sample were random. *A degree rather than a specialty, shown as respondents selected it.²⁰ Industry Research

Beyond primary care. “Ten years ago, concierge medicine was mostly a primary care story. Today we hear from cardiologists, endocrinologists, OB-GYNs, gastroenterologists and oncologists exploring the model.”

Michael Tetreault, Editor-in-Chief, CMT Media Desk. Editorial view. Because this is a business model rather than a specialty, exact counts by specialty or state do not exist yet. The 2027 CMT practice survey will collect them, and state counts will be published in bands only.

Learn → Build → Lead

Learn

Name your model with the four questions: who pays, whether insurance is billed, who holds the panel and what the fee buys.

Build

Set your fee and panel together. Use published figures for your own model only, with the source and date.

Lead

When patients or reporters ask, use precise terms. Don't quote a DPC number as a concierge number, or the reverse.

Methods, limitations and evidence types

How this brief was built

CMT reviewed published research, association surveys, vendor reports and federal guidance available as of November 9, 2026. Concierge and DPC figures were kept separate throughout. Combined figures are labeled "concierge and DPC combined," and DPC-only figures appear only in dashed DPC boxes. The ten model definitions are CMT's editorial taxonomy, not a legal or regulatory classification.

Every key finding is labeled by evidence type. Labels describe the type of evidence, not its value. Each type answers different questions. Funding is disclosed on every source.

Evidence type	What it covers	Best for
Clinical Trial Evidence	Randomized trials and systematic reviews	Cause and effect
Population Data	Large observational studies and government data	Trends at scale
Practice Insight	Surveys, smaller studies and expert consensus	Real-world experience
Industry Research	Company-sponsored or company-reported data, not peer-reviewed	Early signals and operating data
Policy and Law	Statutes, regulation and official guidance	What is required

What we don't know

A current national concierge panel size or fee average with a published method.
Counts of hybrid, luxury, health system and direct specialty practices.
How many NP-led, PA-led or nurse-led practices run a membership model, by state.
Whether DPC price-to-panel patterns hold in concierge medicine.

How to cite this brief

Concierge Medicine Today. Models, Terminology and Numbers: The CMT Models and Pricing Map. CMT Research Brief No. 81. November 2026.

External review: not yet reviewed. Corrections: CMT corrects errors in the open and notes what changed and why.

Related CMT Research Briefs

No. 28 · Counting Concierge

The census standard and the CMT Concierge Estimate 2026.

Read the brief

No. 29 · Fee Benchmarks

What membership fees can and cannot tell you.

Read the brief

No. 37 · The Models, Compared

Legal structure and rules for each model.

Read the brief

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Disclaimer

This brief is educational and informational only. It is not medical, legal, tax, financial or accounting advice. Consult qualified professionals about your situation.

Concierge Medicine Today is independent. No one pays for favorable coverage, no practice model is favored, and funding is disclosed for every source. CMT does not vet or endorse any practice, sponsor, vendor or company named or described here.