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The five healthcare concierge services worth a serious look in 2026 are MDVIP (the largest concierge primary-care network, roughly $1,800 to $2,500 a year), Amazon One Medical (membership primary care at $199 a year, less with Prime), PartnerMD (regional concierge primary care with a yearly executive physical built in), Sollis Health (members-only emergency and urgent care in New York, Los Angeles, South Florida and the Bay Area), and Private Medical (physician-led family practice for people who want a doctor on call, priced in the tens of thousands per year). Each solves a different problem. MDVIP and PartnerMD buy you a smaller patient panel and same-day access. One Medical buys convenience. Sollis replaces the ER waiting room. Private Medical replaces the whole system.
What does “concierge” actually buy you?
A retainer fee that pays for access, not for medical services. In exchange, the physician caps their patient panel at a few hundred people instead of the 2,000 or more a typical insured primary-care panel carries. That is where the same-day appointments, 30- to 60-minute visits and direct phone or text access come from. The medicine itself is still billed to your insurance in most models.
Two models get lumped together under one word. Concierge medicine charges a fee and bills insurance. Direct primary care (DPC) charges a flat monthly fee and does not bill insurance at all; the American Academy of Family Physicians policy on direct primary care describes the distinction. Ask which one you are buying before you sign.
How do the five compare?
| Service | Model | Typical annual cost | Where | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDVIP | Concierge primary care, bills insurance | About $1,800 to $2,500 | 1,100+ affiliated physicians nationwide | Adults 50+ who want preventive depth and a known doctor |
| Amazon One Medical | Membership primary care, bills insurance | $199; $99 for Prime members | Offices in about 25 U.S. metros, 24/7 video | Busy people who mostly need fast, routine care |
| PartnerMD | Concierge primary care, bills insurance | Low-to-mid four figures | Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina, Georgia | Executives and families in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast |
| Sollis Health | Members-only urgent and emergency care | Mid four figures per adult | New York City, the Hamptons, Los Angeles, South Florida, San Francisco | People who want ER-level imaging and labs without the wait |
| Private Medical | Full-service family medicine, physician on call | Tens of thousands | San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York | Families who want a single physician managing everything |
Prices move. MDVIP fees vary by market and physician. One Medical’s price has held at $199 since Amazon bought the company in 2023, with the Prime discount introduced that November. Sollis and Private Medical quote by household, age and location, so treat the ranges above as a starting point and ask for a written fee schedule.
Which one fits which person?
- MDVIP is the default choice if you are over 50 and want a long annual physical with advanced screening. Panels are capped around 600 patients, and the network is large enough that most metro areas have an affiliated physician. The weak spot is specialist coordination, which depends entirely on the individual doctor.
- One Medical is not true concierge. You will not get a doctor’s cell number, and panels are larger than at MDVIP. What you get is same-week in-person visits, app-based prescription renewals and video care at any hour for a price that is a rounding error next to the others.
- PartnerMD bundles a comprehensive executive physical into the membership, which is the item executives usually buy separately for $2,000 to $5,000 at an academic center. If you live in its footprint, that bundle is the value.
- Sollis Health is additive, not a replacement for a primary-care physician. Members use it the way other people use the ER: X-ray, CT, stitches, IV fluids, a 2 a.m. fever. It makes financial sense if your household has had two or more ER visits in a year or you travel between its cities.
- Private Medical is for people whose time is worth more than the fee. A physician coordinates specialists, hospital admissions and travel medicine, and will come to you. It is the only one of the five where “concierge” means the doctor, not the front desk.
What changed since this list was first written?
Forward is gone. The tech-forward membership clinic that appeared on most concierge lists shut down in November 2024 after its CarePod kiosks failed to scale. If an older article recommends it, the article is out of date.
Direct primary care fees are now HSA-compatible. Section 71308 of Public Law 119-21, signed July 2025, lets you hold a health savings account while enrolled in a DPC arrangement and pay the fee from the HSA, starting with tax year 2026. The cap is $150 a month for an individual and $300 for a family, indexed for inflation. Concierge fees at practices that also bill insurance remain a gray area; IRS Publication 502 treats only payments for actual medical care as deductible, so most retainer fees still do not qualify.
Medicare rules have not loosened. Physicians who accept Medicare can charge a concierge fee, but the fee cannot cover anything Medicare already pays for. The Medicare page on concierge care spells this out, and the HHS Office of Inspector General has warned that fees for covered services can count as illegal extra billing. Get an itemized list of what the fee buys.
What goes wrong when a practice goes concierge?
We produce video for medical practices, and physician conversions are where we see the most expensive mistakes. A doctor converting a 2,200-patient panel to a 600-patient concierge model typically keeps 10 to 30 percent of existing patients. The rest have to be told, in writing and with notice, that they need a new doctor. That letter is the practice’s most-read marketing piece of the year and is usually the least thought through.
The second mistake is patient testimonials. A filmed patient story needs a HIPAA authorization that specifically covers marketing use, not just a standard appearance release. The HHS guidance on HIPAA and marketing is explicit about this. We have had to shelve finished footage because the paperwork covered the website but not paid social placement.
Budget-wise, a 90-second physician introduction video shot in a half day at the practice runs in the range of $5,000 to $15,000, depending on crew size, whether you need a second location and how much B-roll the office can actually provide. The variable that breaks schedules is the physician’s time. Block two uninterrupted hours; a doctor who is squeezing the shoot between patients reads as rushed on camera, and that is the opposite of what a concierge practice is selling.
How do you choose?
Start with the problem you are paying to solve. If it is wait times for routine care, One Medical at $199 solves most of it. If it is depth of preventive care and a doctor who knows your history, MDVIP or a regional equivalent like PartnerMD is the right tier. If it is emergencies, add Sollis to whichever primary-care choice you make. If it is coordination of a complex medical life, interview Private Medical and at least one independent concierge internist in your city, because at that price the individual physician matters more than the brand.
Before paying any fee, ask three questions in writing: what is the panel cap, what happens to the fee if the physician leaves, and which services are covered by the fee versus billed to insurance. Then book a consultation visit, which the better practices offer free, and judge the doctor rather than the brochure.
