Corporate Sales Program for Direct Medical Practice.

Here is a snippet I found on my AIS newsletter today.  

Only 62% ... of nearly 500 large employers surveyed by the National Business Group on Health and Watson Wyatt were "confident" they will be offering health benefits to employees 10 years from now, down from 73% a year ago. 

Businesses are looking for solutions to exorbitant healthcare costs, as well as ways to retain top talent, in particular the older gen y yougner gen x moms in the workforce.  

Our Pediatrician Affiliate program has a nice integrated solution to sell our patient memberships directly to companies.  

And who doesn't like making house calls especially when the fortune 500 is paying for them.  

Natalie Hodge MD FAAP 

Personal Pediatrics Column for pregnancy.org

We are excited to be building out a Personal Pediatrics Affiliate Column for the team at www.pregnancy.org   Would love to have feedback from moms about the kind of column you would like to see?  What are your burning questions about parenting and motherhood?  How can your personalpediatrics affiliate help make motherhood easier and more convenient?  You know we love making house calls and cherish your family!!  We will certainly give parenting.org community users some special discounts on memberships for our Personal Pediatrics affiliate practices!!  Some call it concierge pediatrics, but we just like to call it direct medical practice.  

Natalie Hodge MD FAAP 

Link to Washington Post Article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/23/AR2009032301745_2.html?hpid=sec-health

Article In Washington Post

There is a nice article in Wash Post today about house calls for the elderly

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/23/AR2009032301745_2.html?hpid=sec-health

Now this gentleman is an employeed staff member of an academic institution. Hopefully over time institutions will enable doc's to start house call service lines that can add value to the organization. Pediatricians who want business ownership and practice ownership need a variety of skill sets to start and market this kind of service on their own without a hospital paycheck. That is where the services of PP can come in handy for you. Marketing to start, convert existing practice, ongoing marketing can be extremely time consuming. Let us know if we can help you. Natalie Hodge MD FAAP.

Pediatricians!! Would love to have feedback!!

We are in the process of signing a few early beta sites for direct medical practice. We will start a new survey this week with pediatricians to see if they think that their patients would be interested in an option of house calls by their pediatrician, nurse practitioner. Pricing is different depending on market demographics, competition, a variety of other factors. Weigh in and would love to have your thoughts!! We understand the pressures of third party practice and would love to help you implement a service line tat will add greatly to your bottom line, create a better lifestyle for you and your collegues, and help you gain market share in your practicing demographic. Warmest Regards, Natalie Hodge MD