My partner & I went through the entire evaluation process 2 years ago for MD-VIP. It involves providing some basic income and overhead data, and also telephone numbers for active patients. Over 100 of our patients were called by MD-VIP for a survey, asking basically if they would pay $1500 per year retainer to keep seeing us, with expanded access, longer appointments, doctor's cell phone number, etc. Despite preparing our staff for surveyed patient phone calls, there was an avalanche of calls over the survey, mostly expressing concern over the cost. The presentation from MD-VIP said that we would do fine, retain 800-1000 patients each, and more patients interested in this model would find us. After a lot of soul-searching, we didn't sign up. But I think about this option frequently. If things got bad ...
