My wife's GP Dr just told her she is becoming a concierge practice

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105. Not necessarily. It might be the provider moving away from insurance and trying to avoid VC

I want to address the for profit issue first.
Health care is a business.
Everyone else is expected to be paid for their work. Health care practitioners should be paid for their work and expertise. Sometimes people throw around for profit in the healthcare industry as if its a dirty word. Its not. I'm an NP. I love what I do. But I am not doing it for free. The govt is not paying for school or paying off massive student loans that we leave school with.

More and more providers are moving away from insurance. I can't blame them. Its too much of a damn headache. It takes up too much of your time, long after you have seen the patient.
Sometimes the work you do is not even paid. That's the side patients don't see. You submit a claim and the insurance can decide not to pay the claim after you've done the work. Then they create more paperwork for providers. Oh, you didn't have this paperwork done just exactly as we wanted it so, nope we are not paying you. Nothing to do with whether or not you saw the patient, treated the patient.

I don't know if that is the case here. There are many independent providers now that only take cash or have moved to some type of membership model.
I have a colleague that does concierge therapy. He is totally independent.
Not spending hours doing paperwork for insurance, not having to worry about rejected claims and clawbacks. I can't blame him for taking that route.