ALL ABOUT CONCIERGE MEDICINE
Everything you need to know about concierge medicine — how it works, what it costs, and whether it’s right for you.
What is concierge medicine?
Concierge medicine is a membership-based model that gives you unlimited, direct access to your physician, without the restrictions of traditional healthcare. At SM Concierge Medicine, that means same-day or next-day appointments, extended visits, and a doctor who truly knows your history, goals, and lifestyle. This is medicine the way it should be: unhurried, precise, and built around you.
Concierge medicine services
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Comprehensive Intake & Diagnostic Foundation
A comprehensive 2-hour visit covering your history, symptoms, and goals, with lab work, imaging, or specialty testing coordinated as soon as the next day.
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Executive Physicals & Advanced Diagnostics
Comprehensive executive physicals and advanced diagnostics, forming the clinical foundation of your membership.
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24/7 Physician & Team Access
Secure messaging and telehealth access to Dr. Maghidman and his care team, 24/7 for a quick question, an urgent concern, or ongoing guidance as your plan evolves.
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Personalized Prevention Planning
A prevention plan built from your specific results and goals, revisited as your health evolves.
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Elite Specialist Network Coordination
When specialist care is needed, our team coordinates and expedites referrals through a vetted specialty physician network.
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Priority & House-Call Scheduling
Same-day or next-day appointments, with house or office visits available when appropriate.
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Continuity With a Single Physician
A deliberately small, single-physician panel, Dr. Maghidman knows you by name, history, and goals, not as a chart number.
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Total Privacy & Discretion
A discreet, white-glove experience from a dedicated clinical team, personalized to your lifestyle and built around total confidentiality.
Concierge Medicine Benefits
Time That's Actually Yours
Fifteen-minute visits and three-week waits aren't part of concierge medicine. Appointments are built around real time , enough to actually be heard, not rushed through.
A Doctor Who Remembers You
No flipping through a chart to recall who you are. With a deliberately small patient panel, your physician already knows your history before you say a word.
Ahead of the Problem, Not Behind It
Concierge care is built to catch what routine checkups often overlook, a prevention-first plan shaped around your specific risks, not a generic checklist.
Full Care, Without the Runaround
The referral that usually means weeks of phone tag and starting your story over, here it's one coordinated handoff, specialists briefed before you'd have finished waiting on hold.
Who Concierge Medicine Is Right For?
What connects them isn't profession or lifestyle... it's how they think about time and health.
- High-achieving executives, entrepreneurs, and business leaders
- Individuals who value time, privacy, and direct physician access
- Families seeking a consistent, trusted physician for the long term
- Frequent travelers who need continuity of care
- Anyone who wants a proactive, prevention-first approach to health
Concierge Medicine vs. Direct Primary Care: What Actually Sets Them Apart
Both models move away from the fifteen-minute insurance visit. But they solve different problems, and confusing the two is the most common reason patients underestimate what concierge medicine actually delivers.
Direct primary care
SM Concierge Medicine
- Membership Purpose
- Improved access to routine primary care
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A physician actively managing your ongoing health, not just your visits
- Patient Panel Size
- 400–800 patients per physician
- ✅ A deliberately small, single-physician panel
- Visit Length
- 20- 30 minutes
- ✅ Extended, unhurried visits built around you
- Diagnostic Depth
- Standard labs and basic screenings
- ✅ Comprehensive biomarker and imaging workups
- Specialist coordination
- Patient manages specialist referrals independently
- ✅ Direct coordination through an elite specialty physician network |
- Preventive Strategy
- Reactive, symptom-driven visits
- ✅ Personalized, prevention-first health planning
- Physician Access
- Message-based, next business day
- ✅ Direct line to Dr. Maghidman, same-day
Is Concierge Medicine Worth It?
For patients who value time, access, and a lasting relationship with their physician, the evidence points clearly in one direction: concierge medicine is associated with significantly higher patient and physician satisfaction compared to traditional practice models, according to a 2025 systematic review published in The American Journal of Medicine.
The same research suggests concierge medicine may reduce emergency department visits and hospitalizations, potentially generating long-term cost savings — though researchers note that evidence on clinical outcomes is still limited and an active area of study. It tends to be most valuable for high-achieving executives and entrepreneurs whose schedules can’t tolerate long waits, families who want one consistent physician for the long term, and frequent travelers who need continuity of care wherever they are. As that same review concludes, “worth it” ultimately depends less on universal statistics and more on whether reliable, unhurried access to your physician matters enough for your health and your time.