24/7 Access to Your Personal Physician
Why Become a Benefactor
A Broken Doctor-Patient Relationship
Many patients today feel like their doctor is too busy for them. Choices are sharply limited by insurance, costly premiums and co-pays. Rather than focusing on your medical concerns, doctors today spend too much time on authorizations and payment. Consider the statistics:
- Nationally, the average primary care office visit lasts only five to seven minutes. Doctors simply lack the time needed to fully diagnose problems and to develop a "big picture" understanding of a patient’s health.
- The typical family practice physician has approximately 2,600 patients. Such a large patient load makes it virtually impossible for doctors to develop a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of patients, their concerns and their medical histories.
Healthy Bodies, Peaceful Minds
Our Lady of Hope Clinic’s concierge style of primary care provides patients with an opportunity to escape from the typical insurance-based clinic model. A modest annual or monthly contribution qualifies you to receive the following benefits:
- 24/7 access to your personal physician. Illness and injury don’t always happen during office hours. Our benefactors receive the unique opportunity to reach their personal physician—not the on-call nurse or doctor—by phone or email 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Unlimited care. Our benefactors are free to schedule office visits as often as necessary without having to worry about racking up frequent co-pays or insurance claims.
- Extended appointment times. At Our Lady of Hope Clinic, we devote a full half hour or more to each patient visit. This makes it possible for us to improve the quality of care by developing a comprehensive understanding of every patient.
- Same-day scheduling. It can be frustrating to wait days or weeks to see your doctor. Because we limit our patient load, our benefactors get same-day access to their physician. Appointments are made either online or by phone and are coordinated to fit your schedule.
- Easy in, easy out. We all know how it feels to watch time pass in the waiting room. At Our Lady of Hope Clinic, a 2:00 appointment means a 2:00 appointment. It’s never been quicker or easier to see a doctor on a busy workday or school day.
- A doctor who knows your name and your health concerns. Our providers will accept no more than 300 benefactors each. This restores the doctor-patient relationship so that patients can be certain their personal physician knows and understands their health concerns.
- Continuity of coverage in the hospital. If you are hospitalized, your personal physician will be able to visit you at St. Mary’s and Meriter Hospitals.
This concierge model of care empowers patients - not insurance companies - to take charge of their own care. Busy schedules, high co-pays and costly premiums are no longer obstacles to excellent primary care. And patients never receive a bill or pay a co-pay at Our Lady of Hope Clinic.
Building a Healthier Community
Our benefactors take comfort in the knowledge that they are contributing to the well-being of their neighbors in need. The annual benefactor contribution makes it possible for us to give more than half of our clinic visits away to uninsured individuals free of charge. For more information, click here.
A Financially Savvy Decision
Enrolling as a benefactor isn't just a wise health care choice. Nor is it simply a generous charitable decision. It can also be financially savvy for health care consumers.
Individuals who purchase their health insurance directly can often break even or actually save money by raising their deductible and enrolling as benefactors for primary care. Click here for examples of how other benefactors have saved money.
Furthermore, it might be possible to write off the benefactor contribution as a tax deduction, either as a business expense, medical expense or a charitable contribution. Consult your tax preparer for more information.
Benefactor Medical Service Contracts for this year are:
| Benefactor | $1,200 |
| Benefactor Couple | $2,300 |
| Each Benefactor < 35 years old | subtract $300 |
| Each Benefactor > 60 years old | add $300 |
| Child age < 19 years Full-time student <23 years old | $500 |
Click here for a printable benefactor application.
For additional information on how you can become a benefactor, contact Steve Karlen.
