Honesty, Transparency & Trust

Take charge of your healthcare with MD For Patients

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Access to world-renowned specialists is right at your fingertips.

You don’t want just another opinion – you want a better opinion. Our transparent service model allows you to create a customized plan that works for you. Whether you have a quick question or need a full case review, our highly experienced, specialized physician team will perform a collaborative, interdisciplinary, comprehensive review of your history and records to date, providing a written report of our assessment and recommendations.

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Complete the online contact form

One of our care coordinators will then be in touch within 24 hours to discuss how we can best help you.

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Speak directly with your consultant

An initial consultation with our triage physician will assess your concerns and determine the best consultant for you.

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Receive your comprehensive case review

Our consultant will review your records and contact you to discuss their findings and opinions with you and your physician if required.

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Ongoing aftercare and support

We remain available to you in the future for any follow up, complex conditions, if a new issue arises, or simply if you have any questions.

Transparent pricing & plans

We do not charge a single flat fee for consultations because we understand that the circumstances and needs of each patient are unique. We instead tailor each consultation to the needs and requests of each patient. Our initial consultations start at $999, then you can choose the plan that works best for you.

Servicing as unique as you

Unlike other clinics, MD for Patients offers bespoke services that cater to each unique patient. From your initial assessment with our expert ER Physician, to a virtual call with a top specialist or just a quick question with our nurse, we let you dictate the service terms – you’re in the driver’s seat.

Membership

If you have a critical illness or chronic condition and require regular checkups, a membership with MD For Patients may be for you. Our consultants assess your active health issues and can provide ongoing advice regarding new developments and test results as needed. Speak to a member of the team now for the ultimate peace of mind.
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We believe in honesty and transparency. Whether you have a quick question on a report, require a full assessment to correct a misdiagnosis or want an opinion on care received, MDFP will provide a fully customized expert opinion based on your requirements.

Frequently Asked Questions

This second look at your case may help to:

• Clarify the cause of persistent or new symptoms.
• Reassure you that your working diagnoses and treatment plan are correct and appropriate.
• Adjust your working diagnosis and treatment plan.
• Better inform a prognosis.
• Educate you.
• Provide you with peace of mind regarding your own healthcare.
• Enable your physicians to reach a sub-specialist easily to discuss your care, if you wish.
You may want to get a second opinion due to suboptimal exam distribution, or the phenomenon in which the most qualified expert is usually not the interpreter of an exam. For example, roughly 60% of radiology exams are not read by physicians with added qualifications in the relevant sub-specialty of radiology.
You’d think that all MRI scans of the brain, for instance, are interpreted by neuroradiologists. That would make sense, but it is not the norm. In fact it is the exception in modern United States healthcare for a brain MRI to be interpreted by a fellowship-trained neuroradiologist. Moreover, only a minority of diagnostic medical imaging examinations in the United States today are actually interpreted by sub-specialized radiologists. Most are interpreted by general radiologists – not by radiologists with fellowship training in the sub-specialty relevant to the case at hand.
If you want to make sure that a sub-specialist reviews your exams, contact us.
We will match your case to a physician consultant with training and experience well-suited to your case. Our physicians are experienced experts who can gather complete and accurate information about each case and then conduct a thorough, comprehensive case review. We provide un-hurried, thoughtful, well-informed second opinions and recommendations, and then communicate with patients – and their physicians, if desired – regarding the basis for our opinions.

We can work directly with patients, parents of minor patients, and legal representatives of patients such as family members who have legal durable healthcare power of attorney.  We follow patient confidentiality-protecting protocols.

Here’s how the process works for our patients:

When you request an initial consultation, MD For Patients will arrange a teleconference between you and our triage physician. The focus of that consultation is to understand your questions, medical needs, and history. After your initial consultation, we will custom-build a specialist team and treatment plan tailored to meet your medical needs. You will have an opportunity to review our proposed treatment plan so that you can make an informed determination about moving forward with your assigned world-class specialist. 

The goal of the entire process is to help you.

One of the most important founding principles of MD For Patients is to improve each patient’s understanding of their own health. This is why, throughout the process, patients are encouraged to ask any questions they may have.

This includes after the patient’s tele-conference or phone call with one of our physicians, because we know that often patients can’t think of all of their followup questions during an initial consultation. Patients are usually too stressed processing all the new and important information they are receiving to think through the ramifications of the information immediately – and then come up with additional questions later.  This is a completely normal, common phenomenon that occurs after a patient or parent has had some time to process new information – particularly when the information is as critical and personal to them as is healthcare.

Because there is no third-party payer involved, and no employer-mandated productivity metric to meet, the physician consultant can spend as much time as needed to gather the information they need to consider the case fully, and the patient can experience one or more un-rushed discussions with the physician consultant in order to understand the opinions and recommendations of the physician. Providers at MD For Patients are committed to communicating their findings and opinions directly to patients with dignity, compassion, transparency, and honesty, while encouraging patients to ask follow-up questions immediately or later, once the patient has had time to consider the information that has been conveyed to them, and to recall questions they meant to ask, or to ask new questions they did not think to ask at the first visit. At MD for Patients, we encourage you to communicate with your physician consultants directly, because better communication means a better outcome. Communication problems including inaccurate and incomplete histories frequently cause diagnostic errors.  When patients try to discuss their imaging examination findings and reports with an original interpreting radiologist, even when they have helpful additional information for the radiologist to take into consideration, they are usually unable to reach or communicate directly with that radiologist.  Often, even their physicians who ordered the exams in the first place are unable to discuss findings with the original interpreting radiologist or obtain a consultation or second opinion for clarification, or to update the radiologist with new data. Information that came to light after the original interpretation was reported may not be taken into account – and the report may never be updated to reflect it.
Patients submit payment to the practice directly for all services.
By removing insurers and healthcare corporations from the doctor/patient relationship, and returning to a model wherein patients are customers and physicians treat patients with the patience, compassion, and dignity with which they would themselves want to be treated, MD For Patients raises the bar on the process of medical diagnosis. Our goals are improved diagnostic accuracy, clearer and more readily available physician/patient communication, collaborative relationships between patients and physicians, and improved collaboration and communication between physician colleagues themselves.  We focus on the needs of the patient and on providing each patient with the most accurate professional assessment and advice possible.

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