What is Concierge Medicine?

A concierge or membership-based practice focuses on enhancing the physician-patient relationship. Members of the concierge program pay an affordable fee to take advantage of a wide array of enhancements to facilitate a more unhurried, connected, and personalized approach to healthcare. Concierge physicians typically have smaller patient panels, which means they can spend more time seeing patients. 

Concierge medicine provides an enhanced healthcare experience, offering a variety of amenities that are not typically covered by medical plans. These unique amenities include:

• Same/next-day appointments

• Extended patients visits

• Direct 24/7 connectivity to your concierge physician

• Hospital visits and home visits

These unique services ensure you receive the customized, one-on-one attention you need, exactly when you need it.

Office visits will be charged to your health insurance.  We accept Blue Cross, Medicare, United Health, Aetna, Harvard Pilgrim, Cigna, Humana, and Tufts.  

The membership fee is not covered by your health insurance plan and is your individual responsibility. However, at your discretion, you can submit the membership fee to any flexible spending account, health reimbursement account, or medical savings account in which you participate, but the membership program makes no representation that any part of the membership fee will qualify to be reimbursed from any such account. It is the Member’s responsibility to receive approval from their benefits administrator as to the amount that may be reimbursable. 

Dr. Peter Shorter M.D. is accepting new patients on a first come first serve basis.  Feel free to call or email the office to set up an appointment.