A future trend? Some doctors are charging non-conceirge, annual fees. “The official take on these extra doctoring charges, so far, is that they are allowed and legal — so long as they don’t overlap Medicare and other medical insurance coverage or deny access to Medicare patients, says Michael Preston, executive director of the Maryland State Medical Society in Baltimore. ‘What physicians are seeking to cover with these charges are costs that they historically incurred that are not being covered by insurance payments.'”
