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Re: One Medical S-1

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Post by TuringNYC »

jessaustin wrote: post #54
TuringNYC wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> Probably why they are cheap. I'm not sure why you think they are cheap. They charge insurance just as any other doctor. The annual fee is on top of that.

Insurance is the second-cheapest way for physicians to be paid. People who can afford higher quality care regularly go to physicians who charge far more.

If the GP comment is comparing OMG vs a true concierge practice, I totally agree. A $200/yr membership vs a true concierge membership is not a good comparison.

My assumption was -- the GP is thinking that "cheap" meant the $200 Annual Fee is how they get paid. No, the Annual Fee is just for the system they provide, the care is a typical insurance paid practice.

Re: One Medical S-1

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Post by rdl »

I love One Medical as a "walk in" option when visiting SFBA, Seattle, NYC, etc. For the discounted annual membership fee (available through various programs), it's even easier, even if I only use them once a year on average.

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Post by ageitgey »

mshroyer wrote: post #69
cgb223 wrote: post #10

Why do people use One Medical vs just having a doctor? Been thinking about my current medical care and wondering the advantages

For me, one reason is that One Medical's doctor/patient communication platform is secure and provides a solid customer experience. This might sound like a nit, but the previous primary care doctor I went to in the Bay Area emailed me a follow-up message in the form of a Word document—which mistakenly included several pages of someone else's medical information, too.

> This might sound like a nit, but the previous primary care doctor I went to in the Bay Area emailed me a follow-up message in the form of a Word document—which mistakenly included several pages of someone else's medical information, too.

This happens all the time with archiac or manual systems, but it is not a minor nit. That's a hairs edge away from being a reportable HIPAA breach and thus a headache for the doctor. If you made a fuss about it, they would have to report it.

Having good data security processes is not something a doctor's office can afford to ignore. That's definitely an advantage of a more technologically focused approach like One Medical.

Re: One Medical S-1

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Post by ageitgey »

privateSFacct wrote: post #30
asdfq1234 wrote: post #2

How much of their revenue can be attributed to their totally optional and very shady """annual fee""" they push on customers?

Most medical billing is far LESS transparent than a $200/year annual fee. Seriously, if you break your leg call around and try to get quotes for cost for a diagnosis and standard set and cast. You literally in most cases WILL NOT be able to talk to ANYONE who will give you this info or is willing to spend time quoting you. Even worse, you will get a random set of bills from random providers - making it VERY hard to t…

> Basically - if you are cash payor - you will show up and pay what they surprise you with at the end.

And worse, you will get billed 3x-5x the rate the provider negotiated with any random insurance company.

Re: One Medical S-1

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Post by celdon25 »

dbcurtis wrote: post #62
karl11 wrote: post #61

Medicine comes down to human-to-human interactions (doctor and patient) and those are really hard to scale. One Medical is basically a novelty offering nice offices and predictable visit times. It takes some of the most common complaints you have about your doctor and removes them. In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, however, the quality of doctor will not be super important to you if you are…

> In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, Hmmm... never would have guessed that. In my experience, the One Medical doctor that my wife and child see is excellent. I've met him and think he is great. A colleague is also extremely pleased with her One Medical doctor. Maybe you just had bad luck with your doctor selection? I don't mean to invalidate your experience, but it certainly varies from my ex…

I've had 4 different doctors from One Medical. One of them was pretty good but I wouldn't recommend the other three. However the email access and online scheduling makes up for it. And office staff is actually not brain dead like I've see elsewhere.

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Post by hnmullany »

Godel_unicode wrote: post #70
dbcurtis wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, Hmmm... never would have guessed that. In my experience, the One Medical doctor that my wife and child see is excellent. I've met him and think he is great. A colleague is also extremely pleased with her One Medical doctor. Maybe you just had bad luck with your doctor selection? I don't mean to invalidate your experience, but it certainly varies from my ex…

I'm always really curious what people mean when they say a doctor is "great". Is this just biases about smiling and seemingly having it together, or are there medical aspects to the greatness which set them apart as doctors? How does an average person know if your doctor is, in fact, doing a good job?

Well my one medical doctor missed an important part of a medical test. I had to point out that he had missed it.
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