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A concierge service can be immensely helpful. My company got bought by a giant tech company in 2019, when it happened, a) I was 4 weeks into a 6 week open heart surgery recovery and b) they changed my insurance causing me to lose my existing hospital and all my current doctors.
The concierge set me up with a new hospital and new doctors. When I started having post surgical complications that would have killed me, and the new hospital told me I'd have to wait 3 months to see someone, the concierge got that time cut down to 2 weeks.
I mean, I still almost died, and wouldn't have if I had been able to keep my existing insurance, but the concierge took care of things that I was in no shape to deal with.
Think of them like the medical version of a hotel concierge. "Hey, can you arrange for a cab to meet me here at 2:45 PM?"
"Certainly sir."
So basically something that should be commonplace to navigate the hellscape that is US healthcare.
Pretty much!
"My primary care physician retired, can you find me a new one?" that kind of thing.
Maybe that would have been helpful when my doctors office closed suddenly (permanently) on a Friday last year and I've spent the entire time until now just trying to get a primary doctor again that wasn't an hour away. Whenever I call its "Sure, here's 50 numbers for an endodontist that does retreats!" none of those numbers do that