Concierge medicine on call in NoCo

FORT COLLINS – You can call it concierge medicine or boutique medicine or even wealth care, but David Abbey, M.D., calls it the kind of care he always wanted to provide.

“There’s been a lot of changes in primary care in the last 10 to 15 years and more barriers between patients and doctors,´ said Abbey, who with his partner at the Internal Medicine Clinic in Fort Collins, Robert Homburg, M.D., recently switched to the relatively new concierge model. “The (traditional) system seemed to be getting out of control.”

With reduced reimbursement from insurers, many primary care physicians have a financial incentive…