What is SIMPD?

The Society for Innovative Medical Practice Design (SIMPD) is an organization of physicians promoting a direct financial relationship with their patients in order to restore the integrity of the patient-physician relationship. It is our mission to ensure that physicians and patients retain the right to design and implement practices that enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, service, and value of healthcare.

Our goals are to:

  1. Educate individuals, employers, and physicians about why returning to a system where doctors work for patients, not insurance companies nor the government, is the only feasible way to control escalating healthcare costs.
  2. Equip established physicians with the means to convert their practice to a direct pay model and help those who already operate a direct practice to grow.
  3. Convince lawmakers that the only cure to our broken medical payment system is to redefine health insurance and allow doctors to work for our patients, instead of insurance companies and the government.

We believe that direct practices are possible in most markets.  Local demographics will dictate the structure of each individual practice.  This is not just healthcare for the rich as portrayed by the media.  It is a significant component of the cure to our broken healthcare system.

 
The Society for Innovative Practice Design brings together physicians who understand and accept the challenge of bridging the gap between the theory and the practice of consumer driven medicine... [read more]
American medical care has been through a very rough last 2 decades. While the price of care and health insurance has increased at double digit rates, physician reimbursement corrected for inflation has been stagnant... [read more]
 
Right now American medicine is good, but not as good as it should be given that we pay more per citizen for our care than any other country in the world. Most of us are mystified when we can?t reach our physician, wait for hours in the waiting room or find that routine care appointments are being scheduled months in the future... [read more]
Employers have been the obvious financial victims of the current insurance driven medical care mess. They have braved insatiable double digit inflation in medical care and medical insurance costs. This might be excusable if it had also resulted in improvements in medical care itself, but such has not been the case... [read more]

Press Releases
CONCIERGE MEDICINE: Old Fashioned Patient Care - Part II

On Tuesday August 5, 2008, Part II of this dynamic audio conference event illuminates that there is an entire organization (a nonprofit organization) dedicated to helping you transition to and succeed in your concierge medicine practice! The Society for Innovative Medical Practice Design (SIMPD) was founded in 2003 for the purpose of furthering the needs of physicians interested in innovative medical practices. [read more]
In the Media
Doctor's Persistence Saves CEO's Life

Grateful CEO gives top executives fringe benefit: a Direct Access Personal Physician [read more]
Press Releases
Save the Date: Concierge Medicine - Old Fashioned Patient Care Part 1

How often do you get to what you believe to be the end of a routine 15-minute office visit with one of your patients only to have that patient blurt out a more serious medical concern or question just as you are wrapping up to leave the room? It has happened to everyone from time to time, the dreaded "doorknob syndrome!" What do you do? Where do you find the time? Do you yearn for a practice where you have time... REAL, QUALITY TIME... to spend with ALL of your patients? Time to study, time to read and consult with specialists? Time to act as a teacher and time to individualize your treatment and recovery plans? If so, you are not alone! [read more]