How Much Are Concierge Medicine and Direct Primary Care Growing?

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The future of federally funded research at Harvard Medical School — supported by taxpayers and done in service to humanity — remains uncertain. Learn more. A new analysis led by researchers at Harvard Medical School’s Blavatnik Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, and Johns Hopkins University provides crucial insight into how the rapid growth in concierge and direct primary care (DPC) practices is transforming the market for primary care in the United States. The researchers found that in just five years, from 2018 to 2023, the number of concierge and DPC practices grew by 83 percent…
By JAKE MILLER

Harvard Medical School’s Top Science News of 2025

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Amid unprecedented challenges to research and higher education at Harvard University and across the United States this year, Harvard Medical School scientists continued to push the boundaries of biomedical discovery and health care delivery. Get more HMS news Studies conducted at HMS and its affiliated hospitals — often in collaboration with other research institutions and biopharmaceutical companies — deepened understanding of human biology, illuminated mechanisms of common and rare diseases, contributed to development of new treatments and diagnostic tools, and worked to ensure that the best…