Yearly Appt at home. House Call

So, I just found out there is a company in the area I live that bills insurance that provides urgent care needs at your home but also does yearly well exams including pap and breast exams in the comforts of your home.

How many of you would have a REAL doctor or NP come to your home and do a full yearly examination? Sounds convenient but awkward in a way to have a physician come to my home to do full yearly exam but sounds exciting to add an extra kink to the real examination process. I wonder for safety reasons if they have two medical providers come out for a speculum exam?

Hmmmm... I might just have to try this resource. Naughty, naughty... 😉

That sounds apocryphal. Can you provide a link? It would be interesting to read about.

What area are you in that might provide this service?

In Florida there are several home call physician companies that come out if your sick or if your schedule is just to busy to do your yearly physical. I've never tried it myself but have spoken with a couple who have had it done and hearing the experience of watching a physician conduct a physical on each other in the comforts of your own home made it much easier for them to jump right into bed once the physician left to make the whole experience extra memorable.

I was going to say we have them here too, only we call them prostitutes, but I did a little googling and if your last name is gates or whatever, hey, you can get a doctor to see you at home... Here are their prices, plucked from the web.. They only do NYC and Staten Island (for $250 per hour of commute and not sure how they commute)

INSURANCE, MEDICARE & MEDICAID

NOT ACCEPTED FOR PHYSICIAN HOUSE VISITS

(COST $1,500 - $2,500 FLAT FEE IN NYC)

Doctor House Call "URGENT": [disrupting our current schedule with physician arrival requested by patient within 60 to 90 minutes of patient call]: $2500 to $5000 (subject to availability)

Doctor House Call by Specialist Physician: $3,000-$4,000 + cost of procedure [approximately $1000 to $5,000 per procedure, please contact us for details]

So, if you have an extra 3 to 5K burning a hole in your pocket, you can get a doctor out to your house to give you and your SO your jollies. Ah, the joys of excess money!

The inpatient facility I was at used a service like that. There was always a doctor and a nurse there.

I wonder if they bring their own examination table or if they just use a bed.

Here is one company that I found. Looking around their site it says they only charge $99.00 for their service. That's cheaper than what my doctor charges.

https://heal.com/care/womens-health-services/

You actually have me thinking about selling my practice and setting this up in Central NJ! Work from home, take it easy do 5 WWC exams a week instead of 10 a day and make more money..... Time to re-evaluate priorities, maybe!

Omg, to have a real Dr or NP do a wellness visit or annual exam at my home would be great. It would be funny if I had the guts to break out my exam table with the knee crutch stirrups, a mayo tray with all of the basic necessities on it for her or him to use. Including a 10" Rigid Sigmoidoscope for a thorough rectal exam lol.

Their goes my imagination again. I would never have the guts to break out my Medfet goodies. Maybe leave something partially visible 😃 I am going to see if my Insurance allows annual house call physicals. It would make it much easier on me for sure. I think I would be a lot more at ease.

I really doubt they bring a portable exam table and just use the patient's bed or couch. Either way, it would be so much easier to set up a video cam to capture my exam for my own personal viewing pleasure.

Love the reality of an MD or NP coming to my home to perform a thorough and complete physical exam. It seems more intimate and I'd be able to begin masturbation immediately after the exam

So, I live in the Northwest and this is the link. They offer to come to your home for urgent care needs and yearly exams.

https://tablerockmobilemedicine.com

Urgent Care

Earaches

Sore throat

Sinus infections

Influenza

Stomach flu/food poisoning

UTIs

Rashes

Coughs/Asthma exacerbation/Bronchitis/Pneumonia/RSV

Dehydration

Women’s Health

Orthopedic injuries

And much more

Wellness Physicals

Women’s Health (Breast Exams, pelvic exams, pap smears): performed by Jennifer Navarro, Women’s Health NP

Adult Yearly Physical

Includes yearly labs (CBC, CMP, TSH, fasting lipids)

Sports/School/Scouts/Pre-Employment Physicals

Influenza Vaccines

They offer to come to your home for urgent care needs and yearly exams.

Interesting idea. I suppose something like that where they come to you works well in a rural area like Idaho. I doubt it would work as well in a more populated and dense urban area.

Interesting idea. I suppose something like that where they come to you works well in a rural area like Idaho. I doubt it would work as well in a more populated and dense urban area.

Exactly, there is a doc on every street corner.

Exactly, there is a doc on every street corner.

In addition, they would spend most of their day stuck in traffic going from one patient to the next. Not a very profitable business model in an urban setting.

True, Idaho isn't urban state with high population but fastest growing state currently.

The point of this post was how many would opt to have a yearly pelvic exam at your home and not a cold office setting?

reggind said

I was going to say we have them here too, only we call them prostitutes, but I did a little googling and if your last name is gates or whatever, hey, you can get a doctor to see you at home... Here are their prices, plucked from the web.. They only do NYC and Staten Island (for $250 per hour of commute and not sure how they commute)

INSURANCE, MEDICARE & MEDICAID

NOT ACCEPTED FOR PHYSICIAN HOUSE VISITS

(COST $1,500 - $2,500 FLAT FEE IN NYC)

Doctor House Call "URGENT": [disrupting our current schedule with physician arrival requested by patient within 60 to 90 minutes of patient call]: $2500 to $5000 (subject to availability)

Doctor House Call by Specialist Physician: $3,000-$4,000 + cost of procedure [approximately $1000 to $5,000 per procedure, please contact us for details]

So, if you have an extra 3 to 5K burning a hole in your pocket, you can get a doctor out to your house to give you and your SO your jollies. Ah, the joys of excess money!

This is concierge medicine. They are not prostitutes. You get very personalized care at almost a moments notice if you need it. My husband and his partners have a similar arrangement for their themselves and their spouses. I can't think of a time when we ever needed a house call.

You pay for what you get. This is not covered by insurance, usually a flat yearly retainer fee plus an additional fee for procedures.

There's certainly a trend in medicine to niche practices that add convenience for a price. My experience in anything like this occurred when I was a medical resident in the 70s. I moonlighted doing physical exams for an insurance broker on clients to whom he was selling high dollar life insurance policies. I'd do maybe a dozen exams a week in which I took my medical bag and EKG machine to the client's home or office and did a brief physical and EKG on the guy...or woman. BP and auscultation of the heart were most important. No gyn or rectal exams. Each took, including the history, maybe 20 minutes--or 30 with an EKG. Can't say I enjoyed it but it was fairly easy extra money when I wasn't making much as a resident.

I did not say they were prostitutes. I said I was going to say they were, before I did some research. It is all there in black and white, or whatever your screen colors are set to..