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FairCareMD.com - Where Doctors and Patients can agree on prices that are fair to both Logo Company FairCare LLC
http://www.FairCareMD.com
Founded: 11/16/2009
City: New York, New York
Country: United States
CEO: Alex B. Fair
Founders: Alex Fair, Kathleen Acer, Ph.D.
Category: Other Funding: Self-Funded
Tags: healthcare, medical, dental, prices, shopping, bidding, deals, healthcare, disruptive Employees: 6-15

What does FairCare LLC do?

FairCareMD allows patients paying for their own medical or dental care to request and contract for services directly with local Physicians and Dentists. They can either request help finding a doctor for a service they need or select from the doctors in the system already.

Doctors can also list their services with prices for direct-paying patients and allow patients to request even better prices through an automated matching system.

With verified reviews, great content, and fair price assistance, FairCareMD allows patients and Doctors to connect and create great relationships.

How are they different?

Our system is extremely disruptive to the healthcare and dental pricing systems that hide fair prices from patients. If you have ever looked at your Explanation of Benefits from your insurance company you can easily see that they pay only a fraction of what you would pay if you walked into the doctor’s office and said you were paying directly. This is fair to neither doctors nor patients. FairCareMD seeks to correct this problem by cutting out the middle man and letting doctors and patients contract quickly and directly.

We also offer our Verified Offering Review system that only allows real patients to review their doctors and lets the doctor moderate up to 25% of the comments (more than that and they are removed from the system).

Finally, our system allows providers and patients to give and get care how they want to, not how some corporation wants it to be performed. With doctors and patients in control, medicine is changing on FairCareMDs. People are developing new paradigms for care, cloning them, and changing them daily.

Why could FairCare LLC be BIG?

More people are shopping for care in the US than even and with no good marketplace, and more doctors opting out of insurance plan participation, FairCareMD fills this need just in time.

We also have designed the system to work well in other countries and for other professions.

We believe FairCareMD is the healthcare reform we all can use today. For the 46 million Americans uninsured, the 49 million with high deductible insurance plans, and the 150 million without dental insurance, FairCareMD will reduce costs significantly AND get doctors paid better. This is because it cuts the middlemen out and renders them obsolete.

How they plan to make money:

Initially we are charging providers small subscriptions and advertising. Later we will allow for sponsored listings. Finally, we will pursue an agency transaction model that allows patients to pay though our payment processing systems.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.FairCareMD.com

6 Responses to “FairCareMD.com – Where Doctors and Patients Agree on Fair Prices”

  1. Arthur G. Degen says:

    Good luck for a great concept.

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  2. Arthur G. Degen says:

    Good luck on such a great concept.

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  3. Beatriz Bolton says:

    How do I vote? Also, sorry to point this out but there is a typo above in the sentence that starts: Finally, we will pursue an agency transaction model that allows patients to pay THROUGH (instead of though).

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  5. Christine Galan says:

    Good idea. No government, no insurance companies better prices and better care!

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  6. Alex Fair says:

    Thanks to all for your support. We think it is a cool idea too! The site is working and we are doing deals daily for people – and they are saving over 33% on average! The providers are lowering list prices too as they see how the system works. So go ahead, get what you need now for a price that is fair. Don’t see what you need, create a custom offer and we will get it for you!

    Not just healthcare reform, but one you can do yourself. No government or insurance required. From ACL replacement to a wellness screening, get your FairCare today!

    Best Regards,
    Alex

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