Concierge Medicine Program
Unlimited. Proactive. Modern.
For a longer, healthier life.
Our concierge medicine program provides a comprehensive, continuous, and modern approach to health and vitality. Our tightly limited patient panel ensures you get the time and attention you need, with no barriers between you and your personal physician. This option is available only after completing a Longevity Health Assessment, since we cannot provide comprehensive, healthspan-oriented medical care without the information it provides. Like our Longevity Health Assessment, nothing in Iowa compares.
Concierge membership includes:
Annually updated Longevity Health Assessment and personalized report
Unlimited, prioritized in-person or remote consultations with Dr. Abendroth
Direct access to Dr. Abendroth by text, phone, or email — zero gatekeepers
Private waiting area, for the rare time you might need to wait at all
Ongoing management of your health optimization plan, including medications, hormones, weight loss, supplements, fitness plan, and more
Medical management of other problems as they arise
No-cost repeat in-office studies like body composition, VO2 max, Fibroscan liver elastography, and more
Deeply discounted cash pricing on labs — or use your insurance for labs
Priority access to discounted radiology services at Innovative Radiology in West Des Moines — or use your insurance for radiology services
Expedited referrals to the best specialists in the United States when needed
Oura ring wearable sleep tracking ring
Personalized, interactive, AI-powered health dashboard for consolidating, tracking, and analyzing all your health data, including labs, body composition, bone density, and wearables data, including sleep, steps, activity, HRV, resting heart rate, CGM data, and more from sources like Oura Ring, Apple Watch, Whoop, Withings, and many others
Health Coaching with nurse Melissa, certified health and wellness coach
Members-only pricing on cosmetic services like Botox, microneedling, medical-grade skin care products, etc.
Members-only pricing on professional-grade supplements
And more
FAQ
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We do not take insurance payment of any kind. By keeping insurance out of our practice, we can provide you with the level of quality, attention, & time we think is best, perform the testing we think is important for you, and provide the treatments we think you need.
When you go to a typical clinic that lives on insurance payments, your insurance company is the customer, not you, and they dictate the terms. You and the doctor are both cogs in the machine of the medical/insurance industrial complex, optimized not for your health, but for the profit of healthcare systems and insurance companies. It isn’t right, doesn’t lead to the best outcomes, and doesn’t promote true health.
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Medicare patients pay an annual retainer fee for services not covered by Medicare, such as direct physician access. We are required by the government to bill Medicare for all services covered by Medicare. Please contact us to join our Medicare waitlist.
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It meets the definition and exceeds it. Virtually all DPC practices are superior to insurance-driven practices because they cut out the insurance companies. We are different from most DPC and concierge practices in that we have integrated an advanced Medicine 3.0 model focused on longevity and health optimization, not just reactive disease management — although we do that, too.
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For patients not on Medicare, our Direct Pay rates are currently:
Age 18-39: $4560/year
Age 40-49: $5040/year
Age 50-59: $5520/year
Age 60-69 $6240/year
Age 70-79: $6960/year
Age 80-89: $7920/year
Age 90+: $8900/year
Membership can billed annually or monthly. It includes an annually updated Precision Health Assessment (labs not included on subsequent assessments as they become more personalized over time), and 50% of the cost of your initial Precision Health Assessment can be applied to your first year of membership.