Growing trend lets patients pay for custom services
A year ago, Leah Kannensohn, 23, awoke before dawn covered in sweat. Her chest constricted and her arms fell numb. The pain radiated up to her jaw.
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By Jill Coley
The Post and Courier
Monday, September 10, 2007
Dr. David Albenberg,
Access Healthcare
235 Calhoun St. Charleston. 853-8870
A Third Year in a row for Access Healthcare to be voted Best Physician in Charleston by the Charleston City Paper.
Dr. David Albenberg,
Access Healthcare
235 Calhoun St. Charleston. 853-8870
Access Healthcare was voted best Physician for the second year in 2005 City Paper Best Of.
Dr. David Albenberg,
Access Healthcare
235 Calhoun St. Charleston. 853-8870
Dr. David Albenberg’s “boutique” medical practice has changed the way many feel about visiting the doctor. Dr. Albenberg’s practice is located in an old Charleston home on Calhoun Street. He lives on the second floor and works on the first. He makes house calls and is open for after-hours visits. Can’t wait by the phone for those lab results? That’s OK, he’ll e-mail them to you. Some may not be crazy about Dr. A refusing to accept insurance, patients file and arrange reimbursement on their own, but readers found the new concept liberating in this age of health insurance-managed health care. Without the paperwork, Dr. Albenberg can spend more time with his patients, especially since relocating his practice downtown and cutting his patient load by half. —Molly Cinquemani
Friday, June 27, 2003
BY JONATHAN MAZE
Of The Post and Courier Staff
It wasn’t easy for Dr. David Albenberg to start Access Healthcare, the area’s first “boutique” medical practice.
“I haven’t had a paycheck in nine months,” Albenberg said last month. “I sold two cars. I moved. I sold everything to make this project work.”
So, even though there are many eyes in the health care world trained on Albenberg and his efforts, he doesn’t believe anybody will follow his lead until he’s shown that a practice like his can succeed.
Housed in a renovated 117-year-old house on Calhoun Street, Access Healthcare is different from most physicians’ offices. Albenberg lives on the house’s second floor, sees people after hours and makes house calls. (more…)
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2003
BY JONATHAN MAZE
Of The Post and Courier Staff
Dr. David Albenberg’s practice is housed in a 117-year-old renovated residence on Calhoun Street, which creates an immediate sense of history for patients who drop in. In a just as dramatic break from the modern-day, he’ll live above the office, see people after hours and even make house calls.
Least conventionally, Albenberg’s office will not accept insurance. Instead, his patients will pay their own bills, out of their own pockets and in full. If they choose to, it will be up to them to seek reimbursements from BlueCross, Cigna, Carolina Care Plan or whatever other health insurance company they use.
What Albenberg is doing has come to be known as boutique medicine.
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