{"id":89585,"date":"2019-04-16T20:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T03:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/a-doctor-raised-more-than-250-million-to-create-a-new-kind-of-clinic-that-charges-a-monthly-fee-and-it-could-be-the-future-of-medicine"},"modified":"2019-04-16T20:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T03:42:21","slug":"a-doctor-raised-more-than-250-million-to-create-a-new-kind-of-clinic-that-charges-a-monthly-fee-and-it-could-be-the-future-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/a-doctor-raised-more-than-250-million-to-create-a-new-kind-of-clinic-that-charges-a-monthly-fee-and-it-could-be-the-future-of-medicine","title":{"rendered":"A doctor raised more than $250 million to create a new kind of clinic that charges a monthly fee, and it could be the future of medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-doctor-raised-more-than-250-million-to-create-a-new-kind-of-clinic-that-charges-a-monthly-fee-and-it-could-be-the-future-of-medicine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li> In the future, going to the doctor\u2019s office might start to feel different, with you or your insurer paying a monthly fee for routine access to your doctor without paying a copay. <\/li>\n<li> It\u2019s the model for Iora Health, a startup that works with \u201csponsors\u201d \u2014 mainly employers or private health plans for the elderly (known as Medicare Advantage) \u2014 that cover the monthly fee. Iora also built out care teams of nurses and other health professionals that can help the doctors within the practice. <\/li>\n<li> We spoke with Iora\u2019s CEO Rushika Fernandopulle about how he built a company that\u2019s raised more than $250 million with plans to grow to 50 practices around the US by the end of 2019. <\/li>\n<li> Fernandopulle is one of Business Insider\u2019s 10 people transforming healthcare. <\/li>\n<li> Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/BusinessInsider.com\">BusinessInsider.com<\/a> for more stories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fifteen years ago, Rushika Fernandopulle had a radical idea.<\/p>\n<p>A primary care doctor by training, he had been treating patients in the standard, insurance-backed way. But he started to realize that wasn\u2019t working, and insurance wasn\u2019t covering what he wanted to do for patients.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rushika-fernandopulle-iora-health-plan-to-change-the-way-you-see-your-doctor-2019-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the future, going to the doctor\u2019s office might start to feel different, with you or your insurer paying a monthly fee for routine access to your doctor without paying a copay. It\u2019s the model for Iora Health, a startup that works with \u201csponsors\u201d \u2014 mainly employers or private health plans for the elderly (known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}