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Cost · Charlotte, NC

What concierge medicine costs in Charlotte.

Most concierge practices will not tell you how the money works. Here is mine: one published fee to begin, testing billed at my actual cost with the invoice visible, and no markup on anything I order.

The short answer

Two numbers, never one: the fee, and the testing at cost.

How the fee works

Precision Health Consultation·$500 one time, where everything begins

The Precision Partnership fee is discussed after your Consultation, once we both know it is the right fit. I keep a small panel so I can keep the highest level of service for my patients.

Keep your existing PCP

Longevity-focused care without comprehensive primary care can be arranged separately. That scope and its fee are settled together.

Testing and other third-party services billed separately, at my actual cost.

The only fee I publish is the Precision Health Consultation, $500 one time, and everything begins there. The membership fee is discussed after your Consultation, once we both know it is the right fit. What it covers is published in full: direct physician access during business hours, ongoing virtual care and appropriate follow-up between reviews, and two home visits plus two virtual reviews per year across the Charlotte metro. If you already have a primary care physician you intend to keep, I can also work with you in a longevity-focused role without comprehensive primary care. I keep a small panel so I can keep the highest level of service for my patients.

The testing is billed separately at my actual cost with the invoice visible. Medications and imaging pass through the same way. I make $0 markup on any of it, which means the only thing you are ever paying me for is the thinking.

You keep your insurance. This is not insurance and it does not replace it. It replaces the fifteen-minute visit and the three-day portal reply.

Line by line

Where every dollar goes.

Concierge medicine costs at Tagge Health in Charlotte, NC, broken out by what you pay and whether it carries any markup.
What you payMarked up?
Membership (the all-in year, itemized)Discussed after your ConsultationThe fee is for my time and your access, and it is the whole business model. What it includes is published in full on the membership page.
The Precision Health ConsultationOne thorough visit, flatOne thorough visit, and the plan is yours to keep.
Blood panels and specialty testingMy actual cost, invoice visibleNo. $0 markup.
MedicationsMy actual costNo. $0 markup.
SupplementsMaximum physician discount through FullscriptNo margin built in.
Two home visits plus two virtual reviews per year, Charlotte metroIncluded in the membershipNo visit fee, no copay.
The testing, on a packageOnce a year, or quarterlyNo. At my actual cost, invoice visible, and always quoted as about because at cost varies.
Imaging, when your risk warrants itAt cost, referred outNo. And no bundled whole-body scan you may not need.

Labs and medications at cost is a different thing from included, and the distinction is worth being precise about: you pay what I pay, and you see the invoice.

The testing

What the panels actually cost.

There are 9 panels on the a la carte menu, running $197 to $799 for a non-member. That price is built from the lab work itself, the small draw and authorization fees the lab charges, and my fee for the written interpretation and the plan. Nothing else is added to it.

Members pay no separate interpretation fee. Reading your data is what the membership is. Testing is individualized rather than packaged: I order what can meaningfully change a decision, with targeted rechecks as your biology warrants, all at what I pay. You will not receive a bill you did not agree to in advance.

Comparing fairly

Three questions to ask any concierge practice.

Concierge fees in the Charlotte market vary widely and most are quoted only after a consultation, so a straight price comparison is hard to do honestly. What you can compare is structure. Three questions get you most of the way.

Is there an initiation fee on top of the membership? Many programs carry one, and it does not always appear in the number you are first quoted.

Will my visits still be billed to insurance? In most concierge programs the answer is yes, which means the membership fee is in addition to your premium, your deductible, and your copays rather than instead of them.

Does the practice make money on what it orders? Labs, supplements, imaging, IVs. Ask directly. The answer tells you whether a recommendation is a clinical judgment or a revenue line.

My answers, in order: no, no, and no. If another practice in Charlotte answers the same way and is a better fit for you, take it. Those are the right questions either way.

Dr. Daniel Tagge, MD

Written by

Daniel Tagge, MD

Board-certified family physician. North Carolina’s only physician certified in Health Optimization Medicine. NPI 1225562218.

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