Is it worth it for convenience, and is it fair to the medical community at large to rise service fees? Image Credit: Zocdoc Review: Zocdoc App This review will cover the potential recent shifts with respect to Zocdoc fees, if the app is worth it to use, if there is a fair moral playing ground involved (perhaps this is a personal opinion), and some main positives and negatives to consider prior to and during use. But is it still too expensive for some to afford, especially if they’re just starting out in the field? As someone with a background in the medical field, there’s a personal awareness of the fact that especially for younger medical providers (and those who accept all forms of insurance, and pay large liability insurance costs to boot), they often make much less than we tend to assume, not to mention the accrued debt.Ĭurrently, amidst a large amount of social media pushback on behalf of the medical community, the medical booking app has put its fee structure (which would have increased pricing structures by 7-fold, making it impossible for some providers to continue participating), on hold.

Suffice to say after recently reading an article about outrage on behalf of participating physicians and providers due to potential increasing fees and costs for participating and using the service to get new patients and business, I felt a wave of disappointment. Seemed like the perfect system, and the app would even let me know if I was due for an annual eye or dental exam, eliminating the need for a paper calendar (though haven’t those become obsolete in our digital era now anyways)? I had been using Zocdoc for myself and family quite frequently due to the convenience factor, ease of scheduling, ability to seamlessly schedule and receive appointment reminders, and input insurance information easily.īest of all, there are usually options to save on time and paper waste by inputing all of the new patient information you’d traditionally fill out in person prior to your appointment electronically using the app itself. While we typically do not think about apps and services like GrubHub, Seamless, or Zocdoc from merchant perspectives (after all, the majority of us are on the consumer end and users of these services due to the convenience factors), we often fail to realize how much these fees add up for annually for participants, meaning restaurant owners and physicians.

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