David L. Albenberg, MD

"Having received his B.A. from Tufts University and his M.D. from Temple University, Dr. Albenberg continued his southerly decent to Charleston, SC to pursue a residency in Family Medicine and subsequently enter private practice. Considering himself a premature casualty of a broken system, he retreated from a high-volume, traditional practice in December, 2002. Out of both hope and desperation, he envisioned and founded Access Healthcare, LLC, South Carolina’s first free-market “Direct Care” practice in early 2003. As an inadvertent by-product of the practice’s success, Dr. Albenberg has become passionate about the future of consumer-driven primary care and now endeavors to convey the confidence of these successes to his struggling contemporaries and patients looking for better options. In this vein, in January of 2004 he founded the National Organization of Retail Medicine (NORM), which then merged with the American Society for Concierge Physicians (ASCP) to form SIMPD – the Society for Innovative Medical Practice Design where has served on the board of directors for six years. His recent speaking engagements have included the AAPP, AAPS, The Bastiat Society, Primed and MGMA."

"The name Access was derived from the expressed needs of patients towards the accessibility of their physician. We will do everything in our ability to promptly meet the healthcare needs of our patients, whether it is by telephone, e-mail, traditional office visits, after-hours care, or house calls. In keeping with our efforts to return to a more simplistic and traditional practice model, we will be limiting the size of our family of patients. By reducing our exposure we hope to increase our availability, eliminate long waits in the office and unnecessary visits to the emergency room. Most importantly, Access Heathcare works only for you, the patient; we do not contract with any outside parties that influence the outcome of your healthcare. We endeavor to keep the cost of medical care affordable and, more importantly, known to our patients upfront. As a by-product of this improvement in access, we hope to reunite the physician and patient in a more simplified setting, allowing us the opportunity to deliver a higher quality of care. To facilitate this mission, we have several affordable service levels from which to choose."