Personal Health MD

About Personal Health MD

What is Personal Health MD?

Personal Health MD is a concierge family primary care practice at 745 Boylston Street in Boston, open since 2011 and affiliated with Mass General Brigham. It is first and foremost a membership based primary care practice that treats patients of all ages, with hormone therapy and weight loss folded in as part of a broader health program rather than a stand-alone drug clinic. Richard Donahue, MD, MPH and Lisa McGonigal, MD, MPH are listed as prescribers.

Within that primary care model, the practice offers hormonal balancing for estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, treatment for low testosterone, menopausal support that it describes as including herbal options alongside hormone therapy, and a weight loss track built around InBody body composition testing, nutrition planning and what it calls "the latest weight loss medications" without naming a specific drug. Its own clinical writing names micronized progesterone (Prometrium) as one option used alongside estrogen therapy for appropriate patients. Care runs on an annual in-person physical with labs and imaging in Boston, followed by telemedicine visits through the year, and the practice says it keeps a smaller patient roster than other Boston concierge practices.

What does it cost?

No membership fee, consultation charge, or price for weight loss or hormone treatment is published. It does not say whether weight loss medication or hormone prescriptions are billed separately from the membership itself. It states that staff work to secure insurance referrals and prior authorizations to prevent denials and to avoid direct billing to patients, but it does not say which services, if any, insurance is expected to cover versus what is paid directly as part of membership. Anyone considering this practice should ask for the membership fee itself, and separately for the cost of medications, labs, and imaging.

What should you ask before you book?

Ask what the annual membership fee covers and what falls outside it, including weight loss medication, hormone prescriptions, and the labs or imaging used to monitor them. Ask whether a specific weight loss medication would be brand-name or compounded, and what it costs beyond the membership. Ask which of the two listed physicians would be managing a hormone or weight loss plan, and how often in-person visits versus telemedicine follow-ups are expected. Ask directly how insurance is used here, since the practice describes handling referrals and prior authorizations but does not spell out whether the membership itself is billed to insurance or paid entirely out of pocket.

Who is it a good fit for?

This is a good fit for someone who wants ongoing primary care for themselves or their family, with hormone therapy, menopausal support, or weight loss managed as part of that relationship rather than as a separate prescription service. It is less suited to someone looking only for a weight loss or testosterone program at a published price, since neither the membership fee nor any drug cost is listed, and both would need to be worked out in a conversation with the practice.

Sources: personalhealthmd.com, personalhealthmd.com/concierge-medical-services, personalhealthmd.com/news/how-long-does-perimenopause-last, personalhealthmd.com/about-us

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