Personalized & Proactive Health for Vital Lives

Performance Medicine is at its core a different approach to health and healing. Sure, you want to avoid illness and prevent chronic disease—who doesn’t? But this is not a potent motivator to help you execute the habits, routines, and lifestyle that improves your health and vitality.

Instead, you need to focus on the immediate need to perform at a high and sustainable capacity for your job, your family, your life. Performance Medicine focuses your energy and effort on strategies, practices, and techniques that will put you on a higher playing field—and yes, also improve your health and wellbeing at the same time. Performance Medicine involves a mix of medical disciplines combined with the most recent developments in behavioral psychology, lifestyle, longevity, nutrition, physical fitness and training, mindset, and recovery.

The powerful combination is then applied to the individual with unique circumstances, physiology, and psychology to enhance your ability to show up for what matters most to you.

Traditional primary care is reactive—it treats symptoms and manages (rather than prevents or curing) chronic disease. This is not the fault of primary care, but rather the time constraints imposed on physicians and financial incentives of health care delivery. Unfortunately, patients often end up overmedicated, misunderstood, and disempowered. Performance Medicine is all about providing not patients—but whole and unique people or “clients”—with the tools, techniques, and team to truly own and guide their health journey. While this demands an investment of energy and responsibility from the client, the return of enhanced self-efficacy is life changing.

Concierge medicine provides faster and easier access to your physician. This, in turn, facilitates more personalized care and attention from your doctor, who generally is caring for a smaller number of patients. The fundamental philosophy and practice of most concierge medicine, however, is still largely reactive in nature. The focus is on medicine to treat disease, which is only part of your holistic wellbeing. Performance Medicine provides many of the benefits of concierge level care but empowers you as the primary architect of your health journey. It does this by being much more proactive in delivering the long term strategy, specific objectives, regular practices and tactics, experiential learning opportunities, and the rigorous accountability needed to make and maintain health and high performance a top priority in your life.

Performance Medicine is for anyone who wants to play an active role in designing their lifestyle, improving their health, and elevating their day-to-day performance. Creating a healthy, vital life is an ongoing project that requires careful nurturing and regular investments of time, energy, and resources. If you are willing to put in the effort, we are excited to provide the expertise, structure, and support to help you achieve unparalleled rewards.

Performance medicine is all about protecting and optimizing your health and well being. VIM Medicine does not provide:

• Same day, in-office evaluation sick visits

• Vaccinations

• In-office diagnostics (X rays, strep tests, urine collection, etc)

• In-office procedures (wart removal, skin biopsy, stitches, etc)

• Burn and wound care

• Obstetric and gynecological care

We maintain close partnerships with urgent care centers and medical specialists and will refer you to the appropriate providers and coordinate your care should the need arise.

All VIM clients must complete the initial assessment. This is critical to establish your baseline and provide the data that informs the development of your unique health objectives, strategies, and tactics going forward. In addition, Performance Medicine is predicated on a long-term commitment. Creating new behaviors and healthy habits, after all, is a process. And progress demands persistence and patience. By putting some sweat equity and financial “skin in the game” up front, you up the stakes and psychologically commit to the long-game. This will help you to maintain motivation and build self-discipline, essential ingredients for your success.

Performance Medicine is currently structured on a direct primary care model, which eliminates third party insurance and helps to restore the therapeutic relationship between physician and patient. Access to the VIM Medicine practice involves a membership fee. However, we help you bill and use your insurance for any of the advanced testing and diagnostics that we recommend, medications we prescribe, and medical specialists to whom we refer.

Yes. We strongly recommend that you maintain insurance. Medical insurance is designed for unpredictable, expensive events that affects your health, such as surgery, emergency care, and hospitalization. Insurance provides important financial protection should any of these unforeseen scenarios arise.

Certainly. We have opted-out Medicare, which means neither our practice nor the member can submit a claim to Medicare for reimbursement for primary care. Due to national regulations those who are enrolled in Medicare are required to sign a yearly contract with VIM Medicine stating they will not bill Medicare for any Performance Medicine services. Of course, a Medicare recipient would still be free to use their Medicare insurance to pay for services from other doctors, such as specialists.