Dr. Gary Berliner's patients can visit as often as they like without an appointment for checkups, X-rays, lab tests, even minor surgery.
Medical offices such as this one have been offering flat fee care for years to patients willing to pay thousands of dollars in annual fees.
Berliner and co-founder Dr. Dan Francis hope their clinic, slated to expand to a half-dozen locations throughout north Georgia, will start a trend in rural America.
They say offering affordable health care to the masses helps cut hospitalization rates and provide the neediest with a partial solution to their insurance woes.
This trend began in the Seattle area, where the MD2 clinic charges more than $10,000 a year for home-delivered prescriptions, immaculate offices and personalized robes and slippers.
Since its inception in 1996, different forms of the walk-in clinic have sprung up across the country.
