# Reimagining Primary Care

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Podcast: [The Valley Today](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-valley-today-1144037)
Published: 2026-07-01T15:00:00+00:00
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"This is the healthcare we used to have," some of Dr. Emily Chan's older patients have told her. Her reply: "Yep — and that's the way that it should be." On this Valley Business Today edition of The Valley Today, host Janet Michael sits down at the Front Royal-Warren County Chamber with Chamber President Niki Foster and Dr. Emily Chan, a board-certified family medicine physician who has opened an independent, membership-based primary care practice in Woodstock — the first in the Valley to partner with MDVIP, a national network of about 1,400 physicians using this model. Dr. Chan walks through what membership medicine actually means: an annual $2,500 fee (payable in full, halves, or quarterly), a smaller patient panel that lets her spend real time with each person, insurance still accepted for routine visits, and once a year an executive-style physical — the first offered in the Valley — that tests eyes, hearing, lungs, heart, skin, body composition, visceral fat, and includes advanced inflammatory and cardiac blood work not usually covered by insurance. Plus after-hours access to her directly, same- or next-day appointments, and — a genuinely useful perk for snowbirds and travelers — the ability to be seen by any MDVIP-affiliated physician across the country at no additional cost. The conversation also gets into the harder parts: why she loves taking patients OFF medication, why she often becomes the only physician in a complex patient's care team who sees the whole picture, and why "too good to be true" is the misconception she hears most often. Niki closes out with Chamber events — Business After Hours at Play Favorites on July 21, no Coffee & Conversation in July (a first in 23 months), and yes — apparently it's already time to talk about the Christmas Parade. ABOUT…

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