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Qliance Medical Group was a direct primary care healthcare business based in Seattle, Washington, USA. It was launched in 2007. [1]

Qliance announced its closing on May 15, 2017. [2] Qliance co-founder and CEO Erika Bliss told GeekWire that the company's shutdown was caused by a lender making an "unauthorized withdrawal" of about $200,000 from the company's bank account. [3]

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References

  1. New visions for fixing health care, CNN Money, June 18, 2009
  2. Carlson, Karla. "Qliance closes after 10-year effort at new approach to basic medical care". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  3. "Qliance healthcare startup cites lender fraud for sudden shutdown as patients are left in the lurch". GeekWire. 2017-05-19. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  4. John Tozzi (June 30, 2011), Qliance: Concierge Health Care for the Middle Class, Business Week, archived from the original on July 9, 2011
  5. David Von Drehle (December 22, 2014), Medicine Is About to Get Personal