We built MedMerge because the alternative was watching practices overpay forever.

MedMerge was built on a simple conviction: independent medicine delivers better care at a lower cost.

The lower cost is not accidental. It is structural.

CMS itself pays differently depending on where care is delivered. Perform a treatment in a physician procedure room and the physician receives an enhanced professional payment with no separate facility fee. Move that procedure to an ambulatory surgery center and the facility reimbursement is still lower than the hospital outpatient department. Move it into the hospital and the price rises again.

Same physician. Same procedure. Different building. Different price.

Independent medicine has the better cost structure. Large health systems have the advantages of scale. That is the problem MedMerge was built to solve.

Large health systems spread risk across thousands of employees, negotiate purchasing agreements that individual practices cannot access, and self-fund their benefits. The result is lower costs on everything from healthcare to workers' compensation.

A small practice pays more for the same coverage. Not because the practice is inefficient, but because it is small. The carrier prices for the small group. The pharmacy benefit manager charges retail. The broker calls it the market. It is not the market. It is the structure.

For decades, physicians have been told that the only way to obtain scale is to surrender independence.

Sell the practice. Join the hospital. Take private equity. Become an employee.

We reject that premise.

Physicians need the advantages of scale. They do not need to give up ownership to get them.

MedMerge gives independent physician practices the financial infrastructure of a health system without requiring them to become one.

Keep the practice. Keep the autonomy. Keep the equity. Aggregate everything else.

Every practice that joins strengthens the economics of the practices already inside the network. More lives create purchasing power. More physicians create contracting power. More network density means more care stays inside the network and costs less.

The network becomes stronger without requiring the individual physician to become less independent.