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In-house, white-label, or us?
Three ways a practice can offer a prescription program. Here is the honest comparison, including where each one genuinely wins.
What are the options for a practice to offer a prescription program?
There are three. Build it in-house by hiring a prescriber and carrying the compliance load. License a white-label platform and remain the operator yourself. Or partner with Clinic Healthcare, where you are the seller of record and set your own price while an independent clinician prescribes and we run the operation. Only the third has no setup cost, no fixed monthly cost and no clinical risk for the practice.
Build it in-house
Best for: Large groups with an existing clinical arm and a compliance budget.
You hire a medical director, a prescriber, software and compliance counsel, you carry the regulatory exposure, and you keep 100% of the revenue on paper. In practice the overhead and your own time come out of that number first.
Use a white-label platform
Best for: Operators who want the software and are happy to run the operation themselves.
You license a platform and you are still the operator: your staff, your subscriptions, your regulatory role. The platform fee comes off the top whether or not anyone buys this month.
Partner with Clinic Healthcare
Best for: Allied practices that want to keep the patient without stepping outside their scope.
You are the seller of record and set your own retail price. We run the clinical operation, the pharmacy, support and billing, and charge $50 per treatment per month. Nothing to hire, nothing to license, no clinical risk.
Side by side
| In-house | White-label | Clinic Healthcare | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who prescribes | A clinician you hire | A clinician you hire or contract | An independent clinician at Beluga Health |
| Who employs the clinician | You | You, in most models | Nobody at your practice |
| Who carries clinical risk | You | You | The prescribing group |
| Setup cost | High | Medium | None |
| Monthly fixed cost | Salaries, software, counsel | Platform subscription | None |
| Cost when nobody buys | You still pay it | You still pay it | Zero |
| Who sets the retail price | You | Usually you | You |
| Who owns the patient relationship | You | You | You |
| Whose brand is on it | Yours | Yours | Yours |
| Time to launch | Months | Weeks | Days |
| Your team's clinical duties | Full | Partial | None |
Is it cheaper to run it in-house?
Rarely, once the full cost is counted. Keeping 100% of the revenue looks better than a margin until you subtract clinician cost, medication, software, support staff, compliance counsel and the value of your own time. In-house also means you carry the regulatory exposure yourself.
It does make sense for larger groups that already have a clinical arm and a compliance budget. If that is you, and the program is genuinely profitable, keep it. We will say so on the call.
What does Clinic Healthcare charge?
$50 per treatment, per month. Identical for every partner in every program, and it does not change with your volume. Medication and fulfilment are billed at cost. No setup fee, no software licence, no minimum, and nothing to pay in a month where nobody buys.
Who is the seller of record?
You are. You buy the program at your quoted cost, set your own retail price and keep the margin. No money changes hands for sending business in either direction, which is exactly what keeps the structure clean.
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