About Freedom Medical Solutions Services
Freedom Medical Solutions is a business offering a "Third Path" solution for independent physician practices and medical groups facing economic pressures.
The core idea is to provide enterprise-level economic advantages (collective scale and cost savings) while preserving full physician/practice ownership, clinical autonomy, and independence - avoiding the common alternatives of either selling to private equity (PE) firms or joining large hospital/health systems.
Key Problems fms Addresses
Independent practices face structural disadvantages:
- 25-40% higher costs in areas like malpractice insurance, employee benefits, and administrative overhead compared to large systems.
- Fully insured benefits and fragmented purchasing power lead to margin erosion.
- The "dilemma" forces many to sell ownership or affiliate, sacrificing independence.
The "Third Path" Model
Freedom Medical Solutions builds shared infrastructure through a collective/aggregated structure without buying practices or interfering in clinical operations. Key components include:
- Single-employer structure - A unified employment platform for administrative/HR/payroll staff across participating practices (not a traditional PEO). This unlocks large-group economics (e.g., for practices with <50 employees) for benefits, payroll, and HR.
- Captive insurance - Especially for medical malpractice (and potentially other lines). Practices collectively own the captive entity, so premiums build institutional wealth/reserves/equity rather than flowing to external carriers as profit. This turns insurance from an expense into an asset.
- Collective purchasing & negotiation - Aggregate leverage as one entity for employee benefits, property & casualty, HRIS, payroll, medical malpractice, and more - keeping savings within the group instead of to middlemen/vendors.
Claimed Benefits & Results
- Significant cost reductions - e.g., 85% prescription cost savings, 25%+ benefits cost reduction.
- Example impact - $1.4 million in annual savings/value returned to physicians for one facility in one year, with zero equity surrendered.
- Practices gain the economic power of a large (e.g., 5,000-employee) system while remaining fully independent owners and decision-makers.
PARTICIPATION & PHILOSOPHY
- No equity transfer, no practice sales, no clinical interference or operational control loss.
- Administrative functions transition to their platform; clinical operations stay untouched.
- Savings flow directly to the practice's bottom line.
- Positioning: "We do not buy practices. We make them unbuyable."