Trust and compliance
The model is built to meet the rules, not work around them. Here is who does what, and why the exposures that make telehealth risky, clinical negligence, drug product liability and a health-data breach, sit with the parties licensed to carry them rather than with a partner.
Clinicians
Beluga Health, an independent Florida physician group. Licensed clinicians, serving states where coverage is live.
Pharmacies
State-licensed 503A pharmacies dispense and ship. One pharmacy network, one price.
Commercial model
Seller of record. One published wholesale price, identical for every partner in every program. No payment for sending business.
Legal entity
Lifted Health LLC, trading as Local Healthcare. Marina del Rey, California.
Seller of record, in full
The partner sells the program to their client; Local Healthcare provides the platform and collects payment as the partner's billing agent; the clinician is independent.
The partner marks up its own product over one published wholesale price that is identical for every partner and never adjusted for how well a partner sells. No money is paid for sending business in either direction; the partner simply marks up its own product. That is what keeps the structure clean.
Care is delivered by independent, licensed clinicians at Beluga Health. Local Healthcare is the platform and billing agent, operated by Lifted Health LLC. It does not employ the clinicians or practise medicine, and the word "local" describes where a program is sold, never where care comes from.
The clinical team
Real clinicians, not a chatbot
Every consultation on a partner storefront is a live visit with a US-licensed clinician from Beluga Health, the independent, physician-led medical group that delivers care across all four Local Healthcare programs, led by Dr. Jonah Mink, MD.
50
states covered by the Beluga physician group
100%
of prescribing decisions made by licensed clinicians
0
clinical tasks for your staff
Dr. Jonah Mink, MD
CEO & Co-Founder, Beluga Health
Dr. Jonah Mink is a board-certified Family Medicine physician, licensed in all 50 states and DC, and CEO of Beluga Health, the physician-led medical group that delivers care on Local Healthcare storefronts. He brings 12 years of clinical strategy and operations experience, including 7 years in telemedicine.
Clinical care is provided by Beluga Health, a Florida professional corporation (c/o Jonah Mink, MD), an independent physician-led group of US-licensed clinicians serving all 50 states. Local Healthcare is a technology and billing platform, it does not employ the clinicians or practice medicine. Dr. Jonah Mink leads the group; client visits may be with any licensed clinician in it. Provider group: Beluga Health, 1321 Upland Dr., Suite 18399, Houston, TX 77043, belugahealth.com, info@belugahealth.com
Built compliance-first, so each risk sits with the party licensed to carry it
Corporate practice of medicine
Care sits with an independent, physician-owned group, and Local Healthcare operates as the management and billing platform. You never practice medicine.
Kickback and fee-splitting
You are the seller of record. You buy each program at a published wholesale price and set your own retail price, keeping the margin. No money changes hands for sending business, which is exactly what keeps it clean.
HIPAA
The clinical side holds all client health information, you never do. Your reporting is aggregate and de-identified, and your staff never access medical records.
Staff boundaries
Scripted introductions only. No diagnosing, no medication recommendations and no medical advice from your team.
Advertising review
Storefront claims, formulary language and disclaimers are controlled by us and locked. Your editable copy is the brand-facing content, not the clinical content.
One price for everyone
The wholesale price sheet is published and identical for every partner in every program. Nothing about your volume changes what you pay.
The marketing rules that apply to a program like this are set out in full on the compliance guide.