Tell us what you need and your budget. Licensed, board-certified providers with open appointment slots bid against each other in real time. You pick the best offer — credentials, price, and timing. Pay cash. Done.
Unlike every other healthcare marketplace — providers compete for your business, not the other way around. Empty appointment slots mean aggressive bids.
Tell us what procedure you need, your max budget, your availability, and location. Takes 60 seconds. No account required to start.
Licensed, board-certified providers with open slots see your request and submit their best price along with their credentials, certifications, and years of experience — competing to earn your business.
Review competing bids side-by-side — board certifications, years of experience, specialty credentials, price, slot time, and distance. Pick the best fit. Pay cash directly. No surprise bills.
These are actual patient requests receiving bids from competing providers at this moment.
Every other platform shows you a list of doctors with prices they set themselves. MedBid is the only platform where those prices actually move — because providers compete to win you.
Sesame lists 10,000+ providers at static prices they set themselves. MDSave pre-negotiates fixed rates. Zocdoc just books appointments. None of them have reverse-bid mechanics. The moment a patient posts a need and providers respond with competing offers, you've created a two-sided marketplace with network effects — the more providers bid, the better the prices; the better the prices, the more patients post. That compounding flywheel is MedBid's structural advantage.
Core DifferentiatorEvery bid surfaces board certifications, years of experience, and specialty credentials front and center. When patients choose between two bids at a similar price, they consistently select the more credentialed provider — creating a quality floor the market enforces itself, with no race to the bottom.
Built-In QualityGeneral Medicine and Sesame are built around primary care and prescriptions. MedBid targets the high-acuity corridor — neurology, TBI, pain management, interventional procedures, and complex specialist care — where specialist-level bidding creates the most savings and the highest value.
Strategic WedgeEvery bid, accepted price, specialty, and zip code builds proprietary market-clearing price intelligence. Over time, MedBid knows the real price for a lumbar epidural in San Jose or a qEEG in Las Vegas — data no competitor, insurer, or hospital system has. That data becomes a product in itself.
Defensible MoatThe difference between price transparency and price discovery is the difference between a catalog and an auction. MedBid is the auction.
The pricing intelligence MedBid accumulates with every bid is proprietary, compounding, and impossible for competitors to replicate from a standing start.
MedBid learns the real market-clearing price for every procedure in every zip code — data no insurance company, hospital, or competitor possesses. A lumbar epidural in San Jose vs. Las Vegas clears at different prices. MedBid knows both.
What does a quadruple board-certified neurologist actually charge when competing for a TBI case? What does a board-certified pain specialist bid for an ESI in Austin? MedBid accumulates this in real time. No one else does.
The AI learns what bid profiles win — credential combinations, price anchors, availability signals, specialty-to-patient match rates. Every match makes the next match faster and better. This is a flywheel competitors cannot bootstrap.
This data becomes a standalone product for self-insured employers, third-party administrators, personal injury lien holders, and eventually insurers seeking fair market rate benchmarks — creating a B2B revenue stream independent of the consumer marketplace.
While every competitor chases consumers, MedBid's reverse-bid model is uniquely positioned to serve the buyers who spend the most on healthcare.
Key metrics for organizations evaluating MedBid as a cost-containment and procurement solution.
Providers know that an unfilled 2PM appointment tomorrow earns nothing. MedBid turns that dead inventory into cash by connecting them with motivated patients willing to pay right now.
Free to post. Bids arrive fast. No commitment until you accept.
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Providers in your area are already seeing your request. You'll receive your first bids via SMS and email within a few hours.
Sit back — let them compete for you.
From surgery to massages, weight loss to lab work — if you can pay cash for it, you can post it on MedBid.
A 2PM cancellation is worth $0. On MedBid, it's worth whatever you bid. See patient requests in real time and bid to fill your open appointments with cash-paying patients who chose you based on your credentials.
Browse requests that match your specialty, location, and availability. Bid only when it makes sense for your schedule.
Board certifications and years of experience are featured on every bid. Patients actively choose more credentialed providers — your qualifications work for you.
Bid what makes sense for your practice. No race to the bottom — you decide when and how low to go. Cash paid, no insurance paperwork.
Hospitals, surgery centers, clinics, pharmacies, med spas, massage therapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and more.
Apply in 10 minutes. Start seeing patient requests and placing bids within 48 hours of approval.
"I posted my MRI request with a $400 budget. Within 6 hours I had 3 bids — each with the doctor's certifications listed. Ended up paying $290 for a Saturday morning with a board-certified radiologist. The whole thing took less time than calling one doctor's office."
"I set my max at $600 for a knee injection. Got 4 bids — each showing board certifications and years of experience. The lowest was $390 from a double board-certified specialist 2 miles away with a same-week slot. Zero phone calls. Zero insurance forms. Incredible."
"Posted for Botox + filler with a $400 max. Had 6 bids by morning — I could compare credentials side-by-side. Went with a board-certified plastic surgeon for $285. MedBid is genius — I'd have paid $900 anywhere else and wouldn't have known the injector's qualifications."
MedBid is not another healthcare directory. It is the first two-sided reverse-bid marketplace in healthcare — with network effects, proprietary data, and B2B expansion built into the core model.
Every other marketplace — Sesame, MDSave, Zocdoc — offers price transparency. None offer price competition. MedBid is the only platform where providers bid against each other for patient business, creating true price discovery in a market that has never had it.
More providers bidding → better prices → more patients posting → more bid data → smarter AI matching → faster provider conversions. Each completed transaction adds to a proprietary pricing intelligence dataset that competitors cannot replicate from a standing start.
Self-insured employers, union health plans, personal injury lien holders, and TPAs represent a massive B2B channel that no consumer-focused competitor is positioned to serve. MedBid's reverse-bid model is the natural fit for institutional healthcare procurement.
Board certifications, years of experience, and NPI verification on every bid create a market-enforced quality standard. This differentiates MedBid from race-to-the-bottom commodity marketplaces and enables premium positioning in high-acuity specialty care.
MedBid's bid data — real market-clearing prices by specialty, geography, and credential level — is a sellable product to insurers, payers, and regulators seeking fair market rate benchmarks. This creates a second revenue stream independent of transaction fees.
Founded by a quadruple board-certified physician (Neurology, Brain Injury Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pain Management) with deep operational experience across multi-site practices, surgery centers, and the personal injury lien ecosystem — the exact markets MedBid serves.
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