Yes. Orthodontists can earn recurring telehealth referral income by pointing interested patients toward a licensed telehealth platform and collecting a fixed monthly marketing fee, with no clinical work, no prescribing, and no inventory. Your practice is not adding a medical service. You are sharing a QR code or a personal link, and licensed providers and pharmacies handle everything on the clinical side.

That difference is the whole point, so here is exactly how it works for an orthodontic practice.

Where telehealth referrals fit an orthodontic practice

Orthodontic patients sit in your chairs for months, sometimes years. Over that stretch you build genuine trust, and appearance and confidence come up constantly, because feeling good about how they look is a large part of why people straighten their teeth in the first place. Weight management and skin health are natural adjacent interests for those same patients, and demand for GLP-1 care has grown sharply.

Instead of turning that interest into a service you have to staff, license, and stock, you can point patients toward a licensed telehealth platform through the Orthodontists program. You are not diagnosing anyone, recommending a specific treatment, or deciding who qualifies. You are simply making an option visible to a patient who asks, and letting the licensed clinicians take it from there. If you are still weighing whether a referral or a formal affiliate arrangement suits you better, partner vs affiliate: which program fits breaks down the difference.

What your practice does and never touches

The work is intentionally light. You share a QR code or link, and that is the extent of your involvement in any patient's care. Everything that requires a license stays off your plate.

  • No clinical work. You do not evaluate candidacy or manage treatment.
  • No inventory. There is nothing to stock, store, or reorder.
  • No prescribing. Licensed providers do the prescribing.
  • No fulfillment. Licensed pharmacies handle fulfillment, refills, and shipping.

Your practice never touches medication at any point, holds no inventory, and handles no fulfillment. Your role begins and ends with the referral, which is what keeps this manageable for a busy front desk.

Who handles the clinical side

This is the part that keeps your scope of practice unchanged. MedStands is not a medical practice and does not prescribe. Independent licensed providers do the prescribing, and licensed pharmacies handle fulfillment, refills, and shipping. The platform is LegitScript-certified, which means the clinical and dispensing work is done by vetted, licensed professionals rather than by your office.

Every request is reviewed by a licensed provider, and not everyone qualifies. You do not evaluate candidacy and cannot influence who is approved. When a provider does approve someone for a weight-management option such as semaglutide or tirzepatide, the pharmacy ships it directly to the patient. You never see a prescription or a shipment. For a fuller picture of the division of labor, read who handles the prescribing and shipping in a referral program.

How the recurring marketing fee works

Here is where the income comes in. You get a unique QR code and a personal link. Place the code at your front desk, on a treatment-completion handout, or wherever patients already look. When a patient scans it, creates an account, and stays active on the platform, you earn a fixed marketing fee every month for as long as that person keeps using the service.

The fee is set in advance and does not move with the price of anything. To be clear, it is not a commission, not a percentage, and not a cut of sales. It is a flat marketing fee agreed to up front. Because attribution is tracked for the life of each account, a handful of referrals can build into a steady, predictable line of recurring income rather than a one-time payout. That is the difference between a marketing fee that recurs and a bonus you collect once. If you want to understand what shapes the total, see how much you can earn referring people to telehealth.

What it costs and whether you need a license

Nothing, and no. It is free to join, with no setup fee, no monthly fee, and nothing to buy. You are not purchasing inventory or software, and you are not committing to a franchise. Referring patients to telehealth does not require a medical license, and it does not turn your front desk into a call center, because you are not providing care. There is no added clinical liability tied to the referral itself and no treatment paperwork for your team to process. Practically, the lift is a QR code at the front desk and a short, honest mention when a patient asks where they might look into weight management.

Common questions

Does my practice pay anything to join?

No. The program is free to join, with no setup fee, no monthly fee, and nothing to buy. You share a QR code or link, and you earn a fixed marketing fee for patients who sign up through it and stay active.

Do we have to do any clinical work?

No. There is no clinical work, no inventory, no prescribing, and no fulfillment on your end. Independent licensed providers do the prescribing and licensed pharmacies handle fulfillment, refills, and shipping. You make the introduction, and the platform handles the rest.

Is the fee a commission?

No. It is a fixed marketing fee set in advance, not a commission, a percentage, or a share of sales. You earn the same flat monthly amount per active referred patient, paid to your bank for as long as that person keeps using the platform.

Who decides who gets treated?

Licensed providers do. Every request is reviewed by a licensed provider, and not everyone qualifies. Your referral simply gives a patient the option to apply, and the clinical decision is never yours to make.

Getting started

If you run an orthodontic practice and want a low-effort way to help patients find a licensed weight-management or skin-health option while earning recurring, fixed marketing fees, the Orthodontists program is built for exactly this. It is free to join, adds no clinical work, and keeps every prescribing and shipping responsibility with licensed providers and pharmacies. You can also browse partner programs by industry to see how similar practices are set up, or follow the model step by step in how a QR code turns into a monthly payout. Share a code, and let the licensed professionals handle the rest.