How Primary Care Clinics Earn Telehealth Referral Revenue

Primary care clinics earn telehealth referral revenue by sending interested patients to a licensed online platform and collecting a fixed marketing fee, set in advance, for as long as each referred person stays active. There is no clinical work on the referral, no inventory to hold, and it is free to join. You share a QR code or a personal link, independent licensed providers and pharmacies handle the medical side, and the fee lands in your clinic's bank account every month.

Here is exactly how that works for a primary care practice.

Where telehealth referrals fit a primary care clinic

Your clinic already fields questions your schedule cannot always absorb. Patients ask about GLP-1 weight management with semaglutide or tirzepatide, about convenient online refills between visits, or about treatments like sildenafil or tadalafil that they would rather handle online. Some of these requests fall outside what you offer in-house, and building a new service line means staffing, licensing, and inventory you may not want.

A referral turns that overflow into revenue instead of a dead end. When a patient asks about an option you do not provide, you point them to a licensed telehealth platform through the Primary Care Clinics program. They scan your QR code or use your personal link, sign up, and complete an online intake. From that moment they are attributed to your clinic, and you earn a fixed marketing fee for as long as they stay active.

This sits beside your practice, not inside it. You are not extending your scope, adding a medication to your formulary, or taking on new clinical liability for the referral. You are making a licensed option visible, the same way any marketing arrangement works.

What your clinic does, and what it never touches

The work is intentionally light, and it stays separate from patient care in your exam rooms. Here is what stays off your plate on every referral:

• No clinical work. You do not evaluate candidacy for the platform or manage that treatment.
• No inventory. Nothing to stock, store, or reorder.
• No prescribing. Independent licensed providers do the prescribing.
• No fulfillment. Licensed pharmacies handle fulfillment, refills, and shipping.

Your clinic never touches medication at any point in the referral. MedStands is not a medical practice and does not prescribe. Your role begins and ends with the introduction, which keeps the arrangement firmly on the marketing side and away from your clinical obligations.

Who handles the clinical side

Independent licensed providers handle the clinical side, not your clinic and not MedStands. Every request a referred patient submits is reviewed by a licensed provider, and not everyone qualifies. If a patient is approved, licensed pharmacies handle fulfillment, refills, and shipping directly to them.

The platform is LegitScript-certified, which means the prescribing and dispensing are managed by vetted, licensed professionals working within their own scope. You never see a prescription, decide who is treated, or influence an approval. That separation is the point: the people with the license and the pharmacy relationship do that work, and your clinic simply made the introduction. For a fuller breakdown, see who handles the prescribing and shipping in a referral program.

How the marketing fee works

Your clinic earns a fixed marketing fee for each active referred patient, paid to your bank every month for as long as that person keeps using the platform. It is set in advance and does not move with the price of any medication. 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 the fee recurs monthly while a referred patient stays active, a handful of referrals can grow into a steady, predictable line of revenue rather than a one-time payout. You are paid for introducing people to a service, and attribution is tracked for the life of each account, so there is nothing to reconcile by hand. Earnings depend on how many patients sign up and stay active, so we keep the numbers qualitative rather than promising totals.

Partner or affiliate: which setup fits

Most clinics join as a business partner, placing a QR code at the front desk or on an aftercare handout. Individual providers, office managers, or consultants who want to refer under their own name can join through the MedStands affiliate program instead. Both earn a fixed monthly marketing fee, and both keep every clinical responsibility with licensed providers and pharmacies. To compare them, partner versus affiliate and which program fits breaks down the difference.

Common questions

Does our clinic pay anything to join?

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 not committing to a franchise. It is a marketing and referral arrangement, not a new medical service line.

Do we need to add staff or do clinical work?

No. There is no clinical work, no inventory, no prescribing, and no fulfillment on your end, and it does not turn your front desk into a call center. Independent licensed providers do the prescribing and licensed pharmacies do the fulfillment, refills, and shipping. You share a code or link, and that is the extent of your involvement.

Does referring patients require a medical license?

Making the referral itself does not require a medical license, because you are not providing the care being referred. Your clinicians keep practicing exactly as they do now, and the referral adds no clinical duties for anyone on your team.

Is the fee a commission on what patients spend?

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, regardless of what any medication costs.

Get started

If your primary care clinic regularly hears questions about weight management or online care you do not provide in-house, you already have what you need to begin. Adding a referral link costs nothing and creates no new clinical work, inventory, or liability. Learn how the Primary Care Clinics program works, compare options across partner programs by industry, and start turning patient questions you cannot always answer into recurring telehealth referral revenue. Share a code, and let the licensed professionals handle the rest.