Physician leaping across a chasm from corporate medicine to private practice

Making the Leap

Many physicians are tired of having their labor garnished by corporations and middlemen, but the leap to private practice requires investment and know-how that they may not have. Private practice physicians typically earn 20–40% more than their employed peers while working similar hours. Hero EMR specializes in making this possible.

Source: Medscape Physician Compensation Report, 2025; MGMA DataDive Provider Compensation

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Lowering the Activation Energy

Hero EMR lowers the barrier to starting your own practice.

  • We design and host your practice website
  • One flat $200 a month per prescribing provider, every AI feature included
  • Guidance on search engine optimization (SEO)
  • Online reputation management strategy
  • Digital advertising playbook for new practices
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The Ramp

Ramping up a new practice is the most difficult part of the transition. Fixed costs can greatly outweigh revenue before a full patient panel is established.

Hero EMR’s front-end and back-office automation lets you ramp as a solo provider by automating scheduling, inbox, phone triage, and revenue cycle management.

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Cumulative Profit

With Hero EMR
Traditional
-- Break-even (Hero)
-- Break-even (Traditional)
-- 12-Mo Advantage

Illustrative estimate. Hero figures reflect fixed overhead only and exclude success-based revenue-cycle fees and third-party pass-through costs, which are billed separately per your service agreement. Actual results vary by practice.

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Leveling the Playing Field for Small and Midsize Practices

Large health systems win on economies of scale. A billing department, a call center and an IT team cost far less per doctor when hundreds of physicians share them. A small practice needs the same capabilities, with no one to split the bill.

Automation and AI change that math. Hero gives a practice of one the same machinery a practice of five hundred runs on.

Front Office Automation

  • Practice website with online booking
  • 24/7 AI phone agent*
  • AI outbound and reminder calls*
  • Practice phones and voicemail*
  • One inbox for text, email, fax and portal
  • Fax OCR and auto-filing*
  • Insurance card scan
  • Real-time eligibility checks
  • Patient cost estimates
  • Online booking insurance checks
  • Registration invites that send themselves
  • Pre-visit questionnaires by rule
  • AI pre-visit interview
  • E-signed consents and paperwork
  • Intake review
  • Text, email and push reminders
  • Self-filling waitlist
  • Calendar Shuffle
  • Treatment series booking
  • Room, chair and equipment schedules
  • Self check-in kiosk
  • Walk-in and urgent care queue
  • Patient portal
  • My Hero patient app
  • Referral portal
  • Reputation management
  • Outreach campaigns

Back Office Automation

  • Claim scrubbing (NCCI and MUE)
  • Electronic claim submission
  • Auto-posted ERAs
  • Denial management*
  • Corrections and appeals*
  • Prior authorizations*
  • Billing Command Center
  • Insurance, cash, DPC and hybrid billing
  • Copays charged at booking
  • Card-on-file collection
  • Statements that chase themselves
  • DPC memberships
  • Stripe, Square and card readers
  • Payer enrollment tracking
  • APCM autopilot
  • Care program claims
  • Remote patient monitoring
  • Care Gaps Manager
  • Quality reporting (eCQMs)
  • ACO attribution
  • Drug inventory
  • Drug billing by NDC units
  • Public health reporting
  • Health information exchange
  • Patient app access and API
  • Audit log and disclosures
  • Record access and export
  • Departments and legal entities
  • Headway sync

Physician Tools

  • Ambient AI scribe
  • Note Writer AI
  • Dictation
  • Dot phrases and templates
  • F1 voice assistant
  • Knowledge Hero
  • Guideline Hero
  • Diagnosis Hero
  • Results Hero
  • Medication Hero
  • Explainable decision support
  • Chart Review
  • Encounter Completion
  • Form auto-fill (FMLA, work, school)
  • E-prescribing
  • EPCS with phone approval
  • PDMP checks
  • Refill Center
  • Medication reconciliation
  • Quest and Labcorp orders
  • Lab results and trends
  • Imaging orders
  • Order sets
  • Smart referrals
  • Inbox Hero
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Supervisory signing
  • Zoom telehealth
  • Physician mobile app
  • Calendar sync
  • Offline mode
  • Todo lists and Team Chat
  • Out of Office coverage
  • In-office injections

*Optional services, billed separately when you switch them on: Hero RCM (RCM contracts are negotiated based on specialty and payer mix), patient payments, fax, phones and the AI phone agent.

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Save Over $200k

For a modeled PCP practice collecting $700k annually, Hero EMR’s AI-powered platform can cut fixed overhead by roughly half. Figures are illustrative, exclude success-based revenue-cycle fees and third-party pass-through costs, and vary by practice.

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Annual Practice Overhead Per Physician

Illustrative model — PCP practice, $700k annual collections

Expense Category Employed Self-Employed With Hero EMR
Staffing
Front desk (1.5 FTE) — $64,500 $0 ← AI
Billing specialist (1 FTE) — $60,000 $0 ← AI
Medical assistant (1 FTE) — $45,000 $45,000
Staff benefits (health, payroll tax) — $35,000 $5,000
Technology
EMR & practice management — $10,000 $2,400
Billing / clearinghouse / RCM fees — $10,000 Success-based*
Surescripts / e-prescribing — $4,000 $0
Eligibility verification — $4,000 Pass-through*
Other software / IT — $2,000 $0
Fixed Overhead
Rent — $75,000 $75,000
Malpractice insurance — $9,000 $9,000
Utilities / phones / internet — $6,000 $6,000
Medical supplies / waste disposal — $6,000 $6,000
Physician Benefits & Professional
Physician benefits (health, 401k, CME) — $42,000 $42,000
Professional fees (accounting, legal) — $10,000 $10,000
Marketing & credentialing — $7,000 $0
Est. Fixed Overhead* — $389,500 $200,400
Physician Compensation $308,000 $310,500 $499,600

*Illustrative estimate for a modeled solo practice, not a quote or guarantee. Figures reflect fixed overhead only. The Hero column includes the $200 per month subscription for one prescribing provider. Hero’s revenue-cycle service, including denial management and prior authorizations, is success-based: a percentage of collections, typically 2.5%, negotiated based on specialty and payer mix per your service agreement. It is billed separately, as are fax, phone and AI phone agent add-ons and third-party pass-through costs (clearinghouse, eligibility and e-prescribing). Actual savings vary by practice; Hero does not guarantee any collection or savings outcome. Individual contracts may differ based on specific usage patterns.

$189k Annual Savings
$500k Take-Home (Hero)
+62% vs. Employed Peers