Synergy Health Partners

What Synergy Health Partners does

Synergy Health Partners, LLC is a privately held, national surgical workforce management company founded in 2012 by practicing orthopedic surgeons and headquartered in Solana Beach, California. The company operates a proprietary Surgicalist Model in which board-certified, fellowship-trained surgeons rotate through partner hospitals on preset 7-10 consecutive day schedules, providing 24/7/365 coverage for emergency, acute care, trauma, elective, and general surgery cases. Its service portfolio spans orthopedic surgery, general surgery, trauma surgery, urology, gastroenterology, anesthesiology, acute care surgery, and elective practice coverage, positioning it as an integrated alternative to locum tenens for hospitals and health systems.

The company's core product is the Surgicalist staffing program, supported by full-service program management (credentialing, licensing, malpractice, scheduling, compliance, KPI dashboards) and a web platform centered on the ChooseSynergy.com hub. Revenue is generated primarily through managed services fees paid by hospital partners, structured as predictable monthly fees or per-program arrangements, with surgeons compensated on per diem or shift-based rates ($2,200-$2,500 per general surgery shift; $3,000-$3,700 per orthopedic shift). Secondary revenue mechanics include referral bonuses to clinicians. Synergy expanded into anesthesiology via its 2022 acquisition of SoCal Anesthesia Solutions and into urology and gastroenterology through organic service launches in 2025.

Synergy serves U.S. acute care hospitals, critical access hospitals, Level I and Level II trauma centers, and multi-campus health systems, with documented programs in 40+ sites across rural and urban markets. The go-to-market combines enterprise field sales targeting hospital C-suite and medical leaders with inside clinician recruitment and physician referral programs. Channel partnerships include the National Rural Health Association and an implementation role in the federal Rural Health Transformation Program. The company employs 251-500 staff and reports cumulative metrics of 600+ surgeon placements, 86,500+ surgical days staffed, and $917M in facility partner revenue generated.

Name

Synergy Health Partners

Legal name

Synergy Health Partners, LLC

Website

https://choosesynergy.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Synergy Health Partners is a national surgical workforce management company that embeds fractional, board-certified surgeons into hospitals under a proprietary Surgicalist Model, serving rural, critical access, and Level I-II trauma centers across orthopedic, general, trauma, urology, gastroenterology, and anesthesia service lines.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Surgical Staffing

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Clinical & Allied Health Staffing (BPACADAJ)

Keywords

• Surgical staffing services
• Healthcare workforce management
• Hospital physician coverage
• Surgicalist placement services
• Locum tenens alternative

Headquarters

HQ city

San Diego

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Surgical Staffing Services: Synergy provides hospitals with dedicated surgical coverage through its Surgicalist model, charging a predictable monthly fee or per diem rates for surgeon coverage. Revenue is generated through service fees paid by hospital partners for staffing, credentialing, program management, and quality tracking services. The model replaces expensive locum tenens arrangements with cost-effective, consistent coverage.
2. Physician Placement/Recruitment: Placement of surgicalists (surgeons, anesthesiologists, CRNAs, APPs) at partner hospitals, with compensation structured as per diem or shift-based payments to clinicians and monthly service fees to the hospital.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Synergy Health Partners provides fractional, hospital-embedded surgical staffing through its proprietary Surgicalist Model, deploying board-certified, fellowship-trained surgeons (orthopedic, general, trauma, acute care, urology, gastroenterology, anesthesiology) on predictable 7-10 day rotations. The company delivers 24/7/365 surgical coverage, credentialing, licensing, scheduling, and quality metric tracking to hospitals and health systems across the United States as a managed alternative to locum tenens staffing.

Product overview

Synergy Health Partners operates as a national surgical workforce management company offering the Surgicalist Model as its core fractional surgeon staffing platform. The platform provides hospital-embedded surgical coverage across multiple service lines including orthopedic surgery, general surgery, trauma surgery, urology, gastroenterology, and anesthesiology. Hospitals access surgical staffing through tiered coverage models (Community, Acute Care, and Trauma Coverage) delivered by rotating surgicalist teams working predictable schedules. Supporting modules include the Bridge Solution for interim staffing transitions and the Healthcare Grants Resource page for rural hospital funding assistance under the Rural Health Transformation Program.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Surgicalist Model
• Orthopedic Surgery Coverage
• General Surgery Coverage
• Trauma Surgery Coverage
• Acute Care Surgery
• Urology Services
• Gastroenterology Services
• Anesthesiology Services
• Elective Practice Coverage
• Bridge Solution

Quantifiable outcome

• $917M in facility partner revenue generated
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and notable.

• National Rural Health Association (NRHA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025NRHA partnership for educational webinars and knowledge sharing on rural healthcare staffing challenges. Synergy participates in NRHA events and provides content for rural health transformation initiatives.
• Rural Health Transformation (RHT) ProgramcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Synergy Health Partners serves as implementation partner for Rural Health Transformation Program, helping hospitals translate workforce development ambitions into sustainable staffing strategies and navigate grant application processes under the $50B federal program.
• LewisGale Medical CenternotableStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023LewisGale Medical Center achieved Level II Trauma Center designation with support from Synergy Health Partners' Surgicalist Model, demonstrating the company's ability to help hospitals meet rigorous trauma certification requirements.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Sound Physicians: Hospital-based specialty physician group employing hospitalists and specialists across acute care settings. Directly comparable to Synergy in that both staff embedded physicians (hospitalists, intensivists, surgeons) at partner hospitals under multi-year service contracts, addressing similar coverage and quality-of-life pain points.
• LocumTenens.com: Physician locum tenens and staffing agency serving hospitals and surgery centers nationwide. Closely aligned with Synergy's customer base (hospitals needing surgical coverage) and product (per-diem physician staffing), although Synergy differentiates via the embedded rotational model.
• VISTA Staffing Solutions: Specialized physician locum tenens and global staffing firm with strong hospital-system focus. Competes for the same surgeon and anesthesiologist pool, with comparable per-diem commercial model and hospital buyer.

Broad incumbents

• AMN Healthcare: Largest US healthcare staffing company operating locum tenens, physician permanent placement, and allied staffing divisions (including Staff Care and Merritt Hawkins). Overlaps with Synergy in physician/advanced-practice staffing and locum tenens replacement, but serves a much broader portfolio of healthcare workforce categories.
• CHG Healthcare (CompHealth, Weatherby): Major physician staffing conglomerate operating CompHealth, Weatherby Healthcare, and Global Medical Staffing. Direct competitor in locum tenens and physician placement, with comparable target buyer (hospital administrators and physicians) but a transactionally rather than rotationally embedded model.
• Jackson Healthcare: Large privately-held healthcare staffing firm with physician, allied, and nurse staffing subsidiaries (Jackson & Coker, Jackson Therapy, etc.). Overlaps with Synergy in physician placement but spans a much broader workforce portfolio.
• TeamHealth: National physician services organization staffing emergency medicine, hospital medicine, anesthesiology, and specialty surgery at hospitals. Comparable hospital-embedded staffing model, though operates at far greater scale and as an outsourced clinical service line rather than fractional rotation.
• Ingenovis Health: Holding company for healthcare staffing brands (Trustaff, Fastaff, CardioSolution, etc.), including clinician network and workforce solutions across nursing and allied specialties. Overlaps with Synergy in hospital-facing staffing, though multi-segment rather than surgicalist-focused.
• Aya Healthcare: Largest US travel nurse and allied healthcare staffing firm with growing physician and advanced practice divisions. Comparably scaled tech-enabled staffing platform, but concentrated in nursing rather than specialty physician placement.

Emerging players

• Trusted Health: Tech-enabled clinician staffing platform focused on healthcare workforce marketplaces. Targets similar hospital workforce pain points as Synergy but with a marketplace/app model rather than dedicated fractional surgical teams, and remains earlier-stage in surgicalist penetration.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SynergyHP
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@ChooseSynergy
• Facebookfacebook.com/SynergyHPStaffing
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/synergyhp
• Instagraminstagram.com/synergyhpstaffing

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles17 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments

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