FreeState Healthcare

What FreeState Healthcare does

FreeState Healthcare is a privately-held healthcare services company headquartered in Wichita, Kansas that delivers in-person and virtual multi-specialty care to rural hospitals and underserved communities, primarily across Kansas. The company serves more than 15 partner facilities in locations including Atwood, Colby, Dodge City, Garden City, Manhattan, McPherson, Ulysses, and Winfield, addressing the chronic shortage of specialty physicians in low-density, low-resource markets. Its leadership team is led by President Dr. Elisha Yaghmai, MD, MPH&TM, FACP, with Dr. Hannah Bingham, MD serving as Chief of Staff and additional operational roles in rural operations and billing.

The company's core offering centers on a home-grown, low-cost telemedicine platform designed explicitly for rural delivery environments with limited financial and technological resources. It bundles this proprietary technology with a broad multi-specialty clinical portfolio spanning 18+ specialty areas including Allergy & Immunology, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Hospitalist services, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Pediatrics, Pediatric Hospitalist, Pediatric ICU, Psychiatry, Pulmonology, Rheumatology, Sleep Medicine, Nephrology, Infectious Disease, and Hospice and Palliative Care. Adjacent offerings include Medical Director placement and collaboration services for local advanced practice providers. The platform can be deployed as a complete solution or layered onto a partner facility's existing equipment, reducing adoption friction for resource-constrained buyers. The proprietary platform was recognized with the Wichita Business Journal Innovations Award in October 2017.

FreeState operates a consultative enterprise field-sales motion, engaging rural hospitals directly, jointly defining needs, proposing tiered pricing options, and pursuing long-term engagements typically structured as multi-year contracts. Revenue is generated through managed-services arrangements for clinical service delivery and professional-services fees for Medical Director engagements. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, with the company explicitly positioning affordability for financially pressured rural hospitals. Marketing relies primarily on earned media, including coverage in the Wichita Business Journal and The Wichita Eagle, supplemented by a direct enterprise sales motion to rural hospital leadership.

Name

FreeState Healthcare

Legal name

FreeState Healthcare

Website

https://freestatehealthcare.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

FreeState Healthcare delivers in-person and virtual multi-specialty care plus a proprietary low-cost telemedicine platform to 15+ rural hospitals across Kansas. Headquartered in Wichita, the company targets underserved communities with 18+ specialty areas and Medical Director services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Rural Healthcare Services

NAICS

Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) (621111), Outpatient Care Centers (6214)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011), Services-Specialty Outpatient Facilities, Nec (8093)

akta.pro primary industry

Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) (HLAFAGAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Primary Care for Underserved Populations (e.g., migrant, homeless, refugee clinics) (HLAFAGAN)

Keywords

• Rural healthcare services
• Telemedicine solutions
• Multi-specialty care
• Hospital partnership
• Virtual care delivery

Headquarters

HQ city

Wichita

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Services Delivery: FreeState Healthcare provides in-person and virtual multi-specialty care services to rural hospitals and communities. Services include Allergy & Immunology, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Hospitalist, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Pulmonology, and more.
2. Medical Director Services: Provides Medical Director services and collaboration for local advanced practice providers at reasonable rates.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

FreeState Healthcare provides in-person and virtual multi-specialty medical care to rural hospitals and communities, covering specialties such as Allergy & Immunology, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Hospitalist, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Pulmonology, and others. It pairs these physician-led clinical services with a proprietary low-cost telemedicine platform and Medical Director placement, allowing rural facilities to offer full-service medicine without large capital outlays.

Product overview

FreeState Healthcare operates as a healthcare services company offering a unified portfolio of in-person and virtual multi-specialty care services. The core offering consists of multi-specialty healthcare services (including 18 specialty areas from Allergy & Immunology to Sleep Medicine), supplemented by Medical Director services for hospitals seeking physician leadership, and telemedicine solutions that enable remote care delivery. The telemedicine component can leverage existing equipment or utilize their proprietary in-house solution, targeting rural hospitals in Kansas with limited financial and technological resources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Multi-Specialty Healthcare Services

Named customers16 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

16 partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Rawlins County Health CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in Atwood, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare
• Citizens Medical CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in Colby, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare
• St. Catherine Hospital Dodge CitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in Dodge City, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare
• Morton County Health ServicescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in Elkhart, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare
• Newman Regional HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in Emporia, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare
• St. Catherine Hospital Garden CitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in Garden City, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare
• Goodland Regional Medical CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in Goodland, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare
• Saint Luke HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in Marion, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare
• Ascension Via Christi Hospital ManhattancoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in Manhattan, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare
• McPherson HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in McPherson, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare
• Stafford County HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in Stafford, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare
• Hamilton County HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in Syracuse, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare
• Greeley County Health ServicescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in Tribune, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare
• Bob Wilson Memorial HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in Ulysses, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare
• Trego County-Lemke Memorial HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in Wakeeney, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare
• William Newton HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner facility in Winfield, KS receiving multi-specialty care services from FreeState Healthcare

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Equum Medical: Equum Medical provides on-demand specialty telehealth (hospitalist, critical care, cardiology, infectious disease) to community and rural health systems, overlapping with FreeState's multi-specialty rural hospital focus.
• Eagle Telemedicine: Eagle Telemedicine supplies specialty physician services (hospitalist, ICU, psychiatry, neurology, etc.) on a telemedicine basis to rural and critical access hospitals — a near-identical service model and customer profile to FreeState's multi-specialty rural offering.
• Hicuity Health (formerly Advanced ICU Care): Hicuity Health delivers tele-ICU and acute care specialty services to community and rural hospitals, overlapping with FreeState's critical-care and hospitalist coverage for resource-constrained facilities.
• Access TeleCare (formerly SOC Telemed): Access TeleCare delivers specialty telemedicine coverage — including hospitalist, psychiatry, neurology, and ICU — to community and rural hospitals, directly competing for the same buyer and use case as FreeState.
• Avera eCARE: Avera eCARE is one of the longest-running rural hospital telehealth programs, providing specialty, ICU, and emergency tele-consults to rural and critical access facilities — a foundational comparable to FreeState's model.

Others

• VSee: VSee is a telehealth platform and workflow provider that supplies the technology layer used by many rural and international virtual-care programs; it is adjacent infrastructure rather than a direct competitor to FreeState's services.

Broad incumbents

• Amwell: Amwell provides enterprise telehealth infrastructure and clinical services to health systems, including rural and community hospitals, making it a broad incumbent competing for similar provider-side contracts.
• Teladoc Health: Teladoc is the largest US virtual-care platform; it does not specialize in rural hospital multi-specialty coverage but competes for the broader telehealth dollar and increasingly for hospital-system contracts adjacent to FreeState's market.

Emerging players

• KeyCare: KeyCare operates a virtual-care platform built on Epic that enables health systems (including rural hospitals) to extend care capacity, partially overlapping with FreeState's hospital-side telehealth delivery model.
• Zipnosis (by Health Catalyst): Zipnosis, now part of Health Catalyst, offers a virtual-care platform aimed at health systems, including rural and community providers; it overlaps with FreeState on the technology-enabled rural-care theme but at a different scale and buyer segment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/telehospital

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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