Tampa Bay Pulmonary Medicine

What Tampa Bay Pulmonary Medicine does

Tampa Bay Pulmonary Medicine, PA is a privately held medical practice organized as a Professional Association under Florida law, headquartered at 402 Noland Drive in Brandon, FL. The practice delivers consultative and managing pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine services to adult and pediatric patients across four locations in the Tampa Bay area, with three American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM)-accredited Sleep Disorders Centers operating in Brandon, Plant City, and New Tampa.

The clinical offering spans a broad pulmonary and sleep service menu. Pulmonary services cover acute, chronic, and recurring respiratory conditions including asthma, COPD, emphysema, bronchitis, lung cancer, pulmonary fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, pneumonia, and sarcoidosis. The practice provides advanced diagnostic and therapeutic procedures such as pulmonary function testing, bronchoscopy with biopsy, endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB), bronchial thermoplasty (Alair System), ultrasound-guided thoracentesis, PleurX catheter placement, brachytherapy, and rhinoscopy. Sleep medicine services include diagnostic polysomnography, Multiple Sleep Latency Testing, Maintenance of Wakefulness Testing, home sleep testing, CPAP/Bi-Level therapy, oral appliances, surgical options, and positional therapies. The practice operates with 11–50 employees and is led by two named physicians: Jonathan P. Axel, M.D. (board-certified in Pulmonary Diseases, Sleep Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Internal Medicine) and Ivan F. Ackerman, M.D. (board-certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Diseases).

The business model is a fee-for-service professional services practice. Revenue is generated from patient consultations, diagnostic testing, and procedures reimbursed through major insurance plans and Medicare, with self-pay patients also accepted. The go-to-market is sales-led, relying on physician referrals, direct patient scheduling via phone, downloadable new patient packets, and limited telehealth delivery through Doxy.me. Marketing is conducted through a professional website with patient education content and links to external medical organizations. The practice has served the Tampa Bay community for over twenty years, has no disclosed external investors, parent company, or funding rounds, and does not publicly disclose financial information.

Name

Tampa Bay Pulmonary Medicine

Legal name

Tampa Bay Pulmonary Medicine, PA

Website

https://tampabaylung.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Tampa Bay Pulmonary Medicine, PA is a privately held Florida pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine practice serving adult and pediatric patients across four Tampa Bay locations, including three AASM-accredited Sleep Disorders Centers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine

NAICS

Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) (621111)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHLAKANAA

General Pulmonology Practice

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Specialist Medical Practice/Pulmonology & Sleep Medicine

SECONDARYHLAKAAAC

Asthma & Airway Disease Specialty Care

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Specialist Medical Practice/Allergy & Immunology

SECONDARYHLAKANAC

Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT) & Respiratory Diagnostics

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Specialist Medical Practice/Pulmonology & Sleep Medicine

SECONDARYHLAKANAE

COPD & Chronic Bronchitis Management

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Specialist Medical Practice/Pulmonology & Sleep Medicine

SECONDARYHSABAKAD

Respiratory & Sleep Therapy Equipment (Oxygen, CPAP/BiPAP, Nebulizers)

Home & Personal Services/Elder Care & In-Home Care Services/Medical Equipment & Home Mobility Support Services

Keywords

• Pulmonary medicine services
• Sleep disorder treatment
• Critical care medicine
• Bronchoscopy procedures
• Respiratory diagnostics

Headquarters

HQ city

Brandon

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Patient Care Services: The practice generates revenue through medical consultations, diagnostic testing (pulmonary function tests, sleep studies, bronchoscopies), and treatment services for pulmonary and sleep disorders. Services are provided to patients with insurance coverage and self-pay patients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Tampa Bay Pulmonary Medicine, PA is a private medical practice that diagnoses and treats respiratory and sleep disorders across four locations in the Tampa Bay area. Services span pulmonary disease management (asthma, COPD, lung cancer, interstitial lung disease), critical care, and sleep medicine delivered through three AASM-accredited Sleep Disorders Centers. The practice offers diagnostic and therapeutic procedures including pulmonary function testing, bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy, and bronchial thermoplasty, alongside televisits via Doxy.me.

Product overview

Tampa Bay Pulmonary Medicine PA is a medical practice providing consultative and managing pulmonary services, critical care, and sleep medicine across four locations in the Tampa Bay area. The practice operates three American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM)-accredited Sleep Disorders Centers in Brandon, Plant City, and New Tampa. Core services include comprehensive pulmonary disease management (asthma, COPD, lung cancer, interstitial lung disease, and others) and full-service sleep disorder care. The practice offers a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures including pulmonary function testing, bronchoscopy with biopsies, endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), bronchial thermoplasty, thoracentesis, brachytherapy, and electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy. Sleep treatments encompass CPAP/Bi-Level ventilation, oral appliances, surgical options, and home sleep testing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pulmonary Disease Management Diagnosis and treatment of acute, chronic, and recurring respiratory conditions including asthma, COPD, emphysema, bronchitis, interstitial lung disease, lung cancer, pulmonary fibrosis, sarcoidosis, and pneumonia for adults and children.
• Sleep Center Services Full-service care for sleep disorders in adults and children, including diagnostic polysomnography (PSG), CPAP/Bi-Level ventilation, Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT), and Home Sleep Testing (HST). Treatment options include CPAP, oral appliances, surgical options, weight loss programs, positional therapies, and nasal expiratory resistance devices.
• Advanced Bronchoscopy and Diagnostic Procedures Pulmonary function testing, bronchoscopy with lung biopsy, endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB), transbronchial needle aspiration biopsy, transthoracic needle aspiration biopsy, rhinoscopy, and flexible biopsy techniques performed with sedation.
• Bronchial Thermoplasty Treatment for severe asthma that delivers controlled radiofrequency energy to the airway wall via the Alair system to reduce smooth muscle tissue and improve breathing.
• Thoracic and Pleural Procedures Ultrasound-guided thoracentesis for removal of pleural fluid, PleurX catheter placement for recurrent malignant pleural effusions, and brachytherapy (internal radiation therapy via catheter) for central lung tumors or post high-dose external radiation patients.
• Critical Care Services Critical care medicine services for patients requiring intensive monitoring and treatment, provided by physicians board-certified in critical care medicine.
• Televisit Appointments Virtual visit appointments delivered through the Doxy.me telehealth platform for patients with scheduled televisit consultations.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Steward Health Care: Steward Health Care is a large regional hospital system with significant employed-physician networks in Florida and the Southeast. It is a broad incumbent comparable because it competes for the same pulmonologist talent, inpatient critical care coverage, and outpatient pulmonary referrals in the Tampa Bay market.
• Mayo Clinic: Mayo Clinic operates one of the largest integrated pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine programs in the U.S. It is a broad incumbent reference point for the clinical scope, advanced bronchoscopy, and sleep lab accreditation standards that Tampa Bay Pulmonary aspires to deliver at community scale.
• Cleveland Clinic: Cleveland Clinic houses a top-ranked pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine institute with advanced bronchoscopy, lung cancer, and ILD programs. As a broad incumbent, it defines the gold-standard clinical menu that well-equipped community practices like Tampa Bay Pulmonary benchmark against.

Emerging players

• U.S. Acute Care Solutions: U.S. Acute Care Solutions is a PE-backed (KKR / Welsh Carson) emergency and hospital medicine physician group. It is a relevant comparable as a PE-sponsored platform that aggregates independent physician practices into a multi-state specialty services company — a structural template applicable to a pulmonary/sleep roll-up.
• Sound Physicians: Sound Physicians is a PE-backed (Welsh Carson / KKR) national physician practice group focused on hospitalist, critical care, and emergency medicine. It is comparable as a specialty physician services platform demonstrating the multi-site, multi-state scaling model that a pulmonology platform could emulate with capital and corporate infrastructure.
• OneOncology: OneOncology is a PE-backed (TPG) platform aggregating independent oncology practices into a national specialty physician group. It is comparable as a reference PE-owned specialty physician platform, though oncology-specific; it illustrates the consolidation thesis applicable to a regional pulmonary/sleep group.
• Summit Health / CityMD: Summit Health (acquired by VillageMD / Walgreens Boots Alliance) is a multi-site, multi-specialty physician group including primary care, specialty care, and urgent care. It is comparable as a multi-specialty platform that combines primary and specialty physician services under one corporate structure — a model that could absorb a community pulmonary/sleep practice.

Direct peers

• National Jewish Health: National Jewish Health is the leading U.S. specialty hospital and research center focused on pulmonary and respiratory medicine. It is directly comparable as a specialty pulmonary provider with deep sleep medicine and advanced diagnostic capabilities, although it operates at academic-medical-center scale rather than community practice.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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