Karpa Health vs Wheel: Which Is Better for Your Practice?

Wheel operates in an entirely different market segment than Karpa Health. With $216 million in venture funding, partnerships with Amazon Pharmacy and Walmart, and 7 million patient visits processed, Wheel is enterprise telehealth infrastructure for the Fortune 500. Their Wheel Horizon platform provides a modular care enablement system with 70+ pre-built clinical protocols and a nationwide clinician network.

The fundamental model difference is clinical ownership. Wheel supplies its own board-certified clinicians across all 50 states. When Amazon Pharmacy or Walmart offers virtual care through Wheel, patients see Wheel's providers, not the retailer's. This makes Wheel ideal for large organizations building digital health products at scale but irrelevant for independent medical practices that already have their own physicians.

A primary care physician or med spa owner looking to add peptide therapy to their practice would not use Wheel. Wheel's contracts, integration requirements, and enterprise pricing are built for organizations doing tens of thousands of patient visits. Karpa Health serves the opposite end of the market: individual practices that need turnkey program infrastructure while keeping their own physician at the center of the clinical relationship.