# Karpa Health vs Wheel

**Author:** Chad H., Co-founder, Karpa Health  
**Last reviewed:** September 18, 2026

Karpa Health (https://karpahealth.com) vs Wheel (https://wheel.com). A head-to-head on the decisions that determine which platform fits a clinic launching a peptide, GLP-1, TRT, or HRT program.

## How to choose
**Karpa Health** is a turnkey program launcher: you own the patient relationship and the revenue, set your own prices against pass-through pharmacy costs, and launch under your own brand. Published platform pricing starts at $297/mo. Karpa is LegitScript certified, and White-Label/Full Clinic includes a custom website, patient portal, and intake forms.

**Wheel** is the stronger fit when Fortune 500 companies building digital health products at scale is the deciding factor.

## Side by side
**Type:** Enterprise clinician network / telehealth infrastructure.  
**Best for:** Fortune 500 companies building digital health products at scale.  
**Physician model:** Supplies its own 50-state licensed provider network.  
**Pricing:** Enterprise only; no public pricing (quote). Pricing model: varies.  
**Patient ownership:** No.  
**White-label branding:** No.  
**LegitScript certified:** Unknown.

## What Karpa offers
Karpa Health is a turn-key platform built for two types of operators: licensed clinicians who want to add cash-pay GLP-1, TRT, peptide, or HRT programs to their existing practice, and entrepreneurs or multi-state operators who want to launch a fully branded telehealth clinic without a medical license. For clinicians, Karpa provides a full EMR and clinical workflow while the physician maintains prescribing authority. For non-clinicians, Karpa supplies a 50-state licensed provider network that handles prescribing and clinical oversight under the operator's white-label brand. Both tracks include patient intake, AI-powered clinical triage, and direct compounding pharmacy integration with one-click ordering. Karpa Health is a LegitScript Certified Healthcare Merchant and a LegitScript Enterprise Certification Partner, which speeds up and lowers the cost of a partner's own LegitScript certification.

## Wheel: Fortune 500 companies building digital health products at scale
Wheel is a $216M-funded enterprise telehealth infrastructure company that provides clinician networks and virtual care technology to large organizations. For non-clinicians looking to launch a telehealth clinic, Wheel's 50-state provider network is a direct conceptual competitor to Karpa's doctor network - but Wheel requires Fortune 500-level contracts, integration work, and resources that make it inaccessible to independent clinics or entrepreneurs.

**Why each is used:**
- **Karpa:** Custom marketing website, patient portal, and intake forms built for you (White-Label & Full Clinic)
- **Wheel:** Massive scale with 7 million+ patient visits processed
- **Wheel:** 50-state clinician network with 95%+ on-time response rate

## Wheel: limitations
- Enterprise-only contracts, not accessible to independent clinics or entrepreneurs
- No white-label branding support for small clinic owners
- Significant integration requirements and enterprise-level minimums
- No pharmacy fulfillment, intake forms, or patient workflow tooling included
- You get a clinician network only - no platform to run a clinic

Karpa authored this comparison using publicly available sources reviewed September 18, 2026. “Not publicly specified” means we could not verify that detail from a public source.

Last reviewed: September 18, 2026

## Sources
- [Wheel Health Platform](https://www.wheel.com)
- [Wheel Press and Partnerships](https://www.wheel.com/press)
- [Wheel Company History](https://www.wheel.com/about)

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