Today, a doctor who wants a manageable lifestyle has two bad options. Stay in traditional practice and keep the real medicine but tied to a building, a schedule you don’t control, and someone else’s quota. Or become a gig worker, working a queue of strangers with no panel and no stake. Closer Clinic is the third option: practice from anywhere, on your own terms, and still do real medicine you own.
We give you flexibility and a real practice.
Build your days around your life
Practice from anywhere and set your own schedule. Your patients can be anywhere too — your catchment is a whole state, not a commute radius. No building to report to, no non-compete, no one else deciding your hours. It’s the flexibility that lets you be there for the people who count on you and still practice medicine you’re proud of.
The paperwork stops being your job
The paperwork that eats a lot of your day comes from old software and older processes, never built for what’s possible now. Here it’s offloaded to an AI layer made for it: intake, charts, prior auths, scheduling, billing, the inbox. You’re the attending. The agents do the legwork, and you do the medicine.
Your panel, your clinical calls
You have your own patients, whom you know and follow over time, and every clinical call is yours. You build a focused practice around the conditions you want to manage well. It’s the continuous, relationship medicine you went into this for, rather than a queue of one-off strangers and box-checking.
Own a piece of what you build
Closer Clinic is a public benefit corporation, and every physician holds equity that vests over time, so as the group grows, your stake grows with it. Your income beats a traditional group at full practice, and the early ramp comes with a guaranteed draw, benefits, and covered malpractice.
Put us next to what you have now.
We only build practices around conditions that need a relationship.
Founded by two digital health veterans.
Jay Parkinson
Founder · MD + MPH
“I’ve been building online medical practices since 2008. The vision was always the same — let doctors do the medicine, not the paperwork. So was the constraint: the technology to remove the paperwork didn’t exist. In the last year, that finally changed. Closer Clinic is the practice I’ve been trying to build for seventeen years. It’s the first time it’s been possible.”
Josh Emdur
Chief Medical Officer · DO
“I’ve been working toward this model for years: a practice where physicians have real autonomy, where care is built on lasting relationships instead of transactions, and where the doctors doing the work own a piece of what they build. AI is what finally makes it possible. It clears the administrative burden out of the way and leaves the clinical judgment where it belongs.”
As a public benefit corporation, we exist to serve our doctors and patients.
Our chartered purpose is to improve the quality, accessibility, continuity, and economic sustainability of care for people in the United States living with chronic conditions. We do that by:
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Building the technology and operational infrastructure that lets board-certified physicians deliver longitudinal, insurance-covered specialized care at the top of their license.
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Supporting durable physician–patient relationships through the continuity of care.
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Advancing a physician-aligned operating model where clinicians share in the long-term economic value of the practices they build.
The practice you’d build if you could.
One that fits your whole life: real medicine you own, practiced on your own terms. If that’s the practice you’ve been waiting for, let’s talk.