Tendo Marketplace: A Shoppable Healthcare Marketplace for Bundled Specialty Care

Healthcare costs are rising, specialty care remains fragmented, and employers face growing pressure to manage spend. Patients, providers, employers, and care navigators are demanding price transparency, predictable costs, and simplified purchasing.

Tendo Marketplace is a shoppable healthcare platform that enables bundled specialty care with upfront pricing and automated payment distribution.

What Is Tendo Marketplace?

Tendo Marketplace is a national specialty care marketplace built on bundled pricing.

By connecting patients, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), employers, and care navigation partners in one marketplace, Tendo delivers transparency, choice, and simplicity across the healthcare ecosystem.

Instead of fragmented fee-for-service billing and multiple post-procedure bills, Tendo enables:

• Upfront bundled pricing for medical procedures
• Shoppable healthcare services across specialties
• Automated multi-party payment distribution
• Reduced administrative burden for providers and navigators

Through horizontal bundling, Tendo aggregates services from facilities, surgeons, anesthesiologists, and other participating providers into a single, transparent episode-based price.

A Bundled Care Platform for Patients, Providers, and Employers

• For patients: MDsave, a Tendo Marketplace, provides access to transparent, upfront procedure pricing and the ability to compare providers across locations before care is delivered. Rather than navigating surprise bills and fragmented statements, patients can shop for care with clarity and predictability.
• For providers: Tendo Marketplace offers a point-of-sale “cash register” platform that enables hospitals and ASCs to package and sell bundled procedures directly to self-pay patients and employer-directed programs. This model helps providers capture additional revenue opportunities while reducing uncompensated care.
• For care navigators and self-funded employers, Care Connect provides access to a directly contracted provider network and bundled payment infrastructure. By eliminating contracting and billing friction through automated settlement, Tendo enables employer-directed care with built-in transparency and quality.

National Provider Network for Specialty Care

Tendo Marketplace operates a directly contracted provider network of 300+ hospitals and ASCs nationwide. Shoppable bundled services span high-impact specialties such as orthopedics, gastroenterology, general surgery, spine procedures, OBGYN, oncology and infusion services, cardiology, ENT, bariatrics, imaging, and laboratory services. These categories represent areas where costs are high and bundled pricing can meaningfully improve predictability and value.

Built for the Self-Funded Employer Market

63% of covered workers are enrolled in self-funded employer health plans. Employers are increasingly seeking:

• Cost management solutions
• Direct contracting models
• Predictable episode pricing
• Transparent healthcare purchasing

The employer-directed bundled care market represents a significant multi-billion-dollar opportunity. Tendo Marketplace powers employer healthcare solutions through Care Connect, enabling navigation partners and third-party administrators (TPAs) to direct members to bundled, pre-negotiated care.

How Bundled Pricing Works

Tendo constructs bundled services across defined dimensions—including the participating providers within an episode, variations in procedural codes, and the scope of included services—to create a single, upfront price. Tendo collects payment and automatically distributes funds to participating providers, transforming traditional revenue cycle complexity into a coordinated, consumer-friendly transaction model. This infrastructure supports direct-to-consumer purchasing, employer-directed bundled care, and API-based integration within care navigation platforms.

Why Shoppable Healthcare Matters

Specialty care accounts for a significant portion of healthcare spending, yet traditional models have not meaningfully addressed cost variation and administrative friction. Episode-based bundled pricing introduces clarity and aligned incentives around efficiency and quality. By transforming fragmented billing into transparent, single-price service bundles, Tendo Marketplace serves as infrastructure for scalable, shoppable care nationwide.

If you’re interested in bundled care, direct contracting, or specialty care marketplace solutions, schedule a demo to learn how Tendo can support your organization.