Auddia Inc. (NASDAQ: AUUD) has spotlighted Influence Healthcare, a healthtech company that leverages artificial intelligence and vertical integration to empower surgeons to lead value-based care (VBC) in high-spend specialties. The announcement comes as Auddia prepares to file its Form S-4 with the Securities and Exchange Commission later this week, a key step in its planned merger with Thramann Holdings LLC.
Influence Healthcare is the final subsidiary, along with LT350 and Voyex, that will join Auddia upon closing of the previously signed definitive merger agreement. The combined entity will be renamed McCarthy Finney and trade under the ticker MCFN on Nasdaq.
The company's model is designed as a structural alternative to hospital employment and private-equity rollups, which often reduce physician autonomy or prioritize financial engineering over clinical leadership. Influence Healthcare organizes surgeons into vertically integrated Value Based Enterprises (VBEs) that contract for bundled case-rate payments in spine, total joints, and other high-cost specialties. These VBEs are supported by advanced AI workflows that automate documentation, coding, episode validation, care-pathway coordination, staffing, supply chain, and logistics.
“Healthcare is about a physician and patient entering into a relationship to optimize delivery of the highest quality care,” said Jeff Thramann, M.D., CEO of Auddia and Founder of Influence Healthcare. “Only the physician has the knowledge, relationship with the patient, and clinical authority to make the many real-time decisions required to deliver the highest quality care at the lowest possible price.”
Dr. Thramann emphasized that Influence Healthcare is built on the premise that physicians deliver value, so they should lead the system. “Influence Healthcare is built on the belief that surgeons should lead the care model, not be absorbed into someone else’s balance sheet,” he said. “We are creating a structure where surgeons control the clinical pathway, participate in the value they create, and are supported by AI systems that eliminate the administrative drag that is making independent practice difficult.”
Post-merger, Influence Healthcare will leverage shared AI services from McCarthy Finney to deploy agentic-AI workflows that automate clinical documentation, coding and billing preparation, episode-of-care validation, prior-authorization workflows, care-pathway adherence monitoring, and communication across the episode. These workflows aim to eliminate the administrative layers that have historically required multiple full-time staff per surgeon, contributing to burnout and rising costs.
“AI should not replace physicians, it should replace the administrative friction that prevents physicians from practicing at the top of their license,” Dr. Thramann said. “Our platform gives surgeons the environment they need to deliver a more predictable, coordinated, efficient, and compassionate episode of care.”
Influence Healthcare’s model is designed to deliver lower total cost of care, improved outcomes, reduced administrative overhead, predictable economics for payers and employers, and restored autonomy for surgeons. The company’s initial focus is on spine and total joint surgery, with plans to expand to additional specialties.
For more information, visit www.influencehealthcare.com. Additional details about the merger are available on Auddia’s website at www.auddia.com.
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