Rethinking Patient Financing as a Practice Differentiator

When a prospective patient asks what a procedure costs, most practices hesitate. In this episode of MedShark Insider, host Bill Fukui talks with Yehuda Matar, Chief Business Officer at Ottri, about why that hesitation costs practices real cases—and how to fix it.

Yehuda explains Ottri’s role as a technology layer, not a lender, using a single branded application and a soft credit pull to route each patient to the lender most likely to approve them. That “multi-lender orchestration” replaces the awkward desk lined with competing finance logos. On the practice side, he describes how the same visibility can strengthen a provider’s own access to growth capital.

Bill and Yehuda dig into where financing belongs in the patient journey: on the website, upfront, framed as transparency rather than a sales pitch. They cover using cost as a lower-barrier call to action, why AI search may soon shape how patients choose a surgeon, and the questions every owner should ask about their current financing partner.

 

Links Mentioned

MedShark Digital: https://www.medsharkdigital.com

Ottri: https://www.ottri.com/

Yehuda Matar: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/yehuda-matar-4b966a60