BOULDER, CO – Auddia Inc. (NASDAQ: AUUD) today highlighted Influence Healthcare, a healthtech company leveraging artificial intelligence and vertical integration to empower surgeons to lead the adoption of value-based care (VBC) across surgical specialties. The company also announced its intention to file a Form S-4 with the Securities and Exchange Commission later this week as the next step in the merger process.
Influence Healthcare is the final subsidiary, alongside LT350 and Voyex, that will join Auddia upon closing of the previously signed definitive merger agreement. The merger contemplates a business combination between Auddia and Thramann Holdings, LLC, with the combined entity to be named McCarthy Finney and trade under the ticker MCFN.
“Healthcare is about a physician and patient entering into a relationship to optimize delivery of the highest quality care. 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,” said Jeff Thramann, M.D., CEO of Auddia and founder of Influence Healthcare. “Influence Healthcare is aimed at leveraging AI to minimize administrative noise so that physicians and all the other healthcare professionals with hands on patients are empowered to deliver the highest value care.”
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-spend specialties. These VBEs are supported by advanced AI workflows that automate documentation, coding, episode validation, care-pathway coordination, staffing, supply chain, and logistics. The model is designed as a structural alternative to private-equity rollups and hospital employment, giving surgeons governance authority and allowing episode-based economics to flow to clinicians.
Post-merger, Influence Healthcare will leverage shared AI services from McCarthy Finney to deploy agentic-AI workflows that automate clinical documentation, coding, billing preparation, prior authorization, and care-pathway adherence monitoring. “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.
The model integrates surgeon leadership, facility partners, post-acute providers, and AI-enabled care coordination to create a cohesive end-to-end specialty care model without requiring surgeons to sell their practices. Influence Healthcare’s initial focus is on spine and total joint surgery, with plans to expand to additional specialties. For more information, visit www.influencehealthcare.com.
Auddia anticipates filing the S-4 later this week. The merger agreement was signed on February 17, 2026, and upon completion, Auddia will change its name to McCarthy Finney. McCarthy Finney is an AI holding company that will deliver AI and Web3 services to its four portfolio companies: LT350, Influence Healthcare, Voyex, and Auddia. For more about Auddia, visit www.auddia.com.
