Founded in 2011, First Stop Health was the idea of co-founders Ken Anderson, Dr. Mark Friedman, and Patrick Spain. Their goal was to provide telemedicine services to address the U.S. healthcare systems' twin challenges of rapidly rising and unsustainable costs and the growing gap in access to primary care physicians. Through our nationwide network of physicians we treat members' everyday health issues over the phone and online, any time. Providers can log onto our platform from anywhere. Typical consults take ~5 minutes.