Commons Clinic

Commons Clinic operates a vertically integrated specialty health system in the Los Angeles area, providing spine, joint replacement, orthopedic, sports medicine and pain management care, along with preventive diagnostics. Clinical services span back and neck conditions, osteoarthritis, sciatica, herniated discs, hip/knee/shoulder/elbow replacement, foot and ankle care, hand, wrist and elbow care, sprains, tears, fractures and interventional pain management. Physicians are fellowship-trained specialists, and the group highlights work in artificial disc replacement, motion-preserving techniques, minimally invasive and robotic surgery, including Mako robotic joint replacement.

The company runs eight clinics — Santa Monica, Marina del Rey, Long Beach (Douglas Park and Bixby Knolls), Lakewood, Beverly Hills, Torrance and Westlake Village — plus a physician-owned ambulatory surgery center, the Marina Orthopedic & Spine Institute (MOSI) in Marina del Rey, where surgeons perform same-day spine, orthopedic, sports medicine and total joint procedures. Clinics offer on-site imaging (including X-ray), physical therapy, care navigation and virtual visits; Santa Monica is the first location to host all of the company's Advanced Care Programs.

In June 2025 Commons Clinic introduced Wholebody, a multi-specialty preventive suite combining full-body MRI, 100-plus biomarker labs and expert care-team analysis with five specialty programs covering cardiometabolic health, musculoskeletal conditions, women's health, weight management and hormonal balance, gastrointestinal health, chronic pain and preventive oncology. Wholebody patients receive up to three specialty consults through a national expert network and priority placement into a vetted "FastPass" network of primary care partners. Weight loss, cardiology and women's health service lines are listed on the website as forthcoming.

Founding story

Commons Clinic was founded in 2021 by Nick Aubin, co-founder and CEO, and Paulo da Costa, co-founder and COO, in Los Angeles, with the stated aim of shifting specialty care away from a hospital-centric model toward physician-led ambulatory and value-based delivery.

Business model

Commons Clinic owns and operates the full care platform — clinics, physician group, ambulatory surgery center and native virtual clinic — rather than referring patients into hospital systems. It markets all-inclusive bundled care programs for procedures such as total joint replacement and spinal fusion, where a single upfront price covers in-person and virtual physician visits, on-site diagnostic imaging, personalized treatment plans, all day-of-surgery services (surgeon, facility, anesthesiologist, supplies and implants) and post-operative recovery programs.

Revenue comes from patient care billed to commercial insurance and from bundled, transparent-priced care episodes contracted with health plans and employers. The company states it works with major carriers including Aetna, Cigna, Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California and UnitedHealthcare, and with surgical benefit partners such as Carrum, Transcarent and LanternCare; at Series A it described simple bundled payments (surgical and non-surgical) sold to health plans and employers with guaranteed savings, and said it had secured a top-five national health plan as its anchor value-based partner.

Traction

Within its first two years the company said it had added six leading Los Angeles surgeons, opened three clinics and signed a top-five national health plan as its anchor value-based partner. By 2025 it listed eight clinic locations plus the MOSI ambulatory surgery center, a physician roster of roughly 19 specialists and therapists, and in-network relationships with dozens of carriers. Clinical milestones cited include the first Mako robotic revision hip replacement, published research on allogeneic mesenchymal precursor cells for chronic low back pain, and a physician's appointment as Associate Editor at the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

Latest developments

In June 2025 the company closed a $26 million Series B led by RA Capital with Floating Point, SteelSky Ventures, Time BioVentures, Courtside Ventures and its own physicians participating, and launched Wholebody, extending its musculoskeletal center-of-excellence model into cardiac, metabolic, oncology and women's health services. Brad Hively joined the board, and the website lists weight loss, cardiology and women's health offerings as coming soon.