Paragon28 vs Surgery Exchange
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Paragon28
This app provides surgical product information and educational materials for internal teams, external customers, and medical professionals. It aims to enhance product knowledge and support market distribution efforts.
- Surgical product information
- Educational materials
- Internal team training
- External customer support
- Medical professional resources
- Market distribution support
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Paragon 28 continually makes efforts toward broad market distribution and extensive product knowledge. Superior product knowledge is beneficial to all parties and is something for which we strive, and is the driving purpose of this App. This App contains surgical product information and educational materials designed to benefit our internal team and external customers and medical professionals.
Surgery Exchange
This HIPAA-compliant software streamlines the "Bill Only" implant surgery workflow for providers. It manages scheduling, case planning, usage capture, and purchase order issuance, ensuring contract compliance and improving revenue cycle management.
- HIPAA/PHI compliant
- Manages "Bill Only" implant workflow
- Supports case planning
- Captures usage data
- Automates purchase orders
- Ensures contract compliance
- Improves revenue cycle management
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SURGERY EXCHANGE SOLUTIONS Surgery Exchange Solutions are HIPAA/PHI compliant software specifically designed to support the provider in managing the complicated implant “Bill Only” surgery workflow starting when surgery is scheduled, then moving to case planning activities, capturing usage, and issuing vendor’s purchase order. BENEFITS • Deliver 100% contract compliance in real time • Capture 100% of all charted bill only items • Improve revenue cycle management • Reduce handling costs through automation
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Paragon28 at 4.0 against Surgery Exchange's 3.7. Surgery Exchange's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Paragon28 holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Paragon28 ships an update every 3 months, Surgery Exchange every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Paragon28 | Surgery Exchange |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paragon28 | MedTech Exchange, Inc. |
Customer experience
Paragon28
Surgery Exchange
In-app purchases
Paragon28
No in-app purchases
Surgery Exchange
No in-app purchases
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