# AKASA

> AKASA sells healthcare-specific AI software and services to U.S. hospitals and health systems. Its current focus is the mid-revenue cycle: reading inpatient records before billing, finding supported coding and documentation opportunities, and helping staff act on them. Earlier products automated claim and authorization status checks. The company says it builds models tuned to each health system's clinical and financial data, with human review and integration into existing workflows.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** South San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Malinka Walaliyadde (Co-founder and CEO), Ben Beadle-Ryby (Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer), Varun Ganapathi (Co-founder and advisor; formerly CTO), Andy Atwal (Co-founder and Vice President of R&D Special Projects)
- **Products:** Unified Automation, Authorization Advisor, Coding Optimizer, CDI Optimizer, Prebill Optimization Suite
- **Notable:** Cleveland Clinic completed an AKASA AI coding rollout across its U.S. locations in four months in 2025 and reported processing tens of thousands of encounters., AKASA reported that its client base represented roughly 500 hospitals across all 50 U.S. states., AKASA said it had trained healthcare-specific models on 43 million clinical documents by the time of its platform update.

## Products & services

- **Unified Automation** — Original AI and expert-assisted platform for repetitive revenue cycle work, including claim and authorization status workflows.
- **Authorization Advisor** — Generative AI assistant for prior authorization work.
- **Coding Optimizer** — Reviews inpatient source documentation and surfaces coding opportunities and risks with links to supporting evidence.
- **CDI Optimizer** — Helps clinical documentation integrity teams find supported documentation gaps and query opportunities.
- **Prebill Optimization Suite** — Combines coding and CDI review before billing across inpatient encounters.
- **AI Advisor** — Research assistant for revenue cycle teams to find answers, documents, and context.
- **Auth Status and Claim Status** — Automates status checks and follow-ups for authorizations and claims.

## Achievements

- Cleveland Clinic completed an AKASA AI coding rollout across its U.S. locations in four months in 2025 and reported processing tens of thousands of encounters.
- AKASA reported that its client base represented roughly 500 hospitals across all 50 U.S. states.
- AKASA said it had trained healthcare-specific models on 43 million clinical documents by the time of its platform update.
- Black Book Research ranked AKASA first among 31 promising healthcare RCM startups in 2025, according to AKASA's release.
- Named a Top Healthcare Technology Company of 2026 by The Healthcare Technology Report.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Named to The Healthcare Technology Report's Top Healthcare Technology Companies of 2026 list.
- **2026-06** — Appointed physician and former health system executive Nirav Kamdar vice president of clinical strategy; the company said its mid-cycle GenAI business had grown more than tenfold since mid-2024.
- **2026-03** — Reported its sixth consecutive Great Place To Work certification.
- **2025-10** — Cleveland Clinic and AKASA announced an expanded partnership following enterprise coding rollout.

## Links

- Website: https://akasa.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/akasahealth/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/akasahealth

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Last updated: 2026-09-29