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Syntax Health Put a $7.5 Million Bet on Healthcare's Ugliest Spreadsheet - and Made Payers Show Their Math
A failed contract meeting convinced Rachael Jones that value-based care did not need another slogan. It needed a shared calculator - one that could expose hidden risk, price incentives, and let both sides negotiate from the same page.
Accorded
Accorded is a San Francisco-based healthcare actuarial intelligence company that pairs actuarial expertise with software to simplify and scale value-based contracting. Its platform helps payers, providers, and digital-health companies forecast, contract around, and validate the financial value of care across the value-based contracting lifecycle. Founded in 2019 (originally as Cerebrae) by health actuary Frank Cheung and engineer Thomas Bedington, the company's flagship product, Acumen, turns raw claims, eligibility, and engagement data into standardized, actuarially rigorous, ready-to-use data assets so analytics teams can spend less time wrangling data and more time on strategy.
Frank Cheung
Frank Cheung is the co-founder and CEO of Accorded, a San Francisco actuarial intelligence company building tools for value-based contracting in healthcare. A Fellow of the Society of Actuaries with more than 18 years as a health actuary, he spent years inside Blue Shield of California, Deloitte Consulting, and Collective Health before deciding the frustration he kept running into deserved a software fix. He started Accorded in 2019 with co-founder Thomas Bedington, and in 2024 launched Accorded Acumen, a platform that turns messy claims and eligibility data into actuarially rigorous, ready-to-use VBC data assets.