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Aligned Marketplace's $31 Million Bet: Pay Doctors to Keep Workers Out of the Hospital
The New York startup bundles 3,000-plus independent clinics into one employer benefit. Its wager is simple, expensive and now measurable: better primary care can prevent the hospital bill before it arrives.
CoapTech
CoapTech is a Baltimore-based medical technology company that built the world's first ultrasound-guided gastrostomy system. Its FDA-cleared PUMA-G System lets bedside clinicians place feeding tubes using only ultrasound imaging and a patented magnet-aligned catheter, replacing procedures that traditionally required an operating room, endoscopy, or interventional radiology. The approach aims to make feeding-tube placement faster, safer, and cheaper, and has been used in more than 1,000 patients across ICUs, step-down units, and long-term acute care hospitals.
Sana
Sana is an Austin-based health insurtech building modern, tech-enabled health plans for small and medium-sized businesses. By cutting out the administrative bloat of the traditional 'Big 5' insurers and bundling free virtual primary care and care navigation, Sana says it can lower employer-paid premiums by roughly 20-30% while still offering rich benefits. It sells level-funded and group medical plans direct to employers and through brokers, pairing claims transparency with its own Sana Care clinical team.
MD Ally | 911 Network Navigation
MD Ally is a New York-based health-tech company that plugs telehealth directly into the 911 system. Founded in 2018 by Shanel Fields, the daughter of a volunteer EMT, the platform adds a 'virtual response tier' so dispatchers can route non-emergency callers to the right care instead of automatically sending an ambulance and an ER trip. By partnering with public-safety agencies and insurance payors, MD Ally cuts unnecessary emergency costs while connecting patients to telehealth, mental health and social services.