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Choice Medical Group brings care closer to home
In California’s High Desert, Choice Medical Group connects a network of 300-plus providers with urgent care, nursing support, and a senior club where the paintbrushes matter, too.
The nursing-home rulebook is a maze. Zimmet built a business selling the map.
Zimmet started with Medicare cost reports, found a market full of disconnected rules and data, and spent three decades turning that confusion into consulting, software and outsourced clinical work. Its first software win also exposed the flaw that shaped everything after it.
HealthAxis Wants to Make Health Insurance’s Boring Back Office Actually Work
HealthAxis runs the machinery most members never see: claims, eligibility, provider data and the audit trail behind them. Its bet is that health plans will buy software and operational help together - if the savings arrive without a compliance hangover.
Brave Health Bet on the Patients Telehealth Forgot - Then Had to Make the Math Work
Most virtual-therapy companies chased easy-to-reach customers. Brave Health built for Medicaid members, where the hard part is not launching a video call - it is finding patients, accepting their insurance and keeping care financially sustainable.
Tenure Health Bet That Medicare Needed a Better Front Door - Then Sold the Blueprint
Tenure Health started with a consumer problem - retirement healthcare feels like paperwork with a pulse. Three years, roughly $7 million and several stops and starts later, NCD bought the company for the product machinery behind the promise.
The Healthcare Holding Company Building a Front Door That Opens at Home
True Ventures Group is assembling home care, remote monitoring and virtual medicine under one roof - a practical bet that the hardest part of healthcare is often what happens between appointments.
The Fund Betting That the Poorest ZIP Codes Are the Best Returns
Andy Slavitt ran Medicare. Now he runs a $1.4 billion fund arguing that the patients Wall Street ignores are where the money is - and the math, so far, agrees.
Humana
How a 1961 nursing-home bet in Louisville became a Medicare Advantage powerhouse - and why Humana is now buying the clinic, the pharmacy and the house call instead of just the insurance card.
careCycle
careCycle (YC W25) builds voice AI teams for Medicare agencies and Field Marketing Organizations. Its AI agents handle the non-licensed parts of the member journey - pre-screening, appointment booking, 24/7 questions, and post-enrollment follow-up - then warm-transfer to licensed human agents. The pitch is that a Medicare agency loses roughly half its members each year to poor post-sale engagement, and careCycle keeps those members answered, called back, and retained without the agency hiring a call center.
Conduit Health
Conduit Health is a New York-based healthcare technology company that rebuilds the path to insurance-covered home medical supplies for Medicare and Medicaid patients. It combines clinical evaluation, insurance authorization, and physical supply fulfillment into one vertically integrated platform, powered by CareOS - an agentic AI engine trained on 50,000+ patient interactions that predicts approval likelihood and automates payer paperwork. Founded in 2024 by Natan Wise and Rocky Seftel, Conduit has delivered supplies to more than 50,000 patients and works with 100+ health plans covering nearly 90 million lives.
Culina Health
Culina Health is a virtual nutrition care company founded in 2020 by registered dietitians Vanessa Rissetto and Tamar Samuels. It pairs patients with credentialed registered dietitians for one-on-one, insurance-covered nutrition therapy delivered via telehealth across all 50 states. The company blends evidence-based clinical care with culturally affirming, multilingual support to treat conditions ranging from diabetes and heart disease to GI disorders and eating disorders, while partnering with major insurers, Medicare, and employers to make expert nutrition care accessible.
Televero Behavioral Health
Televero Behavioral Health is an Austin, Texas physician-led virtual behavioral health practice that delivers online therapy, psychiatry, medication management, and neurotesting for conditions like anxiety, depression, ADHD and autism. Built as a licensed medical practice rather than an app or marketplace, it pairs same-day and same-week access with clinical oversight from MDs, nurse practitioners and licensed counselors, and accepts commercial insurance, Medicare and Medicaid so cost is not a barrier to care.
Vytalize Health
Vytalize Health is a value-based care enabler and Accountable Care Organization (ACO) that helps independent primary care physicians care for Medicare patients while lowering the total cost of care. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, it pairs a physician-built clinical data platform (Vytal Insights) with a wraparound clinical team and virtual clinic (Vytal Care) so small practices can succeed in Medicare's advanced value-based programs like ACO REACH and MSSP. The company serves hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries across dozens of states and was named the No. 1 fastest-growing private company in America by Inc. in 2024.
MyBackHub (NSite Medical)
MyBackHub, built by NSite Medical (legally Nsite, Inc.), is an AI-powered digital health platform for non-operative back and spine care. Spun out of the founders' earlier scoliosis work at the National Scoliosis Clinic, it uses a smartphone-based, radiation-free AI scan (the PostureBackNeck Assessment) to analyze posture and spinal alignment at home, then builds a personalized recovery plan combining adaptive exercises, live Pilates classes, licensed physical therapists, Stanford's Empowered Relief pain program, and a 24/7 AI companion. The company holds FDA 510(k) clearance for its AI-based scoliosis scanning app and delivers care at little to no cost through select Medicare and insurance plans.
Acentra Health
Acentra Health is a McLean, Virginia healthcare technology and clinical services company formed in 2023 from the merger of CNSI and Kepro. It builds Medicaid and Medicare systems, care management platforms, and quality-oversight services for state and federal government health programs, combining public-sector software with clinical staff who review authorizations, assessments, and appeals. Backed by The Carlyle Group, it employs roughly 3,300-3,400 people across the U.S. and India.
Ceresti Health
Ceresti Health is a Carlsbad, California digital-health company that turns family caregivers into the front line of dementia care. Through a cell-enabled tablet, weekly one-on-one coaching from a personal care navigator, and claims-driven predictive analytics, Ceresti helps spouses and adult children spot the small changes - a urinary tract infection, a missed medication - that otherwise snowball into costly hospitalizations. The company sells to Medicare Advantage plans, ACOs, and providers operating under the CMS GUIDE payment model, and backs its program with a documented cost-savings guarantee: more than 50% fewer avoidable hospitalizations and roughly $6,800 in medical savings per enrolled patient per year.
Compassus
Compassus is a national home-based care company headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, delivering hospice, palliative care, home health and home infusion services to patients wherever they call home. Jointly owned by TowerBrook Capital Partners and the Catholic health system Ascension, Compassus operates across roughly 30 states with about 8,000 employees and has built its growth around joint ventures with major health systems - including OhioHealth, Providence and Ascension - so that hospitals can extend care into the home under a shared brand while Compassus runs the clinical operations.
Kivo Health
Kivo Health delivers virtual pulmonary rehabilitation for people living with COPD. Patients receive a Kivo Kit - a cellular-connected iPad, Bluetooth pulse oximeter, and exercise bands - then join live small-group video sessions with licensed respiratory therapists twice a week from their living rooms. The Y Combinator-backed, San Francisco company partners with health systems like UCLA Health, UCSF Health, Cedars-Sinai, and Novant Health to keep Medicare members out of the hospital while improving symptoms, activity, and mood.
Accompany Health
Accompany Health is a Bethesda, Maryland-based healthcare company building integrated primary, behavioral, and social care for low-income patients with complex medical needs. Founded in 2022 and publicly launched in January 2024 with $56 million in Series A funding, the company pairs a proprietary care-model technology platform with at-home and virtual visits, 24/7 support, and help navigating benefits like Medicaid and SNAP. It aims to be the kind of patient-centered, dignified care system that high-need, under-resourced patients rarely get.
Better Health
Better Health is a modern medical supplier and digital care platform that helps people living with chronic conditions get the supplies they need at home, delivered with peer support, education, and insurance handled for them. Founded in 2019 by Naama Stauber Breckler and Adam Breckler, the company bundles diabetes, ostomy, urology, incontinence, and wound care products with human peer coaching, operating across 48 states and contracting directly with payers including Medicare, Medicaid, Cigna, Humana, Florida Blue, and Oscar.
Cadence
Cadence is a New York-based clinical technology company that helps health systems deliver continuous, proactive care to patients with chronic conditions at home. It pairs FDA-cleared connected devices that track vitals with an AI-powered care platform and a 24/7 clinical team, so doctors can catch problems - rising blood pressure, fluid buildup, glucose swings - before they become emergencies. Cadence partners with more than 20 leading U.S. health systems and supports tens of thousands of patients across dozens of states, targeting chronic diseases such as heart failure, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and COPD.
Chapter
Chapter is an AI-native Medicare advisory platform that helps older Americans choose the right Medicare and retirement healthcare coverage. Instead of acting as a commission-driven marketplace, Chapter reviews plans from every insurance carrier nationwide and pairs that data with licensed, independent advisors to deliver unbiased recommendations. Founded in New York in 2020, the company has supported more than 500,000 enrollees and crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue.
Greater Good Health
Greater Good Health is a Los Angeles-based healthcare company rethinking primary care for seniors. It runs value-based primary care clinics and clinical programs built around a nurse practitioner-centric care model, designed to manage complex Medicare populations through proactive, preventive, whole-person care. The company partners with health plans and risk-bearing organizations to expand access where physician shortages have left aging patients underserved.
Perry Health
Perry Health is a New York-based digital health company delivering remote, doctor-led diabetes management for people living with type 2 diabetes. Members receive a cellular-connected glucose meter, unlimited test strips shipped to their door, and ongoing 1:1 support from a care team of clinicians, dietitians, and accountability coaches. The program is built for Medicare-eligible seniors and is offered at no out-of-pocket cost for those on eligible plans. Perry reports that members saw an average 2.5-point reduction in A1C within their first 12 months.
Spark Advisors
Spark Advisors is a New York-based technology-enabled Medicare brokerage that builds an all-in-one platform for independent agents, agency principals, and call centers. It combines an agency management system, a Medicare-specific CRM, back-office services, and AI-powered tools to help brokers grow their books of business and keep clients enrolled. The company supports more than 10,000 brokers and powered roughly 250,000 Medicare enrollments in 2025.
Molina Healthcare
Molina Healthcare is a Fortune 500 managed care company headquartered in Long Beach, California, that provides government-sponsored health insurance - chiefly Medicaid, Medicare, and ACA Marketplace plans - to low-income and underserved Americans. Founded in 1980 by emergency-room physician Dr. C. David Molina, it grew from a single clinic in Wilmington into a multi-state insurer covering roughly 5.8 million members across some 20 states, with about $43 billion in 2025 premium revenue.
WelbeHealth
WelbeHealth is a Menlo Park-based public benefit company operating PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) centers across California, delivering comprehensive medical, social, and in-home care that lets frail seniors keep living in their own communities instead of nursing homes.