
After Morgan Stanley, venture capital, Instacart and Scale AI, Sam Slezek chose a gloriously unglamorous problem: helping healthcare organizations get through the paperwork between a provider and an insurance network.
Arctic Health is a New York healthcare startup (YC P26) that automates provider credentialing and payer contracting. It pairs credentialing experts with an AI platform to get healthcare providers in-network across all 50 states and 300+ insurance networks, handling documentation, CAQH profiles, payer submissions, rate negotiation, and ongoing compliance so clinics and health systems can get paid faster.