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Kyruus Health and the Mystery of the Empty Appointment
Patients wait months. Appointment slots sit unused. Kyruus Health built a business in the gap between the two - by teaching healthcare organizations to know whom they can actually book.
Patrick Quigley Put a Price Tag on the Waiting Room
A $970 gap between two prices for the same scan gave the engineer and operator a question worth building a company around: what if insurance showed its work?
Sidecar Health wants you to shop for care - and keep half the savings
A $970 MRI price gap helped inspire an insurer built around visible prices, open provider choice and money back. Its move into employer coverage puts that idea to a much bigger test.
CarGurus made car prices clearer. Then came the wholesale bill.
The car-shopping marketplace turned price comparisons into a subscription business. Its retreat from CarOffer shows how much harder the job becomes when software has to move the metal.
SOLVE Turned Bond Traders' Messy Inboxes Into a Market Data Machine
The bond market still speaks in fragments - runs, chats, spreadsheets and stale prints. SOLVE built a business by teaching machines to read that mess, then used more than $80 million and a string of acquisitions to turn the resulting data into pricing intelligence.
Zelis Wants to Fix the Part of Healthcare Nobody Sees - the Money Moving Underneath It
Most patients will never know its name. Yet Zelis helps decide what a claim should cost, how a provider gets paid and whether a confusing bill becomes a three-month ordeal - or a solvable problem.
The $280,000 Leak: How SlicedHealth Helps Small Hospitals Make Payers Pay What They Promised
A 25-bed Texas hospital found $280,000 in underpayments in one month. SlicedHealth is turning that kind of invisible leakage into a to-do list - and betting that hospital finance teams will pay for proof before they pay for another dashboard.
Bento
Bento is a Boston-based dental benefits technology company that replaces traditional dental insurance with a transparent, self-funded model. Its patented, AI-powered platform connects employers, associations, dentists and DSOs with real-time claims adjudication, customizable plan design and in-office membership plans. The only dental benefits solution endorsed by the American Dental Association, Bento says it can cut employer dental costs by 20-40% while giving members access to hundreds of thousands of provider access points nationwide.
Pulse Protocol, Inc.
Pulse Protocol is a plug-and-play medical travel platform that helps doctors, clinics and hospitals manage and grow their cross-border patient business. It pairs patients with multilingual care coordinators and gives providers an end-to-end toolkit - patient matching, secure communications, payments, marketing and revenue analytics - built on decades of medical tourism experience and, in its earlier MedRepublic incarnation, a blockchain-backed vision of a decentralized, transparent global healthcare marketplace.
Robert Page
Robert Page is the CEO and founder of Pulse Protocol (formerly MedRepublic), a Los Angeles healthcare marketplace and B2B SaaS platform that helps clinics and facilitators run medical-travel businesses - matching patients to vetted providers, automating coordination, payments and marketing. A global-health operator since 2000, he previously built MedToGo International, co-authored three industry guidebooks, took MedRepublic into TechCrunch Disrupt's top 25 startups of 2016, and graduated from Amplify LA's accelerator. His through-line is unglamorous but stubborn: transparent pricing, quality control, and giving patients real options.
Alison Richards
Alison Richards is the CEO of Surest, a UnitedHealthcare company (formerly Bind) that builds a health plan with no deductibles and upfront prices people can see before they book care. A UnitedHealthcare veteran since 2012, she has turned the company's most contrarian benefits idea - let members shop for care the way they shop for everything else - into its fastest-growing employer plan.
Chris Severn
Chris Severn is the co-founder and CEO of Turquoise Health, a San Diego company building software to make healthcare pricing transparent and to simplify the way hospitals and insurers contract and pay each other. After a decade modeling hospital managed-care contracts and running machine learning for payment integrity, he started Turquoise in 2020 with engineer Adam Geitgey, pivoting into federal price-transparency rules just as they took effect. The company has aggregated price data from thousands of hospitals and, in March 2026, raised a $40 million Series C led by Oak HC/FT to become what Severn calls the operating system for healthcare contracts and payments. He also teaches improv comedy and has testified before Congress on price transparency.
Dilpreet Sahota
Dilpreet Sahota is the co-founder and CEO of Trek Health, a San Mateo-based, AI-powered platform that turns the federal price-transparency data dump into a weapon healthcare providers can use to benchmark and negotiate their payer contracts. Founded in January 2022, Trek Health landed its first paying customer two months later, crossed 100 customers by late 2024, and raised an $11M Series A led by Madrona in 2025. A Stanford and UC Berkeley graduate who cut his teeth at Health IQ and Big Health, Sahota built Trek to attack a quietly brutal problem: identical medical services can be reimbursed at rates that vary 300-500%, and the smaller players almost never know it.
Trek Health
Trek Health is a San Mateo-based healthtech company that turns federally mandated price-transparency data into negotiating leverage for hospitals and provider groups. Its AI-powered platform ingests, normalizes, and validates payer rate data from more than 120 commercial payers every quarter, then lets healthcare CFOs and contract teams benchmark their rates against the market, model negotiation scenarios, and identify revenue they're leaving on the table. Founded in 2022 by Dilpreet Sahota and Gopal Narayan, the company raised an $11M Series A led by Madrona in 2025 and serves 130+ provider customers.
Turquoise Health
Turquoise Health is a San Diego health-tech company building the operating system for healthcare contracts and payments. It turns the messy, hidden world of payer and provider pricing - machine-readable files, claims, contracts and Medicare benchmarks - into clear, auditable rates and AI-readable contracts, so that buying and paying for care could one day be as straightforward as any other transaction. More than 280 organizations, including major health systems, national payers, pharma companies and brokers, use the platform.
GoodRx
GoodRx is a Santa Monica-based digital healthcare platform that helps Americans find lower prices on prescription drugs. It aggregates real-time pricing and discounts from pharmacies nationwide so consumers can compare costs and access free coupons, then layers on telehealth visits, manufacturer savings programs, and tools for pharma and employers. Since 2011 it has helped tens of millions of people save an estimated $70+ billion on medications.