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Castlight Health learned that a price tag needs a person
It began by showing employees what healthcare would cost. Its journey into benefits, human advocacy, primary care, and AI reveals how much work lies between knowing the price and getting the care.
Vālenz Health and the expensive art of being ignored
A healthcare tool can show people where to save money. Vālenz Health is betting that reminders, rewards and a connection to the final bill can persuade them to act.
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.
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.
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.