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The Surgeons Who Taught Software to Argue With Insurance Companies
Prior authorization is the paperwork chokepoint that delays surgeries and burns out staff. ClinicalBox built an AI that does the arguing - reading the chart, matching the policy, and building the case in about a minute.
Develop Health
Develop Health is a San Francisco Bay Area healthtech company building AI that removes the paperwork between a doctor writing a prescription and a patient actually getting it. Its EHR-integrated platform uses more than a dozen purpose-built large language model pipelines to verify insurance coverage in real time, assemble and submit the correct prior authorization package, track status, and draft appeals for denials - work that normally consumes hours of a care team's day. Founded in 2022 by former Canvas Medical and Rupa Health operators, the company raised a $14.3M Series A in August 2025 and says it cuts medication-access admin work by roughly 83% while supporting hundreds of thousands of patients a month.