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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.
Ringmaster Wants to Retire the Spreadsheet From Self-Funded Health Care
The Boca Raton software company is betting that the messiest corner of employee benefits can be turned into one connected workflow - from the first RFP to the last reimbursement request.
Stephen Carrabba Keeps Asking the Expensive Question: Who Checked the Claim?
Before he audited healthcare claims, Stephen Carrabba built a better laboratory bench. His career has followed the same stubborn instinct ever since: take the system apart, find the costly flaw, and make the fix usable.
The $4 Claim Check That Could Save an Employer $30,000
ClaimInformatics wants self-funded employers to stop trusting the dashboard and inspect the bill. Its pitch is simple: review every claim, document every decision, and pay the referee for the work - not for how much it denies.
Healthcare Highways
Healthcare Highways is a Frisco, Texas-based health plan and provider network company that builds and operates curated, high-performance medical provider networks. Founded in 2010, it helps self-funded and level-funded employers, health systems, brokers, and third-party administrators lower healthcare costs and improve access by aligning the interests of providers, employers, and members - offering an alternative to the large national insurance carriers.
Yuzu Health
Yuzu Health is a New York-based healthtech company that rebuilds the administrative backbone of health insurance into a single, white-labeled system of record. Operating as a vertically integrated third-party administrator (TPA), Yuzu runs the behind-the-scenes engine for claims processing, payments, and member administration, letting insurers, brokers, and self-funded employers launch highly configurable plan designs - direct provider contracts, cash-pay options, and dynamic copays - without the heavy services burden of legacy administrators. Founded in 2022, the company works with customers across all 50 states and has processed more than $1 billion in claims payment volume.
Michael Wilson
Michael G. Wilson is the founder and CEO of Healthcare Highways, a Frisco, Texas company that builds high-performance provider networks for self-funded employer health plans. He was a five-time All-American gymnast at the University of Oklahoma, the 1979 NCAA floor exercise champion, and made the 1980 U.S. Olympic team that never competed because of the Moscow boycott. Over more than four decades in healthcare, he has founded or built PPO Oklahoma, Corporate Health Plans of America, Texas TrueChoice, Century Healthcare, and Healthcare Highways.
Arlo
Arlo is a New York-based health insurance startup rebuilding coverage for small and mid-sized businesses. It pairs AI-driven underwriting with value-based care and cost transparency to offer level-funded plans that make big-company benefits available to teams of roughly 10 to 150 employees, without the big-company admin. Founded in 2022 by former Palantir team lead Jan-Felix Schneider and ex-Finch engineering lead Karthik Bhaskara, Arlo raised a $4M seed round in 2025 led by Upfront Ventures and works with reinsurer Nationwide.