Reinventing Healthcare Billing With AI

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Krishang Todi discussing his journey in building a startup focused on healthcare billing and insurance claim denials using AI.

Interview with Krishang Todi, CEO of Aegis(YC X25) In this episode, we sat down with Krishang, a founder Daniel met through Y Combinator, to talk about what it actually looks like to build a startup in the trenches. We got into his journey from Kolkata to Carnegie Mellon to Silicon Valley, why he chose entrepreneurship over a more traditional path, and how a real healthcare pain point led his team to build a company focused on insurance claim denials. What stood out to me is how much conviction and intuition matter. A lot of great founders do not start with perfect certainty. They start with a strong belief about how the future is going to change, then they go build toward it. Krishang and his team are building in one of the hardest industries out there, healthcare. Their vision is ambitious. They want to use AI agents to help hospitals and providers understand, appeal, and prevent denied claims, while reducing the amount of manual work that dominates revenue cycle management today. We also talked about Y Combinator's shorter batch model, the psychology of leaving school to go all in, what is happening right now with AI in healthcare, why voice agents are hitting limits, and how…

People in this episode

Guest: Krishang Todi

Topics covered

• healthcare billing
• AI in healthcare
• insurance claim denials
• entrepreneurship
• Y Combinator
• revenue cycle management

Keywords

• healthcare
• AI
• insurance claims
• entrepreneurship
• Y Combinator
• startups
• revenue cycle management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Aegis, Y Combinator

Places: Kolkata, Carnegie Mellon, Silicon Valley

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