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Building the safety net of the future
Pair Team is building a new kind of healthcare system across Medicaid, Medicare, and public assistance programs: one that recognizes that access to housing, nutritious food, and reliable transportation are just as critical to health as having the right medications or seeing a doctor. We run one of the largest medical groups for complex, low income patients and our next chapter is building a vertically integrated AI care manager to support any clinical, behavioral, or social need for everyone.
Pair Team combines a care team with AI to coordinate Medicaid/Medicare patients' medical, behavioral, and social needs. They partner with local organizations to provide whole-person care at no cost, supported by an AI health advocate and a clinical team.
Pair Team integrates a dedicated care team with an AI health advocate (Flora) to coordinate medical, behavioral health, and social support. The platform connects patients to housing, food, and transportation resources via partnerships with local providers, clinics, and community organizations. The AI aids scheduling, care coordination, referrals, and escalation to a nurse practitioner when needed, with human clinicians backing the AI. Programs include Medi-Cal Enhanced Care Management and Medicare ongoing support, with access to 100+ community partners and a CMS ACCESS model approach.
Who it’s for: Medicaid and Medicare patients needing integrated medical, behavioral health, and social supports; healthcare partners and community organizations facilitating care coordination.
Mention of partnership expansion, >100 local partners, appeared in TechCrunch coverage, published peer-reviewed research, ongoing enrollment and partner network growth
I am a technical entrepreneur, YC alumni, and co-founder of Pair Team (YC S19). I've spent the majority of my career in healthcare and had the honor of working with some exceptional people while building remote medical teams at Sling, opening primary care practices at Forward, designing medical devices at Spect, training machine learning models at Noxon, and researching pneumonia at UCSF. 50% thrill seeker, 40% dad jokes, 15% math.
After starting in emergency medicine in Boston, I moved to NYC to work in cardiac critical care at NewYork Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center. I then moved to San Francisco and worked at Kaiser Permanente and UCSF. After leaving bedside medicine, I was the first RN at Forward building out clinical protocols, workflows and the flagship clinic. After launching Forward, I was director of operations at Circle Medical and launched their flagship clinic before starting Pair Team.
Formerly “Arc”, “Sling Health (formerly Arc)”, “Sling Health”
Helping healthcare providers reduce administrative costs using AI
Turn manual healthcare process into automated workflows
