{"id":87777,"title":"Harbera 🏥 AI healthcare provider credentialing","tagline":"Harbera helps hospitals and clinic groups keep their doctors credentialed and compliant.","body":"Veronica and Sophia here, we’re building Harbera. Harbera is AI software that helps healthcare organizations keep their providers - physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners - in-network with insurers and compliant.\n\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/75SKmVEMBvs\u003e\n\n## Without credentials doctors can’t treat patients\n\nCredentialing is the bureaucratic process of verifying a providers’ qualifications and contracting them with insurance plans. The 900+ insurance companies across the U.S. have different and ever-changing credentialing requirements, and providers need to be re-credentialed regularly. \n\nKeeping providers credentialed is critical. If a provider falls out-of-network, it can take months to get credentialed again. Health systems are often unaware that a provider has fallen out-of-network until claims start getting denied, leading to disrupted patient care and billions in lost revenue.\n\n## Monitoring credentialing is hard and gets harder at scale\n\nThere’s a lot that administrators need to keep track of: updates to insurance plan requirements (often mailed), license and certification expirations, malpractice sanctions, re-credentialing timelines, and more. Today, many back-office teams at hospitals and clinic groups use spreadsheets, filing cabinets, or even repurpose tools like Salesforce to track credentialing.\n\nHere’s why monitoring is challenging for organizations:\n\n* A telehealth company that accepts 10 insurance plans and works with 100 therapists across 30 states needs to track up to 30,000 statuses.\n* A dental group working with 200 dentists needs to track 8,000 statuses. (Dentists are enrolled in over 40 insurance plans on average.)\n\n## What we’re doing\n\nWe are making credentialing easy. Our software integrates with a healthcare organization’s existing systems to continuously monitor and proactively re-credential providers across states and insurance plans. We keep administrators in the loop so providers never fall out-of-network. We make onboarding new providers seamless with real-time document validation. We analyze credentialing trends to identify revenue growth opportunities and optimize staffing.\n\n## About us\n\nWe’re best friends from college. We studied and taught Computer Science together at Harvard. [Veronica](https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronicanutting/) was a software engineer at Stripe, and [Sophia](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophia--clark/) was a software engineer at House Rx, a specialty pharmacy software startup serving clinics across the country.\n\n## Ask\n\nDo you know health leaders that work in multi-state or multi-practice healthcare organizations, like dental support organizations (DSOs), telehealth companies, hospitals, or clinic groups? We’d love to meet them!\n\nEmail [founders@harbera.com](mailto:founders@harbera.com) to get in touch 🦡🧡\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=87777\u0026key=user_uploads/1991575/efe8f892-45ec-4380-b97e-d95c7791cb63)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=87777\u0026key=user_uploads/1991575/56e11f74-9f30-48e2-9872-d6dab1efd824)\n\n","slug":"Mpl-harbera-ai-healthcare-provider-credentialing","created_at":"2025-02-18T15:52:16.097Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:09:47.523Z","total_vote_count":30,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mpl-harbera-ai-healthcare-provider-credentialing","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=87777\u0026key=user_uploads/1991575/56e11f74-9f30-48e2-9872-d6dab1efd824","company":{"id":30265,"name":"Harbera","slug":"harbera","url":"https://harbera.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7e6ffdce0849e290e9af29bb1746cf9441830631.png","batch":"Winter 2025","industry":"Healthcare","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Health Tech","Healthcare","Healthcare IT","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30265"}}