{"id":91135,"title":"Trapeze: AI-Scheduling Agents for Healthcare","tagline":"We help doctors acquire and schedule more patients","body":"Hey YC! We’re[ Betty](https://www.linkedin.com/in/betchang/) and[ Chris](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismychen/), and we’re building[ Trapeze](https://www.trapezehealth.com/).\n\n## **TL;DR**\n\nWe’re already helping hundreds of doctors acquire and schedule more patients with our AI voice agents that handle appointments over the phone (how 88% of patients still schedule today!).\n\nAsk: Do you know any eye care doctors or healthcare administrators struggling with their phone calls? Email [betty@trapezehealth.com](mailto:betty@trapezehealth.com). \n\n\\\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ExU-yIiIpg\n\n## **Problem**\n\n61% of patients miss out on essential appointments each year due to scheduling hassles, costing our healthcare system $280B annually. \n\nWe’re starting by tackling where 88% of patient appointments are scheduled and managed today: the phone.\n\nDoctors have a hair-on-fire problem managing their call centers and front desks. They’re expensive to run and have high turnover rates, which leads to long hold times and high abandonment rates — and ultimately lost patients. For example, our customers have the call center as a multi-million dollar annual expense, and are seeing 20%+ abandonment rates.\n\n## **Solution**\n\nTo solve this, we’re building AI voice agents that can be deployed to act as a doctor’s best scheduler with:\n\n* Our scheduling rules engine structuring doctor-specific rules across .pdfs, EHRs, paper, tribal knowledge\n* AI voice agents that handle intake, insurance verification, and slotting integrated with the EHR and telephony system\n* Admin portal and dashboard that provides visibility into patient call resolution gaps\n\n## **Team**\n\nThe Trapeze founding team has spent their careers solving patient and doctor problems:\n\n* [Betty](https://www.linkedin.com/in/betchang) was the first business hire at Capable Health, where she managed 100+ specialty clinics, built out their patient scheduling and engagement strategies, and closed their first $1M ARR.\n* [Chris](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismychen) was the 8th employee and founding engineer at Vanta and then tech lead at Medallion where he built and scaled back office automations for healthcare enterprises like Oak Street Health and VillageMD.\n\n  ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=91135\u0026key=user_uploads/269853/9a8e41dc-4c9a-4efa-8c4c-d3d478799322)\n\n\n## **Our Ask**\n\n* Follow us on[ LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/trapezehealth/) and[ TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@trapezehealth)!\n* Do you know any eye care doctors or healthcare administrators? Share our post!\n* Check us out at[ trapezehealth.com](http://trapezehealth.com)\n\n ","slug":"Nhv-trapeze-ai-scheduling-agents-for-healthcare","created_at":"2025-06-09T06:07:57.116Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:31:37.411Z","total_vote_count":42,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nhv-trapeze-ai-scheduling-agents-for-healthcare","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=91135\u0026key=user_uploads/269853/9a8e41dc-4c9a-4efa-8c4c-d3d478799322","company":{"id":30457,"name":"Trapeze","slug":"trapeze","url":"https://www.trapezehealth.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/899619e92df1f3c424bc3715e6b996ecc554d4a1.png","batch":"Spring 2025","industry":"Healthcare","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30457"}}