{"id":97648,"title":"Beacon Health - AI Agents For Primary Care 🚀","tagline":"Putting value based care on autopilot","body":"Howdy howdy 👋\n\nWe’re Mark and Obinna, co-founders of Beacon Health.\n\n## **TL;DR**\n\nBeacon Health is on a mission to bring joy back to primary care. We build **AI agents that put their practice on autopilot** - starting with **value based care**.\n\nOur Al agents handle workflows like quality gap closures, risk adjustment, and patient outreach, **directly in the EHR**. We own these workflows from end to end\n\nWe just went live with an independent physician association supporting **40,000 patients**.\n\n**Ask:** We’re looking to connect with organizations operating under risk-based contracts - Independent Physician Associations, Accountable Care Organizations, Integrated Networks, and operators serious about value-based care (and direct-to-employer). 📩 [**mark@beaconhealth.ai**](mailto:mark@beaconhealth.ai)\n\n---\n\n## 👹 **The Problem**\n\nPrimary care is being pushed into value-based care without the [bandwidth](https://youtu.be/Qy3eV6o55oE) to support it.\n\nMost practices are juggling:\n\n* More than a dozen quality measures\n* Risk adjustment requirements\n* After-hours patient needs\n* Fragmented EHRs and disconnected vendor tools\n* everything else…\n\nThe result is predictable: Physician frustration and money left on the table in their value based contracts.\n\nValue-based care doesn’t fail because clinicians don’t care.\n\nIt fails because the economics and operations are broken.\n\n---\n\n## 🧩 **Our Solution**\n\nBeacon Health builds **AI agents for primary care**.\n\nOur Al agents handle workflows directly in the EHR. We own them from end to end - starting by putting their **value based care on autopilot**.\n\nToday, Beacon helps practices:\n\n* **Close quality gaps** by identifying patients who need action and executing outreach or teeing up a lab order automatically\n* **Capture risk adjustment codes accurately** by surfacing missed documentation and coding opportunities\n* **Support patients after hours** with triage and follow-up that doesn’t burn out staff\n\n  ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=97648\u0026key=user_uploads/775761/d115767e-07ba-44c6-9011-434969e9949e)\n\n\nOur agents work behind scenes, learning to use the EHR like a human would.\n\nWe meet the physicians where they’re at. No new portals. No dashboards.\n\nJust infrastructure that makes value-based care actually work.\n\nWe string these workflows together, owning them from end to end.\n\n![MRI Prior Auth](https://files.chroniclehq.com/5bfd4923-cb85-4c87-b776-9bb2bcc73161-BeaconHealthDashboard4_ezgif.com_video_to_gif_converter.gif)\n\n---\n\n## **🙏 Our Ask**\n\nWe’d love to talk if you:\n\n* Work with anyone with a risk based arrangement: **Independent primary care practices, Independent Physician Association’s (also known as Physician Organizations), Accountable Care Organizations, or Integrated Networks**\n* Are a **physician or operator** struggling with the administrative burden of value based care.\n* Advise, invest in, or lead teams building the future of primary care\n\n👉 [mark@beaconhealth.ai](mailto:mark**@beaconhealth.ai)\n\nIntros mean everything at this stage.\n\n---\n\n## **👬 The Team**\n\n[Mark](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-pothen/) (CEO) grew up in his mom’s primary care practice. He spent the last 6 months embedded into a primary care practice, owning ops and augmenting them with AI. He previously worked on product and GTM @ several early stage healthcare startups.\n\n[Obinna](https://www.linkedin.com/in/obinnaakahara/) (CTO) has built production-grade AI systems across AI, healthcare and enterprise software. He studied Physics at UT and is a proud Nigerian 🇳🇬\n\nWe’re building Beacon Health to **bring joy back to primary care.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=97648\u0026key=user_uploads/775761/87943253-2d66-4bd4-8b3a-967b4ab6f5ed)\n\n(In the practice with our first customer and CMO Karthik)","slug":"POy-beacon-health-ai-agents-for-primary-care","created_at":"2026-02-09T17:44:25.698Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T02:00:23.633Z","total_vote_count":24,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/POy-beacon-health-ai-agents-for-primary-care","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":31109,"name":"Beacon Health","slug":"beacon-health","url":"https://www.beaconhealth.ai/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6d74523afde78b3ac3597bb4170a5287e3f38c36.png","batch":"Winter 2026","industry":"Healthcare","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31109"}}