Hello — we're CuraPatient

The referee
healthcare deserves.

Payers and providers have fought over claims for fifty years. We didn't pick a side — we picked the patient. Our job is simple to say and hard to do: every claim paid fully, the first time.

Our story Meet the team

A smiling clinician — the people our work ultimately serves

mission · use claims data to improve access to care

Mr. Claims at his desk, running the claims workbench — "Mr. Claims, reporting for duty."

The Othena platform — where CuraPatient began — Where it started — Othena, born in the pandemic.

Helping shape the future of healthcare — Where it's going — the future of paying for care.

01 Born in a crisis

We learned healthcare's hardest lesson at county scale.

CuraPatient began in the pandemic — our Othena platform helped Orange County schedule, route, and deliver COVID-19 vaccinations when every day counted. Millions of appointments. Real logistics. Real trust, earned under pressure.

What we took from it: healthcare doesn't fail for lack of care — it fails in the plumbing between the people who give care and the people who pay for it. So we aimed everything we'd learned at the most adversarial pipe in the system: the medical claim.

Today that same team runs $250B a year in claims across the VA, a top-5 U.S. integrated payer, and a 46-hospital health system — payer, provider, and federal simultaneously — with FedRAMP High authorization and a national VA ATO.

2020

Othena launches — vaccination logistics at county scale

<18mo^※

from first federal deployment to a national Authority to Operate

$250B^※

in annual claims now flowing through the genome

02 What we believe (and proposed to CMS)

Program integrity should be shared infrastructure — not a weapon.

№ 01

Objective broker

Surface underpayments alongside overpayments. One-sided analysis isn't integrity — it's collection.

№ 02

Glass-box AI

Per-claim, explainable factor analysis. A black-box risk score should never decide a payment.

№ 03

Humans hold the pen

AI assembles and cites the evidence. A person makes every determination. Every single one.

№ 04

Systems must learn

Each cycle has to measurably sharpen the next — static systems don't deserve the work.

№ 05

Education first

Distinguish willful abuse from honest confusion. Fix the cause before chasing the dollar.

№ 06

Prevention beats recovery

The best fraud prevention is accurate payment the first time. That's the whole point.

03 The humans

Small team.
Federal-grade ambition.

Defense. Intelligence. Biotech. Genomics. Public health. Capital. People who have run the largest payer in America, the largest state health agency, and military health operations — aimed, together, at healthcare’s plumbing. Say hi at hello@curapatient.com.

Long Nguyen

Co-founder & CEO

Leads strategy, the platform, and federal engagement. Authored CuraPatient's response to the CMS CRUSH RFI — the case that program integrity should be fair, cited, and human-led.

Dr. Ed Ellison

Advisor · ex-co-CEO, Permanente

Led physicians at America's largest integrated care system. Brings the clinical-operations lens: what payment looks like when it serves care, at nine-million-member scale.

Dr. Mark Ghaly

Advisor · ex-Secretary, CA HHS

Ran the largest state health agency in the country. Keeps the work pointed at the public mission: affordability, access, and Medicaid that holds.

Dr. S. Mukherjee

Co-founder · physician-scientist

Oncologist, researcher, and author. The reason "claims genomics" isn't just a metaphor — the scientific rigor behind reading two strands of evidence at once.

C. Rockefeller

Co-founder · capital & partnerships

Builds the relationships that turn deployments into infrastructure — capital, distribution, and the long view.

Wallace Smith

Colonel (ret.), U.S. Army

Military health operations. The discipline behind running federal-grade systems where failure isn't an option.

Sam Pham

VP of Engineering

Builds the engine — the genome, the agents, the 19µs harness. The reason the demos are production screenshots.

Cesar Gonzalez Cuellar

Head of DevOps & Security

Owns FedRAMP High, the 421 NIST controls, and the enclave. Security isn't a slide here — it's his pager.

also on payroll

They draft and reason. The humans above click Approve. That's the deal.

04 Investors

Built to be inevitable.

Contracted anchors that de-risk the curve. A learning loop competitors can't fork — because they don't operate where the money moves. Speed compounds into infrastructure.

Speed

Deploy, then compound

Live across federal and commercial environments; expansion compounds once governance clears.

Compounding

An unforkable loop

Every recovered dollar is a ground-truth label. You can't copy outcome-trained infrastructure.

Inevitability

Land once, scale everywhere

State and federal programs follow a land-once model — built to the standard CMS named.

The thesis & data room

Combined customer + pipeline footprint exceeds $250B in annual medical claims. Detailed financials shared with qualified investors under NDA.

Say hello

Come fix the plumbing with us.

Customer, partner, investor, or future teammate — if you believe paying for care should be as careful as giving it, we want to talk.

hello@curapatient.com See the genome

The refereehealthcare deserves.