Avelis Health
ActiveWe audit medical claims for self-insured employers and health plans.
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๐๐ก๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ: I (Angel) have had three knee surgeries since my mid-teens and was billed more than $250K for care that should have cost a fraction of that. Fighting those inflated charges was so painful that we set out to build a consumer-facing AI agent to do it for others. In less than five months, we helped sixty patients erase or reduce over $300K from their medical bills. This inspired us to fix the problem farther upstream: stopping bad payments before the patient ever sees a bill. So we launched payment integrity, machine-learning models that audit every medical claim for self-insured employers and health plans in real time. ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ: โข Self-insured employers waste $60 B+ each year on claims that never should have been paid. Healthcare is the 2nd largest company expense after payroll. โข Manual audits are slow and partial: Reviewers focus only on high-dollar claims, letting millions more slip through unnoticed. โขย Existing audit software is static: Decades-old rule engines canโt keep pace with evolving codes, contracts, or billing tactics. โข Incentives are misaligned: Third-party administrators are paid to process claims, not to police them, so accuracy checks are minimal. ๐๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Our models audit medical claims before and after payments have been issued. We catch nuanced billing, coding, and contract errors to save 3-7% on annual claims spend. We work with self-insured employers and health plans. ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ฌ: Angel Onuoha (CEO) and Ahmad Shehu (CTO) have worked together for 4 years. Before Avelis Health they built Zuvy, a Lagos-based fintech company that provided invoice factoring to small businesses. Zuvy was acquired by The BAS Group in 2025.
Founders ยท 2
Angel is a 3x founder, Harvard alum, and previous PM @ Google. He is currently building AI agents to audit medical claims for self-insured employers.
Cofounder and CTO @ Avelis Ahmad is a 3x founder and full-stack builder with a deep appreciation for craft. He has shipped products from zero to one across the entire stack and led the teams behind them, driven by the conviction that things worth building are worth building well, and that consistent progress compounds into big outcomes.
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