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Arctic Health

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Arctic Health combines credentialing specialists and AI to enroll providers and manage payer contracting for healthcare organizations.

HQNew York City, New York, United States
Employees1-50
Jobs checked 18h ago
Healthcare AIAI Agent / AutomationB2B SaaS

About

Arctic Health provides AI-enabled credentialing, payer enrollment, and contracting for telehealth providers, clinics, group practices, RCM companies, and CVOs. It differentiates through an end-to-end service combining credentialing specialists with browser-automation agents that manage submissions, follow-ups, and compliance across payer portals.

Market

Arctic Health competes in healthcare provider credentialing, payer enrollment, and payer-contracting services and software. It positions itself as an AI-native, end-to-end provider that combines credentialing specialists with automation, handling the workflow from payer contracting and data validation through submissions, portal monitoring, and compliance. Its differentiation is the combination of expert-reviewed service delivery, browser-based AI agents operating across many payer portals, and API/white-label support for organizations that may be underserved by fragmented tools or expensive enterprise platforms.

Target Customers

Healthcare organizations that manage provider credentialing at scale, including medical clinics, group practices, health systems, telehealth companies, MSOs, RCM companies, and CVOs. The offering spans single clinics through multi-state organizations, with particular relevance to operators seeking outsourced or integrated credentialing and payer-enrollment workflows.

At a Glance

Problem

Healthcare organizations lose revenue when providers are delayed in becoming credentialed and in-network with payers. Credentialing requires extensive documentation, payer submissions, and repeated follow-ups, creating an administrative burden that distracts organizations from patient care. The clearest use case is helping clinics, hospitals, revenue-cycle-management companies, and telehealth groups rapidly move providers through payer credentialing so they can bill in-network sooner.

Product / Service

Arctic Health provides an AI-native, service-led credentialing and contracting solution. It handles documentation, payer submissions, and follow-ups on behalf of healthcare organizations, with specialist-reviewed applications and access to a real expert. The company says it can submit to payers within two days, supports more than 300 insurance networks across all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and aims to reduce credentialing delays while allowing providers to focus on patients.

Market

Arctic Health competes in healthcare provider credentialing and contracting, positioning itself as an AI-native alternative to the manual administrative processes used by healthcare organizations. The available research does not identify a specific direct competitor, but the company’s target customers include clinics, hospitals, RCM companies, and telehealth groups.

The company appears to be at an early commercial stage. It was founded in 2025 and has four employees, reports $500,000 in funding, and lists Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator, and Fortitude Ventures as backers. The available profile does not disclose a current revenue figure, so it is not possible to characterize the company definitively as pre-revenue from the available evidence.

Founders & Leadership

Sam SlezekFounder
CEO
Michael ClarkFounder
COO
Raghav MehrishFounder
CTO

Funding History

2026-07
Seed$500K

Fortitude Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator

Recent News

2026-07-20
Arctic Health returns to NYC and begins New York credentialing content series

Arctic Health announced that it was back in New York City and would publish a series on New York-specific credentialing nuances by specialty.

2026-07-15
Neurology Credentialing in New York: A Complete Guide for Practice Owners (2026)

Arctic Health published a guide covering New York payer rules, Medicaid OPRA enrollment, IDTF testing, and stroke-center requirements.

2026-07-15funding
Arctic Health listed among Y Combinator’s 2026 healthcare startups

Y Combinator’s healthcare directory lists Arctic Health as an active P2026 company with four employees, describing its AI-native credentialing and contracting platform.

2026-07-05
The DME Supplier's Guide to Commercial Insurance Enrollment

Arctic Health published a guide explaining that commercial-payer enrollment lacks a single application, centralized portal, or standard timeline, and that understanding the process can reduce delays.

2026-07-02
Arctic Health - The YC Tier List

A third-party YC-focused profile highlighted Arctic Health’s work automating the end-to-end credentialing and contracting workflow for healthcare organizations.

2026-05-28
Y Combinator Launches of the Week

Menlo Times covered Arctic Health as one of Y Combinator’s launches, describing the company as building AI-native credentialing and contracting for healthcare organizations.

2026-05-26product
Arctic Health, full-service healthcare credentialing and contracting platform

Arctic Health launched through Y Combinator with a service that combines credentialing experts and AI to manage payer contracts, provider enrollments, submissions, follow-ups, and ongoing compliance monitoring.

2026-05-23funding
Arctic Health announces backing from Y Combinator (P26)

Arctic Health stated that it was backed by Y Combinator’s Spring 2026 program, marking the company’s accelerator-backed financing milestone.

2026-04-13product
Arctic Health promotes API integration and custom credentialing workflows

Arctic Health’s service offering includes API integration with existing systems, organization-specific onboarding workflows, AI-powered document processing, and white-label credentialing for scaled operators.

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Business Model

Arctic Health sells managed credentialing, payer enrollment, and contracting services to healthcare organizations, including standard, custom, API-integrated, and white-label offerings. Its site advertises no setup fees but does not disclose recurring or per-provider pricing, so revenue appears to come primarily from service contracts rather than onboarding charges.

Products

Provider credentialing and enrollmentPayer enrollment and contractingOngoing re-credentialing, compliance monitoring, appeals, and revalidationAPI-integrated and white-label credentialing for telehealth platforms, RCM companies, and CVOs

Tech Stack

AI agentsBrowser automation across payer portalsAI-powered document extraction, verification, and error detectionAPI integrations

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