Companies

Taiga

taigabilling.com

Taiga provides AI-native, end-to-end medical billing services for independent healthcare practices through existing EHRs.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-50
1 active role
Jobs checked 2h ago
Healthcare AIAI Agent / AutomationB2B SaaS

About

Taiga is an AI-native managed medical-billing partner for independent healthcare practices, handling coding review, claims, denial appeals, and patient billing through existing EHRs. It differentiates itself from software-only tools by operating the billing workflow end to end and appealing denials on the practice’s behalf.

Market

Taiga competes in U.S. medical billing and revenue-cycle management for independent healthcare practices. Its positioning is an AI-native managed billing partner rather than a self-service practice-management or EHR product: it integrates with the practice's existing EHR, handles coding through patient billing end to end, and appeals denials on the practice's behalf.

Target Customers

Taiga targets independent healthcare practices and physician offices, particularly practices that want to outsource revenue-cycle work rather than operate billing software with their own staff. The primary buyer is likely the physician-owner or practice operator seeking to reduce administrative burden, claim denials, and lost revenue.

At a Glance

Problem

Taiga solves the medical-billing burden facing independent healthcare practices. These practices must otherwise hire expensive billing staff, outsource to cumbersome billing companies, or leave doctors to manage billing after hours. Coding errors lead to rejected claims, denials accumulate without follow-up, and revenue leaks through the system. The pain is both administrative and financial: manual coding and review can delay claim submission by days, while small underpayments may be abandoned because recovering $50 costs more than the amount recovered.

The central use case is an independent doctor's office that wants clinicians focused on patient care while someone reliably handles the entire revenue cycle. Taiga targets the gap between expensive, labor-intensive in-house billing and generic software that still leaves the practice responsible for operating the workflow.

Product / Service

Taiga is a managed, AI-native medical-billing partner rather than a self-serve billing application. It connects to the practice's existing EHR, checks coverage and authorization before visits, reads visit and clinical-note data, drafts supported diagnosis and procedure codes, scrubs claims against payer rules, submits claims, manages denials and appeals, reconciles payments, and handles patient billing and statements. The treating physician can review and approve codes, while Taiga's automated workflow continues through payment and follow-up.

The delivery model is designed to remove operational work rather than add another system for staff to operate. Taiga says it supports major EHRs including Epic, Athena, eClinicalWorks, and DrChrono, can onboard a practice in about two weeks without an IT lift, and prices the managed service according to practice size, specialty, and claim volume rather than per software seat. The intended benefit is faster payment, fewer first-pass claim failures, more complete denial recovery, and real-time visibility into collections and payer performance.

Market

Taiga competes in U.S. medical billing and revenue-cycle management, specifically the AI-enabled managed-billing segment for independent practices. Its distinction is that Taiga operates the billing workflow on the practice's behalf, whereas platforms such as Tebra, AdvancedMD, athenahealth, DrChrono, and NextGen generally provide EHR, practice-management, or billing software that the practice operates, sometimes with managed-service options. Waystar and Adonis represent adjacent competitors in enterprise revenue-cycle infrastructure and AI-enabled RCM.

As of August 1, 2026, Taiga appears to be an early-stage company: Y Combinator lists it as P2026, active, with two employees, and describes the product as automating billing for doctor's offices. The company has a live product site and demo, but the reviewed public sources do not disclose customer counts, revenue, or conversion metrics, so Taiga cannot be confirmed as pre-revenue; the most supportable characterization is an early commercial-stage startup with traction publicly evidenced by its YC-backed launch and operating product, but without disclosed scale metrics.

Founders & Leadership

Nanda GuntupalliFounder
Co-Founder & CEO
Adam WaxFounder
Co-Founder

Funding History

2026-04
Seed$500K

Y Combinator

Recent News

2026-07-28product
Best AI medical billing software for independent practices

Taiga published an overview positioning itself as a managed AI-native billing partner rather than software that practices operate directly. The service is described as handling coding, claim submission, denial management, and patient billing.

2026-07-15
Healthcare Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

Y Combinator’s healthcare directory listed Taiga as a P2026, active company with two employees in San Francisco. The listing describes Taiga as automating medical billing for doctors’ offices.

2026-06-07
Taiga - The YC Tier List

The independent YC Tier List covered Taiga as a 2026 YC company that automates medical billing for doctors’ offices. This provides third-party launch-era visibility for the company, although the site states it is not affiliated with Y Combinator.

2026-05-08product
Taiga vs Tebra (Kareo): 2026 Comparison

Taiga’s comparison article stated that the platform is EHR-agnostic and integrates with Epic, Athena, eClinicalWorks, and other major systems. This is an integration capability claim, not a separately announced commercial partnership.

2026-04-30product
Taiga: AI-native medical billing for modern practices

Y Combinator’s Launch YC page introduced Taiga as an AI-native medical billing service for independent doctors’ offices. The launch description says it automates billing from coding through claim submission and denial management.

2026-02-07
Taiga

A Krain AI company profile described Taiga as an AI-native medical billing and revenue-cycle-management platform built for independent healthcare practices.

Active Roles

1
San Francisco/Sales/33d ago

Business Model

Taiga sells managed AI medical-billing services rather than self-serve software. Pricing is customized to practice size, specialty, and claim volume, with the service priced without separate software-seat bundles, transactional fees, or à-la-carte add-ons.

Products

Prior authorization and insurance-benefits checksAI-assisted coding review and claim scrubbingInsurance claim submissionDenial management and appealsPatient billing and statements

Customers

athenahealth (publicly displayed EMR/integration logo; customer status unconfirmed)eClinicalWorks (publicly displayed EMR/integration logo; customer status unconfirmed)NextGen Healthcare (publicly displayed EMR/integration logo; customer status unconfirmed)AdvancedMD (publicly displayed EMR/integration logo; customer status unconfirmed)Tebra (publicly displayed EMR/integration logo; customer status unconfirmed)Elation Health (publicly displayed EMR/integration logo; customer status unconfirmed)Greenway Health (publicly displayed EMR/integration logo; customer status unconfirmed)Practice Fusion (publicly displayed EMR/integration logo; customer status unconfirmed)Office Ally (publicly displayed EMR/integration logo; customer status unconfirmed)DrChrono (publicly displayed EMR/integration logo; customer status unconfirmed)Amazing Charts (publicly displayed EMR/integration logo; customer status unconfirmed)

Tech Stack

AI agents and AI-powered coding/documentation reviewPayer-rules engine for coding, eligibility, documentation, and claim validationEHR/EMR integrations, including Epic, athenahealth, DrChrono, and eClinicalWorksAutomated claims submission and denial-management workflows

Competitors

Tebra
AdvancedMD
athenahealth
DrChrono
Adonis