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Dedicated
to bringing price transparency to
US healthcare

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Our vision

Just one in six patients know the cost of care before treatment, while 20% of US provider spend goes to financial admin. No practice has time to check every visit's eligibility, every payment against its contracts, every denial worth appealing. So the money quietly leaks.

We founded Fuse to do that checking automatically. We take a data-driven approach to getting practices paid: analyzing payer rates alongside a practice's own claims and eligibility, inside the EMR and workflows teams already use, so every claim goes out clean and every payment matches the contract. That's the system we're building toward: patients who see clear costs before treatment, and providers paid what they're contractually owed.

who we are

We are a team of repeat entrepreneurs based in San Francisco and London.
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Sho Sugihara

Co-Founder, CEO
As a consultant at McKinsey, Sho worked on healthcare financial data analytics projects for some of the largest providers and payers in the world. Together with Oscar, he grew their last startup to multi million in revenue before starting Fuse.
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Oscar Wilsby

Co-Founder, CTO
Oscar is a former Postdoc researcher in computational physics with a PhD from Cambridge and a background in machine learning. At his last startup with Sho, he helped automate complex financial workflows drawing on over half a billion data points. Before startups, he worked on advanced research projects at McLaren F1 and Dyson.
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FAQs

How did you meet?

We met during the first week of college.  

Why are you solving this particular problem?

We're drawn to solving complex problems that impact many people. Our last company focused on financial inclusion, by helping consumers access affordable credit. When choosing our next idea, we decided we wanted to take on an even bigger project. US healthcare is one of the largest markets in the world, impacting hundreds of millions of people. It's also tremendously complex for patients to navigate and find affordable care. Recent advances in AI have the potential to change this for the better, and working on such an important problem excites us. And it's not only patients. The practices delivering care often can't tell whether insurers paid them correctly. Both problems come from the same missing data, which is what we're building Fuse to fix.

Favorite payer hold music?

Probably Aetna. Get in touch if you disagree.

Questions?

Reach out to us, we’re here to help.
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