Clarify Health

Clarify Health (legally Clarify Health Solutions) is a San Francisco-based healthcare analytics and value-based payments software company founded in 2015. Its current flagship offering, Clarify Meridian, is positioned for U.S. health systems and combines referral intelligence, quality insights, physician and patient engagement, and outcomes attribution in one platform, with the aim of identifying where referrals leave a network and quantifying the financial and clinical impact of recapturing them. The company states that 30-50% of specialty referrals are never completed and that 40-60% of referrals leave the network at large systems, representing what it describes as a $65-100 million annual opportunity and 60,000+ cases leaving the network per health system per year.

Meridian is built on the Clarify Atlas Platform, a data foundation the company describes as decade-built, comprising longitudinal records covering 300 million-plus patient lives across primary, specialty, post-acute and behavioral health settings, 5.6 trillion negotiated price transparency rates, 70+ fee-for-service and value-based payment models, and more than 20 billion machine-learning predictions used for quality prediction, cost estimation and care pathway recommendations. Earlier coverage describes a broader enterprise analytics cloud serving providers, health plans and life sciences companies, uniting government and commercial claims, EHR, prescription and socioeconomic data, and applying automated machine-learning model generation and benchmarking that the company says produces insights 30 times faster than traditional methods.

The company also markets modular products and services documented on its site, including Rates IQ, Growth IQ and Performance IQ suites, Practice IQ, Clarify Insights Service offerings (opportunity analysis, performance analytics, markets and referrals analytics), and CMS TEAM-related tooling.

Founding story

Founded in 2015 in San Francisco by Jean Drouin, M.D., Todd Gottula and Josh Loehrer. Gottula has said the founders started the company so healthcare organizations and patients could benefit from the "big data efficiencies of the banking and consumer industries," building what they called healthcare's system of intelligence; the concept centered on resolving the perceived tradeoff between financial sustainability and mission-driven patient care.

Business model

Enterprise B2B software and services sold to health systems, with historical sales also to payers and life sciences companies. Clarify describes delivering Meridian as a "tech-enabled outcomes partnership" in which it deploys the platform alongside dedicated Success Services teams embedded in health system operations.

Contracted software/analytics engagements with economics stated to be tied to measurable customer results (paid when the health system achieves outcomes), per the company's description of its partnership model.

Traction

Company-stated metrics include 60+ health system partners, $3.2 billion in documented customer ROI (an earlier third-party profile cited $2.6 billion), 300M+ patient lives and 20B+ AI predictions. In 2021 the company reported over 100% revenue growth and 75 large healthcare organizations as customers. Published case studies include Hoag Orthopedic Institute physician performance work and a referral-insights engagement described as producing $14M in revenue growth; NEJM Catalyst is cited as validating Practice IQ.

Latest developments

Clarify announced the acquisition of Loyal Health to create what it calls healthcare's first closed-loop network intelligence and patient activation platform, and named co-founder Todd Gottula CEO alongside a new leadership team (COO Eliza Adams, CRO Walker Hale, CCO John Barzydlo, CFO Christine Gu, CTO Justin Warner, Head of Product & Analytics Elisa Radice, CMO Dr. Sabrina Poon, Chief AI & Privacy Officer Erik Talvola, Head of Legal Ian Wood, Head of People and Culture Betty Rodriguez). A February 2026 Becker's Hospital Review article by CMO Sabrina Poon promotes Meridian as a tech-enabled outcomes solution for payment-contract optimization.