{"id":436411,"date":"2026-05-07T06:29:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436411\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:29:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:29:28","slug":"2026-time100-most-influential-companies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436411\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 TIME100 Most Influential Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Waystar is betting that agentic AI can take billions of dollars of friction\u2014and plenty of patient frustration\u2014out of healthcare payments. The company&#8217;s cloud platform, AltitudeAI, sits between providers and insurers, verifying coverage, and automating prior authorizations and claims. Waystar&#8217;s network reaches more than 1 million providers and roughly 60% of the U.S. patient population, processing more than 7.5 billion payment transactions annually, or some $2.4 trillion in gross claim charges. Since launching AltitudeAI in January 2025, Waystar says the platform\u00a0 has prevented more than $15 billion in claims from being denied by flagging coding and coverage errors before submission, using patterns drawn from its vast payment network. \u201cWe\u2019re champions for providers and patients as they interact with insurance companies, and we bring fairness to that whole exchange,\u201d says CEO Matt Hawkins. His bigger ambition: software that can manage the full life cycle of a medical claim\u2014from prior authorization through appeals\u2014with minimal human involvement. \u201cWe\u2019re building a network that acts continuously for providers and patients, that learns from every single payment outcome and delivers meaningful financial results with minimal intervention,\u201d says Hawkins. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waystar is betting that agentic AI can take billions of dollars of friction\u2014and plenty of patient frustration\u2014out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[9810,103,397,396,61,60,28976,184178],"class_list":["post-436411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-franchise","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-list","tag-time100-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}