Abhinav Shashank on healthcare costs
From Innovaccer Acquires CaduceusHealth: Making Revenue Cycle Autonomous · · Innovaccer Inc.
“If you can't bring all of the components together and you create another silo, nothing gets solved. Again, it's driving cost down. How do we simplify this? That same mentality has not been brought to RCM yet. And so that's where you start driving cost down. And that's where we're taking the really complex case, figuring out how to identify it, starting to do that in a much smaller time scope, and being able to provide that service at a lower cost because the costs are driving the small practices out of business.”
On , Abhinav Shashank, Cofounder at Innovaccer, spoke about healthcare costs during Innovaccer Acquires CaduceusHealth: Making Revenue Cycle Autonomous on Innovaccer Inc..
About Abhinav Shashank
On May 20, 2026, Innovaccer announced its acquisition of CaduceusHealth, a move that Abhinav Shashank, co-founder and CEO of Innovaccer, described as expanding the company's Flow platform to deliver end-to-end revenue cycle operations for ambulatory care. Shashank stated that the acquisition aims to combine Innovaccer's AI infrastructure with CaduceusHealth's three decades of operational revenue cycle management expertise, addressing what he called a need to build AI agents that can work at scale without requiring human review at every step. Shashank said that revenue cycle is "the lifeblood of any provider practice or health system" and that the goal is to create a frictionless experience for providers while ensuring they get paid for the care they deliver. He noted that Innovaccer is focused on delivering a cash result within a 0 to 60 day window, aiming for a 90 to 95% settlement ratio. Shashank also highlighted that simplifying processes such as authorization—reducing it from 45 minutes to 45 seconds—can help drive down costs that are forcing small practices out of business.