Yuzu Health

Yuzu Health is a vertically integrated, tech-enabled third-party administrator that rebuilds the infrastructure underlying health plan administration. Founded in 2022 and based in New York City, the company handles claims processing, billing, eligibility verification and plan management for self-funded employers. Its technical work spans health insurance infrastructure, claims and billing systems, eligibility verification, plan management software and platform engineering.

The company's product, the Yuzu Health platform, provides modern infrastructure for running health insurance plans. The stated aim is to make creating and managing a custom health plan as straightforward as building a storefront on Shopify. Rather than layering software on top of legacy systems, Yuzu Health operates as a vertically integrated administrator, owning both the operational and technical stack.

Yuzu Health has raised $40 million in total funding, including a $35 million Series A round. It works across the health insurance, healthcare and employee benefits verticals, with a focus on self-funded employer health plans.

The company was founded out of frustration with legacy systems in health plan administration. It describes a mission to fix broken health plan infrastructure, an emphasis on transparency over black boxes of complexity, and an ambition to build what it calls "the new foundations of healthcare".