Glide Health

Name

Glide Health

Website

https://glidehealth.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management Software

NAICS

Pharmacy Benefit Management and Other Third Party Administration of Insurance and Pension Funds (524292)

SIC

Hospital & Medical Service Plans (6324)

akta.pro primary industry

Claims Management, Scrubbing & Clearinghouse (HLACACAB)

Keywords

• Revenue cycle management
• Claims processing software
• Healthcare revenue intelligence
• Predictive claims analytics
• Specialty practice billing

Headquarters

HQ city

Palo Alto

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Subscription/Practice Management Fees: Glide Health operates as a revenue cycle management solution for specialty practices, likely generating revenue through subscription-based licensing or per-practice fees for access to its predictive claims intelligence platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Glide Health is a revenue intelligence platform for specialty healthcare practices that uses predictive machine learning to detect billing errors before claims are submitted. It analyzes payer plans, procedures, ICD10 codes, modifiers, and historical denial data to predict claim errors in real time, integrates with existing practice systems (SAP, Lynx, EHRs via FHIR), and provides dashboards for financial, Net Cost Recovery, and claims performance. It is offered exclusively as part of McKesson's Specialty Practice Solutions portfolio to oncology, rheumatology, gastroenterology, retina, ophthalmology, and neurology practices.

Product overview

Glide Health is a single unified revenue intelligence platform offered by McKesson as part of its Technology Solutions for Specialty Practices portfolio. The core Glide product uses predictive machine learning to catch billing errors before claims submission, improving claims acceptance rates and accelerating reimbursement. It integrates with SAP and Lynx inventory management systems to provide a holistic dashboard view of financial, revenue cycle, and purchasing KPIs. The solution is specifically designed for specialty practices including oncology, rheumatology, gastroenterology, retina, and neurology.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Glide Health Revenue Intelligence Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• Claims submissions reimbursed up to 6 weeks faster than practices without predictive solution
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability3 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• SAPcoreTechnology or IntegrationGlide integrates with SAP systems to bring together historical and real-time financial and revenue cycle data into a detailed dashboard view, allowing practices to drill deep into financial, revenue cycle, and purchasing KPIs.
• Lynx Inventory Management SystemcoreTechnology or IntegrationGlide integrates with Lynx inventory management system (McKesson's web-based inventory management for specialty practices) to bring together purchasing and revenue cycle data, enabling holistic views of financial and operational performance.
• CoverMyMedscoreTechnology or IntegrationCoverMyMeds, a McKesson subsidiary, works alongside Glide Health in leveraging FHIR standards and EHR integrations to streamline claims processing and accelerate medication access for providers.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• FinThrive: End-to-end healthcare revenue cycle management platform (formerly nThrive) covering claims management, denial prevention, and revenue integrity analytics. Directly comparable in product positioning around denial reduction and reimbursement acceleration for specialty and complex provider environments.
• Availity: Healthcare claims and clinical network platform offering pre-submission claim editing, denial management, and payer-provider data exchange. Comparable to Glide because both focus on catching errors before submission and integrating claims intelligence with payer-side workflows.
• Waystar: Pure-play healthcare revenue cycle management platform offering claims management, denials management, and analytics to hospitals and specialty practices. Directly comparable as an AI-enabled RCM solution targeting similar payer-side complexity, though Waystar covers a broader mix of provider types.
• Infinx: Healthcare revenue cycle and prior authorization automation provider combining AI with human workflow to reduce denials and accelerate reimbursement. Comparable as an AI-led RCM vendor with overlapping product surface in claims error prediction and prior-authorization intelligence.
• Experian Health: Healthcare claims management, eligibility, and revenue cycle automation vendor serving providers and payers. Direct peer because it solves the same claims submission, denial management, and reimbursement acceleration problem Glide targets, with comparable ML/predictive analytics capabilities.
• Cotiviti: Payment integrity and revenue analytics vendor using ML to identify underpayments, overpayments, and billing errors. Comparable to Glide in applying predictive analytics to claim-level accuracy and payer-side adjudication, though Cotiviti's focus skews more toward payer clients.

Broad incumbents

• Optum (UnitedHealth Group): Broad healthcare services and technology arm of UnitedHealth Group with leading RCM and claims management capabilities, including Change Healthcare. Comparable as a large incumbent offering overlapping claims intelligence across a much broader portfolio, including payer-side operations.
• Oracle Health (formerly Cerner): Enterprise EHR and revenue cycle platform serving large hospital systems with embedded claims, denial, and revenue integrity modules. Comparable because it offers pre-submission claims error detection and RCM analytics natively within the EHR workflow, competing for the same provider budgets as Glide.
• Epic Systems: Dominant enterprise EHR for hospitals and large specialty groups with strong native revenue cycle capabilities and increasing AI-driven denial prevention. Comparable as a deep incumbent that competes for the same pre-submission claims accuracy use case across large US provider organizations.

Others

• CoverMyMeds (McKesson): McKesson-owned medication access and prior authorization platform that already partners with Glide Health on FHIR/EHR-integrated claims and medication workflows. Comparable because it sits adjacent in the McKesson portfolio, sharing customers, data, and channel infrastructure with Glide Health.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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