Tanay Tandon
Co-Founder & CEO, Commure · 1 appearance on the record.
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Tanay Tandon co-founded Athelas, an FDA-cleared blood diagnostics startup that later merged with Commure to build an AI-powered healthcare operating system. He serves as Chief Executive Officer of the combined company, which processes tens of billions of dollars in annual claims.
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Tandon: US antitrust targeting Google and Facebook ignores healthcare monopolies
“The fact that they're coming after like Facebook and Google makes no sense. Like it's so easy to switch between Google and some other search engine if you want. It's almost impossible to change the hospital that you visit because it is quite literally a region…”
Tandon: Healthcare systems must adopt AI or lose their staff
“And now it's just, there's no option. You either adopt AI or you lose your physicians, you lose your nurses, you lose your admin staff.”
Tandon: Healthcare's core bottleneck is administrative overhead, not clinical tools
“The clinicians had the tools they needed for the average patient to get the job done. The real problem was administrative. It was in how they ran their telehealth operations and how did, and how they did their billing and how they, you know, fought insurance c…”
Tandon: AI agents will make clean APIs obsolete by processing unstructured data
“Number two is I think the concept of agents where you don't really need A clean API per se. You can make do with unstructured data and take inputs and shoot out outputs that are processable, human readable, but also machine readable. And that to me is going to…”
Tandon: Commure is not a success unless it reaches $100B valuation
“If you think about the scale of problem that we're trying to solve in healthcare we're, I wouldn't consider it a success in, we really wouldn't have penetrated much of healthcare at all if we weren't a hundred billion dollar company.”
Tandon: People Addicted to Pain Make the Best Startup Leaders
“When you find someone who actually is addicted to pain, they tend to perform really well at startups and they tend to make great leaders. They tend to grow very quickly. And our thesis has always been find these people and make them celebrities in the company.”
Tandon: AI and LLMs will transform healthcare labor by late 2020s
“The story of the late 20 twenties in healthcare is definitely one of language models and AI replacing standard labor or augmenting that labor to make it much more efficient.”
Tandon: US healthcare creates $500B in annual administrative bloat
“And then if you just look at what we call work tax or admin bloat and admin expense, probably about half a trillion dollars. So there's like five hundred billion dollars worth of exhaust that the system creates.”
Tandon: Healthcare transaction costs run at 15% to 20%
“That, that system runs at, you know, two to three percent cost of transact. Healthcare probably runs at 15 to 20% cost of transact. So there's so much room to make it more efficient and look and feel more like a credit card swipe.”
Tandon: Early healthcare startups without distribution will lose to legacy players
“My recommendation to the early stage founders is, unless you have that distribution advantage, healthcare is still actually a very hard market to get into, and you're better off either working with a larger company or distributing through a larger company or c…”
Tandon: Point Solutions Cannot Win the Largest US Healthcare Customers
“The issue in some ways, though, is if you're a one trick pony, you're not going to get the biggest customers in the country. The biggest customers and most important customers in the country want a platform partner.”
Tandon: Commure Powers 7% of All US Healthcare Visits
“So for Ambien and charge entry and charge capture, the, it's about seven percent of all healthcare visits in the US run on our platform.”
Tandon: Agentic AI resolves healthcare claim denials in seconds
“I think the thing that many health systems haven't realized is just how we gentick some of these models have gotten in terms of solving tasks end to end, getting a claim back, reading the contents, reading the patient's demographic file and their chart history…”
Tandon: Purely AI-Driven Clinical Care Is the Wrong Approach
“And that's why, you know, purely AI driven care, in my opinion, is not the right approach. You need to have a human in the loop. And that's what physicians are trained for. They're trained for accountability.”
Tandon: 85% of Commure's Claims Are Processed Entirely Autonomously by AI
“And for us, 85% of our claims don't touch a human. They're entirely autonomous. And everything from the packaging of the claim, the submission, the coding of the claim, and then the back and forth with the pair is done by a model, which is very exciting.”
Tandon: HCA cited AI appointment gains and reduced denials on earnings calls
“And HCA talked about this in their earnings call. I think a couple of our other customers have now talked about this on earnings calls as well. They've seen the productivity lift very clearly in terms of the number of appointments that a physician can do. And …”
Tandon: Medical robotics and devices are monopoly-run and ripe for disruption
“When it comes to the provider stack itself, the physical parts of the provider stack, the medical devices, the robotics, the surgery instrumentation, it's an entire part of the economy that is run basically by four or five companies that operate again as monop…”
Tandon: Strong Natural Writers Excel in Chaotic Startup Environments
“People that are good natural writers do well because in a chaotic environment, you need to be able to distill your thoughts, present them in written form, And then really disseminate that across the org as quickly as possible.”
Tandon: Epic holds only 30% to 40% of the EMR market
“And so Epic is a chunk of the market, probably like thirties to 40%, but it's still not a majority of the market.”
Tandon: US healthcare software spending is $70B to $80B
“What is clear is that in aggregate, the spending on software and software-related expenses is probably, like, somewhere between, like, 70 to eighty billion bucks.”
Tandon: Commure Generates Hundreds of Millions in Annual Revenue
“We're a company that's doing hundreds of millions of dollars. It's almost unheard of to be doing hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue”
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company | Sep 3, 2026 | 51m |