Lifers with Christina Farr How money really flows in healthcare with Claimable CEO Warris Bokhari & Anomaly CEO Mike Desjadon
Dec 16, 2025
Mike Desjadon, CEO of Anomaly Health — RCM innovator focused on provider-side tooling. Warris Bokhari, CEO of Claimable — patient-advocate automating insurance appeals and suing bad payer practices. They unpack denial data opacity, automated appeals versus insurer bots, the adversarial payer-provider dynamics, and how startups and venture timelines clash with entrenched healthcare interests.
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From Corporate To Mission‑Driven Startup
- Warris left corporate roles after craving mission‑driven startup work and outcome focus.
- He led a JAMA‑published asthma project at Anthem that required relentless internal advocacy.
Payment Model Is Fundamentally Broken
- The current U.S. payment model fails patients, providers, and insurers by design and needs systemic change.
- Claimable automates patient appeals to bridge access gaps while broader payment reform is figured out.
Denial Data Is Hidden By Insurers
- Accurate denial statistics are opaque because only insurers hold comprehensive data and rarely share it.
- Claimable plans to publish robust statistics once its dataset is large enough for statistical validity.
