Raising Health

Scaling Medicaid Innovation with Afia Asamoah, Rajaie Batniji, and Sanjay Basu

Vineeta Agarwala, Afia Asamoah, Sanjay Basu, Rajaie Batniji, Kris Tatiossian, and Olivia Webb

Posted January 14, 2025

Rajaie Batniji, MD, PhD, Afia Asamoah, JD, and Sanjay Basu, MD, PhD, cofounders of Waymark, join Vineeta Agarwala, MD, PhD, a16z Bio + Health general partner, to discuss their transformative approach to Medicaid care delivery. This episode dives into their rising risk signal prediction framework, where cutting-edge machine learning predicts patient needs and enables community-based care teams to reduce preventable ER visits and improve health outcomes at scale.

The team recently published their real-world results—including a 23% reduction in unnecessary acute care—in the New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst.

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