Decoda Health vs Optum

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Optum leads in AI visibility (93 vs 19)

Decoda Health

EmergingHealthcare

General

SF AI healthcare administration automating medical coding, billing, and claims for clinics with 30% cost savings and 20% fewer denials; YC S23 $4.5M competing with Waystar for revenue cycle management automation.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D19
Category Rank
#998 of 1167
AI Consensus
71%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
13
Perplexity
23
Gemini
18

About

Decoda Health is a San Francisco-based AI healthcare administration platform — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with $4.5 million raised from YC, Amino Capital, Bossa Nova Ventures, Cadenza Ventures, Graphene Ventures, and Orange Collective — providing medical clinics and healthcare providers with autonomous AI agents that handle medical coding, billing, claims submission, denial management, scheduling coordination, and patient payment collection, automating 80%+ of the repetitive administrative tasks that currently consume 30-40% of healthcare provider revenue in overhead costs. Founded in 2023 by Daniyal Afzal, James Oswald, and Kevin Cheng, Decoda's AI agents deliver 30% reduction in coding costs, 20% reduction in claim denials, and claims processing in seconds versus the days that manual coding and submission require.

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Optum

LeaderHealthcare

Health Services Tech

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) health services at $226B revenue combining Optum Health clinics, Optum Rx PBM for 65M+, and Change Healthcare analytics; largest US health services company competing with CVS/Caremark.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A93
Category Rank
#1 of 1
AI Consensus
63%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
95
Perplexity
99
Gemini
84

About

Optum is the health services subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) — one of the world's largest companies with $400 billion in annual revenue — operating Optum Health (care delivery: primary care clinics, urgent care, surgical centers), Optum Rx (pharmacy benefit management: managing drug benefits for 65+ million people), and Optum Insight (health data analytics, technology, and consulting for health plans, providers, and government). With $226 billion in annual revenue in its own right (making Optum larger than most standalone health companies), Optum generates approximately 50% of UnitedHealth Group's total revenue and is the largest health services company in the world.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

19
Overall Score
93
#998
Category Rank
#1
71
AI Consensus
63
stable
Trend
stable
13
ChatGPT
95
23
Perplexity
99
18
Gemini
84
19
Claude
95
11
Grok
99

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