Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Stedi is a healthcare clearinghouse that processes eligibility checks, insurance claims, and payment transactions between providers and payers. In this conversation, Zach explains how decades-old EDI standards became a surprisingly powerful foundation for modern, AI-driven healthcare workflows, and why this layer now looks more like a “compiler for healthcare” than a legacy system.
They cover:
• How healthcare claims and eligibility checks actually work under the hood
• Why X12 EDI became the shared language of U.S. healthcare
• How AI agents are being built on top of Stedi to resolve claims, denials, and front-office workflows
• Parallels to platforms like Plaid, and where healthcare is fundamentally more complex
• How Stedi rapidly launched a full clearinghouse in response to a major industry outage
• Lessons in building platforms that can ship fast on top of years of accumulated infrastructure
A deep look at how modern platforms, AI, and resilient infrastructure are reshaping one of the most complex industries in the world.
Stedi is a healthcare clearinghouse that processes eligibility checks, insurance claims, and payment transactions between providers and payers. In this conversation, Zach explains how decades-old EDI standards became a surprisingly powerful foundation for modern, AI-driven healthcare workflows, and why this layer now looks more like a “compiler for healthcare” than a legacy system.
They cover:
• How healthcare claims and eligibility checks actually work under the hood
• Why X12 EDI became the shared language of U.S. healthcare
• How AI agents are being built on top of Stedi to resolve claims, denials, and front-office workflows
• Parallels to platforms like Plaid, and where healthcare is fundamentally more complex
• How Stedi rapidly launched a full clearinghouse in response to a major industry outage
• Lessons in building platforms that can ship fast on top of years of accumulated infrastructure
A deep look at how modern platforms, AI, and resilient infrastructure are reshaping one of the most complex industries in the world.
