Care Coordination & Transitions

27 confirmed failures

Funding Burned

$1.7B

Median Lifespan

8 years

Dominant Failure

Reimbursement Dependency

30% of cases

Period

2010 — 2024

Failure Pattern Distribution

Couldn't get paid by insurance8 (30%)

Couldn't connect to existing systems4 (15%)

Customer acquisition costs too high4 (15%)

Outspent by bigger competitors4 (15%)

Multi-stakeholder approval bottleneck4 (15%)

Product disrupted existing workflows1 (4%)

Regulation moved faster than the company1 (4%)

Sold through the wrong channel1 (4%)

Curator's Note

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This section of the registry contains 27 healthcare Care Coordination & Transitions startups that shut down between 2010 and 2024, representing $1.7B in combined funding. The dominant failure pattern is Reimbursement Dependency (30% of cases). Integration Hell accounts for another 15%. These entries were coded using the Gioia three-level qualitative methodology. Inter-rater reliability: 0.82 (strong agreement). This note is auto-generated and will be replaced by editorial analysis.

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Based on 26 Care Coordination & Transitions failures in the corpus. Not your thesis.

KILLEDKill threshold 62%

Couldn't get paid by insurance

Your revenue depends on payers who have not agreed to cover your product.

Precedents

Forward Health (HC-0012) · 2024
Health IQ (HC-0014) · 2023
Honor Technology (HC-0109) · 2024

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