Health Insurance & Benefits

17 confirmed failures

Funding Burned

$993.0M

Median Lifespan

3 years

Dominant Failure

Reimbursement Dependency

47% of cases

Period

2012 — 2024

Failure Pattern Distribution

Couldn't get paid by insurance8 (47%)

Outspent by bigger competitors5 (29%)

Regulation moved faster than the company1 (6%)

Customer acquisition costs too high1 (6%)

Ran out of pivots before finding fit1 (6%)

Multi-stakeholder approval bottleneck1 (6%)

Curator's Note

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This section of the registry contains 17 healthcare Health Insurance & Benefits startups that shut down between 2012 and 2024, representing $993.0M in combined funding. The dominant failure pattern is Reimbursement Dependency (47% of cases). Competitive Displacement accounts for another 29%. 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 17 Health Insurance & Benefits failures in the corpus. Not your thesis.

KILLEDKill threshold 69%

Couldn't get paid by insurance

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

Precedents

Health Republic Insurance of New York (HC-0421) · 2015
Land of Lincoln Health (HC-0380) · 2016
CoOportunity Health (HC-0381) · 2015

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