Garner Health

Garner Health, founded in 2019, is a data-driven healthcare company that analyses medical claims data to identify high-performing doctors and steer patients towards better care. The firm maintains what it describes as the largest medical claims database in the United States, covering more than 60 billion medical records and 320 million patients. Its analytics are used to measure provider quality, drawing on evidence about which physicians diagnose more accurately and achieve superior patient outcomes.

The company's principal product, the Garner provider quality and navigation platform, guides employees towards top-performing clinicians and is used by more than 700 organisations, ranging from mid-market employers to Fortune 50 companies. A companion programme reimburses employees' out-of-pocket medical costs when they select high-performing doctors, aligning financial incentives with quality of care. The stated aim is to reduce employer healthcare spending while improving outcomes.

Technical work spans healthcare data analytics, medical claims data analysis, provider quality measurement, data strategy and predictive and outcomes analytics. The company was founded by Nick Reber, previously a member of the Oscar Health leadership team focused on analytics and data strategy. Its founding mission is to correct misaligned incentives in the healthcare economy, so that physicians benefit from practising excellent medicine rather than from performing excessive procedures. Operations are based in the United States.