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The care team is our user. The patient is our purpose

Founded by practicing clinicians in Providence, Rhode Island, ITO Health is a Public Benefit Company that turns complex eligibility policy into auditable, repeatable actions so the patients who qualify for care can actually get it.

Founded 2024Providence, RIPublic Benefit Corporation

“Every minute a care team spends chasing down paperwork is a minute not spent with a patient. We built ITO Health to give those minutes back.”

Rahul Vanjani, MDCEO and co-founder

Our Mission

We build tools for healthcare workers, care providers of all kinds, to close the gap between medical care and social needs. Because real health requires both.

Our software helps care teams navigate the complexity of eligibility and coverage so the system works the way it's supposed to, for everyone, regardless of economic standing.

Today we work with health systems, health centers and community organizations in five states. We're tired of “healthcare is broken” being said with a shrug. We're here to do something about it.

Our tools are rule-based and auditable, built to turn complex policy into repeatable, defensible action. No black boxes. No guesswork. Just human-centered software that does what it says it does.

Built by clinicians who couldn't look away

ITO Health was founded in 2024 after its clinical team spent years watching the same pattern repeat: patients who qualified for Medicaid, SNAP, and housing support couldn't access those programs. Not because of eligibility, but because the administrative infrastructure around them kept failing.

Notices went to old addresses. Recertification deadlines were missed. Workers juggled dozens of disconnected tools and still fell behind. The system was producing coverage loss as a feature, not a bug.

The founders, practicing physicians and healthcare professionals, decided to build the tools that should have already existed: software that turns eligibility rules into clear, repeatable steps at the point of care, and follows each person through.

Our flagship
MediKey
Medicaid enrollment and renewal that helps people keep their coverage, run by your team or ours.
Care coordination
HealthBase
Benefit applications completed with people and followed through, run by your team or ours.
Benefits screener
HealthEligible
Free at healtheligible.org in Rhode Island, for SNAP, Medicaid, child care help and cash assistance.
What ITO Means

The name is the method

ITO isn't just a name. It's the framework that shapes how we approach every problem in healthcare access. Information, Tools, Outcomes. In that order, on purpose.

Information

Policy is complex. We make it usable. By translating eligibility rules, benefits criteria, and local resources into structured knowledge your team can actually act on.

Tools

Knowledge alone doesn't help people. We build software that puts the right information in the right hands so care workers, navigators, and case managers can move from screening to resolution without delay.

Outcomes

We don't measure success by logins or clicks. We measure it by needs resolved, coverage retained, and people connected to support that changes their lives.

What being a Public Benefit Corporation actually means

A PBC has a legal obligation to consider the interests of patients and communities alongside shareholder value. It's not marketing. It's in our articles of incorporation.

Dual mandate

We're required to balance financial returns with our public benefit purpose. Not just permitted to, required.

Mission accountability

Our board is legally obligated to consider impact on healthcare access. Not just quarterly performance metrics.

Patient-first by charter

A decision that harms patient access to care isn't just bad ethics. It's a violation of our governing documents.

Team

Practitioners who became builders

ITO Health was founded, and is led, by people who have worked inside the systems they're trying to fix.

Rahul Vanjani MD, Chief Executive Officer at ITO Health

Rahul Vanjani

Chief Executive Officer

MD

A practicing physician who built ITO Health after watching patients lose coverage to procedural failures that had nothing to do with their eligibility. Rahul leads the company with a clinical framework: the same rigor that governs medical decisions should govern eligibility decisions. He drives product vision, partnerships, and the company's mission as a Public Benefit Corporation.

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David Melançon Healthcare Operations, Chief Operating & Growth Officer at ITO Health

David Melançon

Chief Operating & Growth Officer

Healthcare Operations

David brings operational depth across healthcare systems, government partnerships, and growth strategy. He is responsible for the organizational infrastructure that lets ITO Health scale, from customer success and deployment to the health system relationships that bring the platform to the populations who need it most.

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Margaret Thomas Product & Design, Head of Product at ITO Health

Margaret Thomas

Head of Product

Product & Design

A designer-turned-product leader with 20+ years of human-centered design practice across physical product, consumer platforms, and civic technology. Margaret leads ITO Health's product function end-to-end, spanning UX research, product management, and product design, with a focus on making complex policy legible and tools usable for the people who depend on them most.

Eric Bai MD, Head of Technology at ITO Health

Eric Bai

Head of Technology

MD

A physician-engineer who leads the design system and technical architecture underlying ITO Health's deterministic AI approach. Eric designed the rules engine that powers HealthEligible's benefits screening and oversees the platform's interoperability, security, and scalability. His conviction: clinical-grade software requires clinical-grade transparency.

James Lawless LMHC, Head of Network at ITO Health

James Lawless

Head of Network

LMHC

A Licensed Mental Health Counselor with deep roots in community health and social services, James leads ITO Health's network of care organizations and CHW programs. He ensures the platform reflects the workflows and realities of the frontline staff who use it, not just the institutions that deploy it.

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How We Build

The commitments that shape every product decision

These aren't values displayed in the office. They're the constraints we argue from when tradeoffs get hard.

Policy is the product

Eligibility rules are not inputs to our software. They are the software. Every rule change in Medicaid, SNAP, or state programs should be a policy update, not a software project.

Auditable or it doesn't count

An eligibility determination is only trustworthy if you can trace every decision back to the exact policy it applied. We don't let AI guess at eligibility. Every outcome can be traced, checked and defended.

Design for the frontline worker, not the administrator

The people who use our tools are CHWs and eligibility specialists with full caseloads. We optimize for them, not for the reporting dashboards executives see once a quarter.

Coverage loss is an engineering problem

Most Medicaid disenrollment happens because of process failures, not eligibility failures. Missed notices. Unreachable patients. These are solvable with the right tools. That's why we build them.

Results

What the work has done so far

HealthBase, in a state benefits program

88%
of applications approved, against a 30% national average
13,412
applications completed
10×
benefits uptake

MediKey pilot

94%
renewal completion rate
2.3×
more exempt patients found than manual review
60%
less staff time on renewal outreach

Where we work

Started in Providence. Now in five states

Rhode Island is where we started, and where our first partners helped shape our tools. Today we work with health systems, health centers and community organizations across five states.

States

  • Rhode Island
  • Michigan
  • Louisiana
  • Maine
  • Pennsylvania

Customers

  • Hegira HealthMichigan
  • St. ThomasLouisiana

Our partners in Rhode Island

Right Now

H.R. 1 is the policy moment we built for

The 2025 budget reconciliation law introduces work requirements and six-month recertification cycles for Medicaid expansion enrollees. Implementation is required by January 1, 2027.

Health systems that don't build operational readiness now will face the same dynamics as the 2023 unwinding. Patients losing coverage for procedural reasons, uncompensated care rising, and continuity of treatment disrupted.

MediKey, our flagship, is our direct response. It helps people keep their Medicaid coverage, so health systems can prevent procedural disenrollment before the deadline.

What MediKey automates
Recertification date tracking across your full Medicaid patient population
Text-based and voice outreach before deadlines are missed, not paper notices
Work requirement exemption flagging using ICD-10 codes in your EMR
Population risk scoring to prioritize outreach for highest-risk patients
End-to-end tracking from outreach through determination

View MediKey product page
Get in Touch

Let's talk about keeping your patients covered

Whether you're a health system preparing for H.R. 1, an FQHC reducing administrative burden, or a government agency modernizing eligibility, we'd like to understand your situation before we recommend anything.

  • Public Benefit Corporation
  • Providence, RI · Founded 2024
  • HIPAA Compliant