How much does Candid Health cost?

No pricing is published; Candid sells through a demo.

What are the best alternatives to Candid Health?

Based on documented capability coverage across the Agentic Index 14 point taxonomy, the closest alternatives to Candid Health among healthcare agents are Infinitus, SPRY, Sully.ai, SuperDial. Each is graded on the same public evidence, and no vendor pays for placement.

Does Candid Health support MCP and tool calling?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Candid Health publishes public evidence of Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, tool calling, and API or SDK extensibility for connecting agents to external tools. Evidence basis: A public API reference at docs.joincandidhealth.com covers pre-encounter (eligibility, appointments, coverages, patients), encounters and service lines, claims, patient collections and financial transactions, with token authentication, an O. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does Candid Health have SOC 2, SSO and role based access control?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Candid Health publishes public evidence of enterprise security and identity controls, covering a compliance posture such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001, single sign on (SSO or SAML), and role based access control (RBAC). Evidence basis: A SOC 2 Type 2 examination by AssurancePoint closed with an unqualified opinion. SCIM 2.0 provisioning from Okta, Microsoft Entra or OneLogin assigns roles for each organization (Organization Admin, Biller, Editor, Viewer) with SSO. Further. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does Candid Health give you tracing and observability into agent runs?

Partial under the Agentic Index verification standard. Candid Health publishes some public evidence of logging or observability, but narrower than full tracing and auditability across agent runs. Evidence basis: Reporting runs in real time down to the individual claim, with exports of raw claim data and tracking of every remaining manual touch. Candid Data Share exports encounters, claim submission history, service lines, transactions, charges, pay. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

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Candid Health

Q: Who is Candid Health for?

digital health companies, multi-location provider groups, MSOs

Also known as: Candid Agents

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Healthcare agentindependentVerified 2026-09-29

Entry priceContact sales; no pricing publishedFull pricing detail

Autonomous revenue cycle platform where a configurable rules engine and AI agents submit and correct claims without manual work, with a public API, SOC 2 Type 2 and a published touchless claim rate definition.

Candid Health sells an AI-first revenue cycle platform for medical groups, MSOs, digital health organizations and billing companies. A rules engine ships with preconfigured payer rules kept up to date with payer requirements and lets customers build their own logic by payer, plan, location and provider. It monitors claims around the clock, edits and corrects them instead of flagging them for review, and works alongside AI agents that do repetitive work in other platforms, with every remaining manual touch tracked.

Candid defines its touchless claim rate (claims submitted, processed and adjudicated without human intervention) and reports customers at 95 percent or higher. Reporting reaches the individual claim with raw data exports. A public API covers eligibility, appointments, patients, encounters, claims and collections, with out-of-the-box integrations to EHRs such as Healthie, Elation, Canvas and Medplum and to collections, lockbox, eligibility and credentialing partners. Candid completed a SOC 2 Type 2 examination in 2025 and supports SCIM provisioning with role assignment and SSO. It raised a $120M Series D in July 2026.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://candidhealth.com

Funding status

Series D, $120M raised in July 2026, after a Series C with Oak HC/FT participation; founded by Palantir alumni Nick Perry and Doug Proctor

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

autonomous claims submissiondenial management and appealspayment postingpayer portal retrievalrevenue cycle reporting

Target customers

digital health companiesmulti-location provider groupsMSOs

Deployment options

SaaS

Integrations

A public API (eligibility, appointments, patients, encounters, claims, collections) with native HL7v2. Out-of-the-box integrations cover Healthie, Elation, Canvas, Medplum, Welkin and Avon, Stripe, Cedar and Collectly for collections, plus lockbox, eligibility and credentialing partners.

In practice

Your digital health company bills thousands of claims a month and denials keep piling up. Candid's rules engine checks and corrects each claim against payer rules before it goes out, aiming to get claims paid without anyone touching them.

You run an MSO with providers across several states and payers. Candid lets you write billing rules by payer, plan, location and provider, and applies them to every claim.

Your product team wants billing built into your own app. Candid's API covers eligibility, encounters, claims and patient payments, with a sandbox to test on fake data first.

Sources & related URLs

Research sources

https://candidhealth.com/ https://www.joincandidhealth.com/features/automation https://candidhealth.com/integrations https://www.oakhcft.com/blog-post/the-next-wave-of-rcm-innovation-candid-health

Agentic Index coverage score

8.0 / 14 capabilities · 57%

Integrations & Tool Calling	Full
Out-of-the-box integrations cover EHRs (Healthie, Elation, Canvas, Medplum, Welkin, Avon and others), patient collections (Stripe, Cedar, Collectly) and lockbox, eligibility and credentialing partners, and the platform also supports native HL7v2 and a public API for custom integrations. The platform submits claims, and its AI agents do work in other platforms. Eligibility checks run through Availity, and the API also handles insurance discovery, coordination of benefits, and patient payments and refunds. SourceCandid Health, docs.joincandidhealth.com llms.txt index and candidhealth.com/integrationsread 2026-10-05
Workflow Orchestration	Full
A configurable rules engine lets customers build custom business logic by payer, plan, location and provider and enforce their own workflows, and it edits and corrects claims end to end alongside AI agents. Pre service rule pipelines can be run on an encounter through the API, and teams can define custom schemas and metadata for their own fields. SourceCandid Health, docs.joincandidhealth.com llms.txt index; candidhealth.com/automation-airead 2026-10-05
Knowledge Grounding & RAG	Partial
Preconfigured payer rules are kept up to date with payer requirements and applied to each claim beside the customer's provider rosters, credentialing, contracts and fee schedules held in the platform. There is no separate knowledge store for the AI to search. Contracts, credentialing spans, fee schedules with their rate history and payer plan groups are all managed through the API. SourceCandid Health, docs.joincandidhealth.com llms.txt index; candidhealth.com/automation-airead 2026-10-05
Human Oversight & Guardrails	Partial
Customers write the rules that bound what the engine changes and choose which rules run on an edited claim, and every remaining manual touch is tracked. The engine corrects claims instead of holding them for review, and no approval step comes before an agent action goes through. A Tasks API lets teams list, create and update tasks and the actions available on them. SourceCandid Health, docs.joincandidhealth.com llms.txt index; candidhealth.com/blog/candid-health-wins-2026-medtech-breakthrough-award-for-ai-innovationread 2026-10-05
Security, Identity & Governance	Full
A SOC 2 Type 2 examination by AssurancePoint closed with an unqualified opinion. SCIM 2.0 provisioning from Okta, Microsoft Entra or OneLogin assigns roles for each organization (Organization Admin, Biller, Editor, Viewer) with SSO. Further roles cover the front office, analytics, docs and machine to machine API access, and SSO is available to enterprise organizations. SourceCandid Health, docs.joincandidhealth.com SCIM Provisioningread 2026-10-05
Observability & Auditability	Partial
Reporting runs in real time down to the individual claim, with exports of raw claim data and tracking of every remaining manual touch. Candid Data Share exports encounters, claim submission history, service lines, transactions, charges, payments and adjustments, and an Events API lists platform events. There is no record of what the rules engine or AI agents changed on each claim. SourceCandid Health, docs.joincandidhealth.com llms.txt index and Candid Data Share; candidhealth.com/data-reportingread 2026-10-05
Memory & State Persistence	Not documented
Claim and administrative data are the billing record, and there is no separate memory for Candid's AI. That record includes the history of each patient, appointment and coverage, which the API returns. SourceCandid Health, docs.joincandidhealth.com llms.txt index; candidhealth.com/data-reportingread 2026-10-05
Deployment & Data Residency	Not documented
Customers are not told where Candid hosts data, and there is no region choice, customer environment or on premises option. Its production and staging (sandbox) environments are API environments for testing and live use. The sandbox takes no PHI, returns sample eligibility data and never submits claims. SourceCandid Health, docs.joincandidhealth.com Candid Environmentsread 2026-10-05
Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs	Partial
Preconfigured payer rules and ready made logic ship with the rules engine, but the individual rule sets and what each does are not published. The API exposes pre service rule pipelines that can be run on an encounter, and guides cover patient invoicing and mocking eligibility checks. SourceCandid Health, docs.joincandidhealth.com llms.txt index; candidhealth.com/automation-airead 2026-10-05
Triggers & Channel Coverage	Full
The platform monitors claims 24/7, validating and autocorrecting billing data, and aims to submit and finalize claims without human intervention. Eligibility checks can also run in batches, and an Events API lets other systems read platform events. SourceCandid Health, docs.joincandidhealth.com llms.txt index; candidhealth.com/automation-airead 2026-10-05
Model Flexibility & Routing	Not documented
Machine learning and large language models are named in the product without a provider, and customers cannot choose a model. Sourcecandidhealth.com/blog/candid-health-wins-2026-medtech-breakthrough-award-for-ai-innovationread 2026-09-29
APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility	Full
A public API reference at docs.joincandidhealth.com covers pre-encounter (eligibility, appointments, coverages, patients), encounters and service lines, claims, patient collections and financial transactions, with token authentication, an OpenAPI file, a Postman collection, staging and production environments and a SCIM 2.0 API. The reference also covers contracts, fee schedules, credentialing, write offs, refunds and tasks, and there is guidance on SDK setup, design principles and the policy for breaking changes. An MCP server lets AI agents read the documentation. SourceCandid Health, docs.joincandidhealth.com overview and llms.txt indexread 2026-10-05
Testing, Debugging & Optimization	Partial
Machine learning and AI automate the feedback loop between claim insights and fixes deployed through the rules engine, Candid says. Candid does not explain how the loop works or report its results. There is no evaluation harness and there are no test cases. Fee schedules can be test matched before use, and the sandbox lets teams try an integration on fake data without submitting claims. SourceCandid Health, docs.joincandidhealth.com Candid Environments and llms.txt index; candidhealth.com/automation-airead 2026-10-05
Browser & Computer Use	Partial
Candid deploys AI agents that perform tedious work in other platforms. Candid names neither those platforms nor the mechanism the agents use in them. Sourcecandidhealth.com/blog/candid-health-wins-2026-medtech-breakthrough-award-for-ai-innovationread 2026-09-29

The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded

Pricing

Contact sales; no pricing published

What is public

No public pricing. Candid defines its touchless claim rate and payer net collection rate on its site and reports customers at 95 percent or higher TCR and 96 percent or higher payer net collections, but publishes no commercial terms.

Variable cost rationale

No public rate. Cost likely scales with claims volume and payer mix (inference, not stated by the vendor).

Sales call required

Yes, required for paid access

Free / trial

No free tier or trial; a demo is the entry point.

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-29

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SuperDial9.0 / 14Adds documented Deployment & Data Residency
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Humata Health7.5 / 14Fuller documented coverage on Knowledge Grounding & RAG and Observability & Auditability

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