In the past decade, the healthcare industry has finally started to acknowledge the vital role of community health workers. For instance, about half of states now reimburse community health worker services through Medicaid, and Medicare added community health worker services to its physician fee schedule for the first time ever last year.

But without the right tools, community health workers are often unable to secure these new payments. This is because they’ve never been contracted with health plans, accepted referrals, submitted claims, or needed to meet the complex compliance requirements of the greater healthcare system.

A Los Angeles-based startup named Pear Suite is on a mission to solve this very problem. Two weeks ago, a panel of three venture capitalist judges crowned the com

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