#127: Dr. Vatsal Thakkar: Solving the Pain Point of Filing Claims with Reimbursify

<p><strong>OVERVIEW:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jason A. Duprat, Entrepreneur, Healthcare Practitioner and Host of the</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Healthcare Entrepreneur Academy</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">podcast talks to Dr. Vatsal Thakkar, MD, Founder, President and CMO at Reimbursify. Dr. Thakkar talks about his healthcare entrepreneurial journey and creating an innovative process for  managing insurance claims through Reimbursify. He also discusses how technology is a great tool to generate revenue and elevate healthcare services for patients.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Thakkar talks about his journey becoming a physician and how he started his own private psychiatric practice. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">He recommends catering to the natural demand of a specialty niche in the healthcare space.  </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Insurance companies save money by saving time, which often results in reduced  patient care quality. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Thakkar has flipped the model of assembly line medicine by streamlining the filing process for claim forms.  </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">He saw his patients struggling to file insurance claims. As a result, he created Reimbursify, which eliminates paperwork headaches, elevates workflows and introduces a new way to deal with claims effectively and efficiently.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The development of Reimbursify was guided by the desire to keep it simple,  easy, effective and accurate. The app allows patients to file an out of network claim on a smartphone.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the soul of CTO, Dr. Thakkar b