Company profile · 3 min read
Codes Health: Medical records from client intake to settlement-ready evidence
Codes Health retrieves, verifies and summarizes medical records, bills and imaging for plaintiff law firms across a public 50-state workflow.
Cofounder of Lazyweb (a16z Speedrun). Previously grew subscriptions and built native ads at Duolingo. Writes First1000 (90,000+ subscribers).
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Codes Health retrieves, checks and summarizes medical records for plaintiff law firms. It fits a personal-injury practice that loses settlement speed to rejected requests, missing providers, fax follow-up and medical timelines assembled by hand.
What it does
Codes Health’s current site describes a workflow from client intake to settlement-ready case: validate the request, locate care sites, retrieve medical, billing, imaging and affidavit records, then produce chronologies and case insights. It says retrieval uses AI plus human intervention, with status updates for every fax and call and automated checking to reduce preventable provider rejections.
The product is not just a document summarizer. Its value sits earlier in the process, where the firm needs complete records and a clear view of diagnoses, treatment, future expenses and missing evidence before negotiating. The page says coverage spans all 50 states and lists claims integrations, custodian integrations and a proprietary provider network.
Public pricing is not listed. The homepage reports a one-to-two-week average turnaround and company case claims including 80% less manual review, 2.5x faster retrieval, 50% more case capacity and larger settlements. Those are vendor or customer claims, not independent measurements. A firm should run one matter through intake, retrieval, gap detection and chronology before trusting the topline numbers.
Founder context and tradeoffs
The YC profile identifies Cody Durr and Austin Mills as founders but provides limited professional background beyond their roles. The company publishes a HIPAA-compliant positioning, encryption, access controls, audit trails, no-training data policy, BAAs and third-party testing claims. These should be verified in the firm’s own legal and security review.
The key tradeoff is speed versus evidence confidence. AI can surface a missing record or summarize a file, but the firm still needs to know what was requested, what arrived, what remains missing and which human verified the insight. Codes says the workflow includes human intervention, which is a useful boundary for a legal case record.
Editorial take
I would shortlist Codes Health for a plaintiff firm with enough case volume to measure retrieval time and missing-record rate. Start with one case type and compare a complete record package against the firm’s current process. The product earns its place when it helps the lawyer reach a case decision sooner, not merely when it produces a shorter summary.
Quick facts
| Field | Sourced detail |
|---|---|
| Product | Medical-record retrieval, verification, chronologies and case insights |
| Buyers | Plaintiff personal-injury law firms and healthcare/legal teams |
| Coverage | Homepage says nationwide 50-state retrieval |
| Public claims | 1–2 week turnaround and operational outcomes, company-reported |
| Pricing | Not publicly listed |
Sources checked
| Source | Checked |
|---|---|
| YC profile | 2026-09-19 |
| Codes Health homepage | 2026-09-19 |
| Codes Health blog | 2026-09-19 |
Cohort context
Codes Health is listed in Summer 2024. In our 2026-09-18 directory snapshot, 161 of 248 listed companies in that cohort have YC’s primary industry label B2B (64.9%). This is a current-directory comparison, not an original intake count or a performance ranking. Nine-cohort dataset.
Public website snapshot
Observed 2026-09-19T16:16:57.108Z in raw homepage HTML. This records visible metadata and advertised links, not agent execution or product quality.
| Signal | Homepage observation |
|---|---|
| Product description metadata | Observed |
| Canonical link | Observed |
| H1 or H2 heading | Observed |
| Typed structured data | Not observed in this response |
| Docs/developer link | Not observed in this response |
| Pricing link | Not observed in this response |
| llms.txt link | Not observed in this response |
| Markdown alternate | Not observed in this response |
Public observations · Collection method. Missing links here do not establish that a capability or file is absent elsewhere.
About the author
Cofounder of Lazyweb (a16z Speedrun). Previously grew subscriptions and built native ads at Duolingo. Writes First1000 (90,000+ subscribers).
I cofound Lazyweb and publish Mudpie. This is an owner-written publication, not an independent testing organization. Research notes distinguish observations, sourced reporting and editorial judgment.
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