Oncology Ventures: Announcing Investment in WellBeam + Comedy
Investing in start-ups to improve cancer care and research
Current State of Post-Acute Care in The U.S.
Post-acute care coordination remains one of the largest inefficiencies in U.S. healthcare delivery. Transitions from hospital to home health, hospice, and infusion are still characterized by manual workflows, fragmented EMR integrations, and lost billing opportunities. For oncology patients (who often require complex transitions across acute and post-acute settings), these inefficiencies translate into delayed care, administrative burden, and significant revenue leakage for providers.
As we have shared, 19M people in the U.S. are living with or beyond cancer and 2M people are diagnosed every year. With high hospitalization rates for cancer patients (studies show 57%), a conservative estimate says there are ~6M cancer-related care transitions per year (including repeat events for the same patient).
Today, fewer than 1 in 4 eligible transitions are billed using the existing TCM and G-code reimbursement pathways. Most providers don’t systematically capture these codes because the routing, certification, and documentation workflows sit outside the EMR. At $100–$200 per signed plan-of-care, this leaves a substantial amount of revenue unclaimed.
There is an inherent clinical risk due to this inefficient workflow, as providers rely on fax, email, or they log into third-party portals. This can lead to delays of 2-3 weeks for plan-of-care documentation. And, we know that delayed initiation of home health, hospice, or infusion services increases readmission risk and worsens patient experience.
To summarize, we have definable revenue leakage + high-stakes clinical risk + fragmented workflows. These problems are particularly acute in oncology, where patients frequently move across multiple sites of care, often with complex regimens, comorbidities, and tight therapeutic windows.
Enter WellBeam
WellBeam is an interoperability solution that sits between acute, ambulatory and post-acute care to transform clinical and billing workflows. WellBeam embeds directly inside EMRs (notably Epic) to digitize workflows, automate billing, and enable communication between hospital systems and home health agencies.
The platform allows physicians to initiate, authorize, and monitor transitions without leaving their EMR. By doing so, WellBeam converts post-acute care coordination from a compliance burden into a revenue-generating and intelligence-building platform.
Every completed transition generates timestamped data: order initiation, documentation turnaround, billing efficiency. This creates a flywheel - operational data → predictive models → monetizable insights.
WellBeam’s entry wedge is attractive because it targets a problem that is both urgent and financially relevant. Health systems must address care coordination to succeed under value-based care, oncology patients are among the most complex and vulnerable populations affected by poor transitions, and the economics align for rapid adoption.
WellBeam has live deployments at Cedars-Sinai, Sansum (Sutter), and Advocate Health, where the platform has demonstrated 3-5x ROI through automated G-code capture and workflow acceleration.
Unlike its competitors (e.g. Forcura, Careport, TigerConnect), WellBeam is directly embedded inside Epic, allowing order signing, billing, and communication to occur within the physician’s native workflow. This technical wedge has proven decisive in customer adoption and represents a defensible moat.
Case study results from one client:
Documentation turnaround reduced from ~21 days to <3 days.
Net new revenue of $150-200K per clinic per year from G-code capture.
ROI of 5x subscription cost within months.
High physician satisfaction (client saw a >100% increase in Net Promoter Score).
WellBeam identifies incomplete or missing fields, reducing re-work and flags at-risk transitions (e.g., oncology patients requiring urgent follow-up) based on workflow timing.
In practice, WellBeam:
At discharge, allows the physician to complete post-acute orders inside Epic.
Routes documentation to the appropriate home health, hospice, or infusion provider.
Allows for plans of care to be signed and filed automatically back into Epic.
Provides secure, HIPAA-compliant messaging that connects hospital and agency staff.
Triggers CMS G-code billing ($100-200 per encounter), generating immediate ROI for its partners.
WellBeam is what that future of healthcare technology looks like: workflow-native, reimbursement-aligned.
Oncology Ventures is excited to partner with Amee Devani and the WellBeam team as they make transitions of care effective and economically viable.
Comedy!
What’s going on with every coffee shop getting into the hat game?
Every café now thinks it’s Supreme. You walk in for an espresso and leave with a $42 trucker hat that says “Iced Latte Energy.”
How’d that start? “You know what I need? A hat that says I overpaid for caffeine.”
It used to be that merch was for your favorite local band. It used to mean something. Now it’s for baristas who can’t spell your name.
They release them as “Limited edition.” Yeah, limited to people with no self-control. Boom, roasted. (Wild that with puns like this I am still not a doctor).
Coffee shops selling hats is the perfect metaphor for AI start-ups. The end product is irrelevant. It’s all about the brand story.
TSA’s probably next… “Grab a hat that says Randomly Selected on your way to the gate.” Love a hat that says we don’t trust you.
I am sure you saw this coming.… click here for Oncology Ventures’ merch drop. We are giving away 25, limited edition OV-branded hats. First come first serve. Thanks for reading.
Asks
Do you know anyone building a start-up that is…
Automating clinical note-taking through voice AI
Improving oncology caregiver support
Enabling oncology clinical trial enrollment
Let us know if you will be at the JPM Conference in SF from 1/12-1/15.
We are co-hosting an event with our friends at Debiopharm, Yosemite and BrightEdge.
see: www.valhalla.healthcare