Elijah Landers

About

I is the founder of ClaimNav, an AI-powered healthcare financial navigation platform built to make healthcare pricing actually usable for patients and operationally valuable for hospitals. Currently a student at Vanderbilt, I started ClaimNav after personally navigating surgery and insurance issues alone, hundreds of miles from home, while realizing that even hospitals often could not clearly explain what patients owed or why. That experience evolved into a broader insight through thousands of hours shadowing physicians and healthcare systems: the healthcare industry has invested billions into price transparency compliance, but almost none of that data is understandable or actionable for patients. I saw the gap not as a patient education problem, but as an infrastructure problem — one that creates measurable financial burden for both patients and providers. In under a year, I have independently built and launched ClaimNav’s MVP, grew the platform to hundreds of organic users with zero paid acquisition, secured early nonprofit partnerships, and developed a product spanning cost estimation, EOB decoding, denial appeals, and transparency data infrastructure. I combines healthcare domain exposure, strong product intuition, and relentless execution with a clear vision: building the financial operating layer between hospitals and patients.