Ryan Russell
I've spent over 20 years inside the systems most patients never see — implementing and running Cerner Millennium at hospital systems, managing outpatient pharmacy platforms, supporting home health and oncology software, and working on VA and DoD care systems for veterans and military families.
That vantage point means I've watched the same problem play out from every side of the counter. A patient stands there confused about a price, while three rooms away, a hospital system, a pharmacy benefit manager, and a billing team all have better information than the patient does. Real, legal savings sitting unclaimed, year after year, not because they don't exist, but because nobody ever built the patient a way to find them.
Arik is what I built to close that gap. Not a coupon aggregator, not another company taking a cut from a PBM or a manufacturer, just a tool built by someone who's spent two decades on the inside of these systems, pointed entirely at getting that money back into patients' hands.