Tenens Health

We're building a physician shortage intelligence platform for rural America, starting with hospital-level, specialty-level gap data and expanding into placement and workforce planning.

The problem

Shreyas lost his brother not to disease but to distance. The specialist existed. He just wasn't there in time.

Amar's mother was diagnosed with cancer four years ago. She still flies to Boston every year for care that, by any reasonable measure, should exist closer to home.

Sixty million rural Americans live some version of this. The institutions best positioned to fix it (medical schools setting residency counts, federal programs allocating more than $1 billion annually, hospital systems planning specialty departments) are making those decisions from data that is years out of date and aggregated no finer than the state level. The signal is too blurry to act on, so the shortage keeps regenerating itself.

What we're building

The Healthcare Speciality Coverage Gap Index™ (HSCGI™) is our first output: hospital-level, specialty-level shortage data built from public CMS sources, precise enough to inform placement and funding decisions rather than support another committee report.

On top of that index, we are building an AI-native locum tenens agency that places physicians where the data shows care is missing. And beyond that, an intelligence platform to help medical schools, federal workforce programs, and hospital systems shift the physician supply curve so that the shortage, in the geographies we serve, stops being a shortage.

Why not the incumbents

The large locum tenens agencies (CHG Healthcare, AMN Healthcare, Barton Associates) profit structurally from the shortage. Every unfilled specialty gap is recurring placement revenue. They have no incentive to share placement data with HRSA or medical schools, because that data is their competitive moat, and they cannot credibly advocate for the workforce reforms that would shrink their own market.

We are built to eliminate the problem rather than harvest it. We will share aggregate, anonymized demand data with HRSA, medical schools, and policymakers, because sharing that data is how physician supply eventually catches up to demand. Our measure of success is not placement volume but the closing of the gaps themselves: when locum tenens demand drops in a region we serve, the platform has done its job.

Mississippi is our first focus state, with all 50 states to follow.

Contact: founders@tenenshealth.com