# Cogitativo

> Cogitativo helps health plans and federal and state programs see where a different response can improve care, act where it will change the outcome, and measure whether it worked.

- Company: Cogitativo, Inc., 2001 Addison Street, Suite 300-312, Berkeley, CA 94710
- Contact: insights@cogitativo.com, (510) 761-7420
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cogitativo-inc-/
- Leadership: Gary Velasquez, Chief Executive Officer; Meredith Mathews, MD, MPH, Clinical Advisor; Tuan Dinh, PhD, Chief AI Officer; Drew Erickson, PhD, Senior Principal Data Scientist; Anna-Marie Blinn, SVP, Data Engineering and IT; John Gouzoules, Chief Product Officer; David Buhler, Chief Financial Officer

## Solutions

- [Visión](https://cogitativo.com/vision.html): Visión identifies risk of disease progression and informs clinical review, personalized care journeys, and care options. Clinicians retain the decision.
- [Conciencia](https://cogitativo.com/conciencia.html): Conciencia supports payment integrity through rules, pattern detection, validated findings, root-cause review, and customer-owned responses.
- [Cognitive CxO](https://cogitativo.com/cognitive-cxo.html): Cognitive CxO is an operational decision platform for health plans and public programs, connecting cost, contracting, policy, and network decisions.
- [Knowledge Labs](https://cogitativo.com/knowledge-labs.html): Frame a focused healthcare operating question with Cogitativo Knowledge Labs. Receive findings, supporting evidence, a workbench, and a leadership readout.

## Who we serve

- [Health plans](https://cogitativo.com/health-plans.html): Connect clinical needs with payment, cost, contracting, policy, and network decisions across Commercial, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid plans.
- [Federal and state programs](https://cogitativo.com/federal-state-programs.html): Help federal and state health programs examine spending, payment integrity, access, and clinical need at the level where a responsible team can act.

## Evidence summaries

- [Project Foresight: identifying Veterans at risk of disease progression](https://cogitativo.com/project-foresight.html): A source-linked summary of Project Foresight: VHA risk identification as of May 2022, the clinical prioritization question, and the limits of the evidence.
- [Targeted outreach at Blue Shield of California](https://cogitativo.com/blue-shield-targeted-outreach.html): How Blue Shield described using Cogitativo for targeted COVID-19 vaccination outreach, with engagement distinguished from vaccination and health outcomes.
- [Bending the Acuity Curve](https://cogitativo.com/bending-the-acuity-curve.html): A readable summary of Visión’s retrospective disease-progression case, separating predictive findings from projected intervention economics.

## Company

- [Home](https://cogitativo.com/): Cogitativo helps health plans and public programs connect individual care needs with clinical, payment, contract, policy, and network decisions.
- [About](https://cogitativo.com/about.html): Meet Cogitativo’s leaders and learn how managed-care operating experience, data science, and AI inform Precision Health Delivery.
- [News & publications](https://cogitativo.com/news-publications.html): Explore Cogitativo program experience, customer accounts, evidence summaries, press releases, company publications, and news coverage.
- [Contact](https://cogitativo.com/contact.html): Discuss a clinical, payment, cost, contracting, policy, or network question with Cogitativo. Contact the team directly or open an email inquiry.

## Publications (PDF)

- [Evolving Addiction Risk Scores from Posteriori Reaction to a Priori Foresight](https://cogitativo.com/documents/pov-opioid-addiction-among-veterans.pdf): PDF
- [A true signal in value - disease progression](https://cogitativo.com/documents/pov-provider-networks.pdf): PDF
- [New Dawn for Healthcare: Machine Learning and Medical Innovation](https://cogitativo.com/documents/pov-wrapper-a-new-dawn-for-healthcare-machine-learning-and-medical-innovation.pdf): PDF
- [Position Your Therapeutic Product for Success Through Advanced Machine Learning](https://cogitativo.com/documents/pov-pharma.pdf): PDF
- [Advanced Machine Learning Solution to Reduce Chronic Disease Burden](https://cogitativo.com/documents/pov-deferred-care-for-general-population.pdf): PDF
- [System Complexity: Cogitativo's Point of View on Improper Claims Payments](https://cogitativo.com/documents/pov-systems-complexity.pdf): PDF
- [Revealing and Mitigating the Effects of Toxic Exposures in Individual Veterans](https://cogitativo.com/documents/pov-toxic-exposures-for-veterans.pdf): PDF
- [Reduce Chronic Disease Burden Through Advanced Machine Learning](https://cogitativo.com/documents/pov-deferred-care-with-va-focus.pdf): PDF
- [Advancing Military and Veteran Suicide Prevention: Making a difference in the lives of American heroes using the power of Artificial Intelligence](https://cogitativo.com/documents/pov-preventing-veteran-military-suicide.pdf): PDF
- [Cogitativo’s Decision Intelligence](https://cogitativo.com/documents/decision-intelligence-04052024.pdf): PDF
- [Our Challenge Question Approach](https://cogitativo.com/documents/challenge-question-approach-summary-vfinal2-0.pdf): PDF
- [Improper Payments - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly](https://cogitativo.com/documents/pov-payment-integrity-v2-10072024-2.pdf): PDF
- [Detecting Patient Deterioration in the ICU](https://cogitativo.com/documents/vision-at-the-va-telecritical-care-10302024.pdf): PDF
- [Surprised by Unexpected Healthcare Costs? Introducing GenAI Risk Intelligence](https://cogitativo.com/documents/genai-ri-c-04282025d.pdf): PDF
- [Optimizing ICU Care - Predictive Models and TeleCritical Care](https://cogitativo.com/documents/tcc-solution-overview-vf-04012025.pdf): PDF
- [Cogitativo Expands AI Platform to Predict ICU Patient Deterioration in Collaboration with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs TeleCritical Care Program](https://cogitativo.com/documents/press-release-cogitativo-va-icu-jama-fda-09122025-1.pdf): PDF, 2025-09-12
- [Preserving the Promise of Healthcare](https://cogitativo.com/documents/shine-preserving-the-promise-of-healthcare-vf-10062025.pdf): PDF
- [Bending the Acuity Curve](https://cogitativo.com/documents/vision-brochure-v4.pdf): PDF
- [AI Powered Financial Intelligence: Cognitive CXO - Manage the Unmanaged](https://cogitativo.com/documents/cognitive-cxo-brochure-vf-09032026.pdf): PDF

## Optional

- [Cogitativo and National Consulting Partners form new SDVOSB Joint Venture](https://orangeslices.ai/cogitativo-and-national-consulting-partners-form-new-sdvosb-joint-venture/): Article, 2024-05-10
- [Cogitativo uses its Visión platform to partner with VA's Office of Telecritical Care.](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7117560414476853249/): LinkedIn, 2023-10-10
- [PR Newswire: Cogitativo Appoints New Strategic Advisor](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cogitativo-appoints-new-strategic-advisor-301719345.html): Article, 2023-01-11
- [PR Newswire: The VA names Cogitativo a Finalist in $20 Million Mission Daybreak Grand Challenge to Reduce Veteran Suicides](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-va-names-cogitativo-a-finalist-in-20-million-mission-daybreak-grand-challenge-to-reduce-veteran-suicides-301627577.html): Article, 2022-09-19
- [PR Newswire: Cogitativo Announces Strategic Hires to Strengthen its Growth in Precision Health Initiatives for the US Government](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cogitativo-announces-strategic-hires-to-strengthen-its-growth-in-precision-health-initiatives-for-the-us-government-301619667.html): Article, 2022-09-07
- [PR Newswire: Robert Wilkie, Former VA Secretary, Joins Cogitativo Board of Directors](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/robert-wilkie-former-va-secretary-joins-cogitativo-board-of-directors-301585789.html): Article, 2022-07-13
- [PR Newswire: Cogitativo Joins the Veterans Health Administration to Address the Deferred Care Challenge Using AI Enabled Solution](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cogitativo-joins-the-veterans-health-administration-to-address-the-deferred-care-challenge-using-ai-enabled-solution-301460720.html): Article, 2022-01-13
- [PR Newswire: Cogitativo Releases Visión, A First-Of-Its-Kind Machine Learning Tool Built to Tackle the Growing Deferred Care Crisis](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cogitativo-releases-vision-a-first-of-its-kind-machine-learning-tool-built-to-tackle-the-growing-deferred-care-crisis-301378684.html): Article, 2021-09-16
- [Blue Shield CA: IN THE NEWS: JAMIE CHAN TELLS FORBES HOW DATA ANALYTICS HELPED BLUE SHIELD OF CALIFORNIA DELIVER VACCINE](https://news.blueshieldca.com/2021/05/19/in-the-news-jamie-chan-tells-forbes-how-data-analytics-helped-blue-shield-of-california-deliver-vaccine): Article, 2021-05-19
- [Businesswire: Five Companies Applying Artificial Intelligence to Patient Engagement Issues Named IDC Innovators](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200604005104/en/Five-Companies-Applying-Artificial-Intelligence-to-Patient-Engagement-Issues-Named-IDC-Innovators): Article, 2020-06-04
- [PR Newswire: Cogitativo Raises $18.5M Series B round of financing](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cogitativo-raises-18-5m-series-b-round-of-financing-300976543.html): Article, 2019-12-18
- [FinSMEs: Cogitativo Raises $5M in Series A Financing](https://www.finsmes.com/2017/09/cogitativo-raises-5m-in-series-a-financing.html): Article, 2017-09-22

Official website: https://cogitativo.com/