Today's guest is Jacob Shiff, Co-Founder & COO and Leonard Apeltsin, Head of Data Science at Anomaly. Founded in 2020, Anomaly is tackling the challenge of fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) in healthcare, a problem costing over $300 billion per year in the US. They are building software that uses analytics, ML and proprietary data to catch and prevent improper healthcare payments for payers and employers. Anomaly brings together top engineers and data scientists, deep payment integrity domain experts, and experienced payer and benefits leaders.

In the episode, Jacob and Leonard will tell you about:

What inspired them to set up Anomaly,

The impact they are making within Healthcare Finances,

Applying AI & Data Science to help solve these problems,

Key steps on bringing predictive models into production,

Challenges they need to overcome working with data,

Skills they look for when hiring Data Scientists,

& What excites them for the future of Anomaly