Navin Nagiah is the CEO and co-founder of Daffodil Health, an AI-first platform modernizing health plan administration and claims pricing to help payers and TPAs reduce costs and bring transparency to one of healthcare’s most complex systems. With more than two decades of experience, Navin previously served as Senior Vice President of Products at MultiPlan, where he led innovation across payment integrity and cost management solutions. It was there that he saw firsthand how legacy infrastructure, opaque pricing, and misaligned incentives drive administrative waste and rising healthcare costs - insights that inspired the founding of Daffodil Health. Earlier in his career, including time at McKinsey & Company, Navin focused on building and scaling new healthcare businesses, shaping his conviction that the system’s back-end requires fundamental reinvention.
Cost management strategies need to focus on simplifying the system, doing away with the outdated processes that inflate costs, and building and deploying tools that allow organizations to control their spending.