About Us

Solving a problem we’ve experienced first hand

Decimal Code was born out of Michigan Medicine, backed by six years of R&D and built using 15 million cases across 84 research hospitals. Our team is composed of clinicians, data scientists, researchers, and medical billing experts. Every solution we’ve designed is informed by feedback from medical coders and revenue cycle managers.

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What Separates Decimal Code?

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    Transparency

    There’s a lot of noise in revenue cycle AI. We aim to make it entirely clear how we’re providing value and capture a fraction of the value we create for you.

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    People

    We enjoy this work and want to work with good people. Partnerships are important to us, and we want our customers to consider Decimal Code as an extended part of the team.

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    Problem Solving

    We solve problems that exist. Decimal Code spun out of a team of data scientists at an academic medical center, and we want to focus on the issues you care about.

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    Patient Centric

    79% of prior authorization denials result in increased costs for patients. At the end of the day, medical information defines how a patient is treated, and better administration leads to better patient outcomes.

Meet Our Team

  • Joey Panella, co-founder & CEO of Decimal Code.

    Joey Panella

    CO-FOUNDER & CEO

    Joey is an operator with experience in hospital finance, research commercialization, and venture capital. He earned his BBA at the University of Michigan and his MBA at Chicago Booth, where he focused on strategy and entrepreneurial finance.

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  • John Vandervest, co-founder & CTO of Decimal Code.

    John Vandervest

    CO-FOUNDER & CTO

    John has over 20 years of experience in healthcare IT and is the technical co-founder of the MPOG research consortium. John earned his BS in Computer Science at Michigan and MS in Predictive Analytics at Northwestern.

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  • Mike Burns, co-founder & CMO of Decimal Code.

    Mike Burns

    CO-FOUNDER & CMO

    Mike is a practicing clinician and researcher who holds the position of ACMIO for AI at Michigan Medicine. Mike earned his bachelor’s degree at Michigan, PhD at Wisconsin-Madison, and MD at Northwestern.

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