Christina Huang is Co-Founder and CTO at Ruma Care, a Y Combinator W26 company automating prior authorizations for specialty medications and biologics. She brings deep technical expertise in machine learning, robotics, and healthcare integrations to tackle the complex problem of insurance authorization delays.

Christina graduated from Yale University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where she met her co-founder in their CS50 class freshman year. She previously led integrations with United Healthcare at Medallion and built robots, multimodal models, and voice assisted experiences at Apple.

Christina experienced the healthcare access problem firsthand as a patient, spending years fighting insurers to get on biologic treatments. This personal experience drives her mission to help clinics get patients treated faster while reducing administrative burden.

Ruma Care is live across clinics in California and Nevada, helping them cut denial rates by 50% and reduce staff time per prior authorization by 20x. The company automates a process that traditionally spans 70+ online portals, disparate paper forms, and manual phone calling into a single streamlined platform.

Ruma Care spoke with 150+ providers who confirmed that navigating insurance coverage rules is their number one challenge. The platform addresses a critical problem where specialty medications costing $80,000 to $150,000 per year are denied by insurers at a rate of 37% annually, leaving providers covering costs.