Leah Houston, MD

Leah Houston, MD Founder of https://hpec.io/

06/02/2026

ATTENTION MICHIGAN PHYSICIANS & PATIENTS!

Patients are increasingly paying more for healthcare without receiving better care.

One major reason? Facility fees.

When hospitals acquire independent physician practices, they can often charge additional “facility fees” for the exact same visit, with the same physician, in the same building, simply because the doctor is working out of a different location.

That creates higher costs for patients and makes it even harder for independent physicians to compete.

There are currently important bills in Michigan that could help address this:

• HB 5770 would ban many facility fees beginning in 2027

• HB 5709 would remove outdated Certificate of Need restrictions for imaging services like MRIs

These policies matter because they directly impact physician autonomy, healthcare access, competition, and affordability.

Independent physicians are being squeezed out while patients continue paying more into increasingly consolidated systems.

If you care about accessible, physician-led healthcare, now is the time to pay attention to these conversations.

05/30/2026

We have officially entered science fiction territory.

Pennsylvania is suing Character AI after allegations that some AI chatbots were claiming to practice medicine.

Most people see that story and think, “That’s crazy.”

I see something else.

Think about Waymo.

Waymo vehicles drive people around every day.

But the car doesn’t have a driver’s license.

A driver’s license exists to prove that a human can see, reason, and make decisions on the road.

didn’t get a driver’s license.

Waymo created an entirely new legal category.

The company and the system became authorized to drive.

They proved their cameras could see, their software could react, and their system could follow the rules well enough for regulators to approve it.

So here’s the question:

If AI systems eventually become better than humans at diagnosing disease, remembering medical information, following clinical guidelines, and monitoring patients…

What’s stopping regulators from creating an entirely new legal category where AI systems are authorized to practice medicine?

Not physician assistants.

Not nurse practitioners.

Not doctors.

Something entirely new.

I don’t know if it will happen.

But after watching what happened with self driving cars, I’m watching this very closely.

Because the question isn’t whether AI will get smarter.

The question is whether regulators eventually decide that a medical license was designed for humans, and AI needs a different path altogether.

What do you think?

05/21/2026

Most physicians assume their licensing and credentialing data is being managed correctly behind the scenes.

Until something goes wrong.

Healthcare still runs on fragmented systems that often don’t communicate with each other properly. And when mistakes happen, physicians are usually the ones left carrying the legal and professional risk.

That’s one of the reasons we built evercred

We’re creating AI-powered infrastructure that helps physicians stay ahead of licensing and credentialing issues before they become operational, financial, or compliance problems.

Our California license agents are now live. 🚀

They can help automate monitoring, verification workflows, and renewal reminders so physicians and practices aren’t relying on outdated manual processes to stay compliant.

👉 We are currently onboarding agents for our Texas license, with Florida and New York planned next as we continue expanding nationwide.

This isn’t just about convenience.

It’s about protecting physician mobility, reducing administrative risk, and modernizing infrastructure that should have evolved years ago.

The platform is free to join and explore!

We’ll be at the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Private Practice Conference in St. Louis.We’re hosting a sma...
04/30/2026

We’ll be at the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Private Practice Conference in St. Louis.

We’re hosting a small, private gathering on the first evening—nothing formal. Just a good group of physicians and operators, light bites, and drinks.

If you prefer real conversations over crowded conference floors, this is for you.

This is a picture of my mom and me, before her leukemia diagnosis.Before medical school.Before I had to step away from e...
03/25/2026

This is a picture of my mom and me, before her leukemia diagnosis.

Before medical school.

Before I had to step away from emergency medicine to become her caregiver.

I ensured she attended every appointment, understood every decision, and received the appropriate treatment at the right time. She was fortunate to receive a bone marrow transplant from a generous donor, and she survived.

She was also fortunate to have me by her side, and I’m not sure she would have survived if she hadn’t. That’s the problem.

That experience showed me how much friction exists on the patient side.

Getting to the right doctor.
Coordinating care.
Making sure nothing falls through the cracks.
It takes constant effort, advocacy, and oversight.

This used to be more easily coordinated with a primary care doctor who had the time and space to truly guide patients. But the system has changed that and has forced physicians to be rushed.

Right now, most people don’t have someone who can do that for them.

Physicians are burning out. They’re leaving the practice of medicine. Practices and hospitals are seeing high turnover, and patients are feeling the impact.

When doctors aren’t able to work, patients aren’t able to receive care.

They wait longer.
They struggle to find the right care.
They fall through gaps that shouldn’t exist.
Doctors aren’t the bottleneck.
The system is.

Reducing friction for physicians means reducing friction for patients.
That’s the work I’m focused on. But it only works if we do it together.

Do you agree?

If this resonates, comment below. I’d love to hear your story.

Follow me and evercred for more on this topic. Share this post with someone who has experienced these challenges firsthand—let's start a conversation.

Let's rebuild a system that truly puts patients first.

02/25/2026

What if credentialing didn’t slow everything down?

Join us live on March 3rd at 5PM PST | 8PM EST for a Zoom webinar where we’ll unpack how automation is transforming the credentialing experience for organizations and providers alike.

Less manual work. More clarity. Faster onboarding.

Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__aSEggzSSaurjXY9DzJRQw #/registration

02/23/2026

Still managing credentialing the hard way?

Join Evercred live on March 3rd at 5PM PST | 8PM EST for a Zoom webinar on how automation is changing the future of provider credentialing.

We’ll cover:
✔️ The hidden cost of manual processes
✔️ How automation accelerates onboarding
✔️ What forward-thinking organizations are doing differently

Register via the link in evercred bio.🚀

02/17/2026

Independent physicians didn’t lose autonomy because they wanted to.

They lost it because they didn’t have the tools.

For decades, credentialing software cost $25K — sometimes $1M+.

Only hospital systems could afford it.

So private practices did what they had to do:
💸 Sold�🤝 Contracted�🏥 Went concierge�
Burned out trying to manage it manually
📠Fax machines.�📊Spreadsheets.�📑Paper packets.�📞Endless follow-ups.

Credentialing was built for institutions — not for a 3-physician practice with one overwhelmed office manager.

That’s changing.

AI isn’t replacing physicians.

It’s replacing the administrative friction suffocating independent medicine.

We just made our first three evercred practice sales🚀

Close to 1000 physicians are already using the app!

Every single practice was still using spreadsheets or file cabinets.�
One runs everything off a single Excel sheet and a fax machine.

The demand for independence is real.
For the first time, the infrastructure is catching up:
💳 Billing�📅 Scheduling�🤖 AI documentation�📜 Credential automation

Hospitals won’t lose physicians because physicians don’t want to practice.

They’ll lose them because physicians won’t need institutional infrastructure anymore.

The future of healthcare isn’t bigger systems.

It’s empowered physicians who control their own credentials, data, and mobility.

And we’re just getting started. 🚀

🩺 HealthTech Week Is Officially Kicking Off on Monday🩺HealthTech Week is here—and I’m excited to be part of an incredibl...
01/09/2026

🩺 HealthTech Week Is Officially Kicking Off on Monday🩺

HealthTech Week is here—and I’m excited to be part of an incredible lineup of builders, investors, and operators shaping the future of healthcare.

I’ll be speaking at the HealthTech Summit in San Francisco this week, alongside dozens of brilliant minds, including Bill Tai of Actai Ventures and Matthew Holt of The Healthcare Blog

As a board-certified emergency physician and Founder & CEO of evercred, my work lives at the intersection of healthcare, AI, and digital identity. I built evercred to solve a problem every physician knows too well: administrative burden that pulls us away from patients and purpose.

At the Summit, I’ll be sharing how AI-powered, physician-centric credentialing can:

Eliminate redundant verification

Strengthen system integrity

Unlock real workforce mobility across healthcare

The HealthTech Summit anchors a full HealthTech Week (Jan 10–17)—a week of conversations, connection, and momentum coinciding with JPM Healthcare.

📍 San Francisco
📅 Jan 14–16 | HealthTech Summit

Grateful to be part of a community pushing healthcare forward—and excited for what this week will spark.

🚀Excited to share that I’ll be pitching evercred at the Founders Who Scale Startup Pitch Challenge during !📅TODAY: Tue...
10/07/2025

🚀Excited to share that I’ll be pitching evercred at the Founders Who Scale Startup Pitch Challenge during !

📅TODAY: Tuesday, Oct 7 | 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
📍 Amplitude HQ – 201 3rd St, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA
🤝Hosted by Amplitude , Braze and Colorwave
🔗https://partiful.com/e/wwREwXTUrarqmetG13EE

At Evercred, we’re building Lean Vertical AI solutions that automate one of healthcare’s biggest administrative bottlenecks — physician credentialing, a $150B inefficiency slowing down workforce mobility. We believe AI isn’t going to replace doctors- it’s going to replace Administrators
💡 Evercred domain-trained AI agents automate the manual verification work
🩺 Physicians use a portable wallet of pre-verified credentials that follows them throughout their careers
🌍 Solving a $150B problem within a $5T U.S. healthcare system

We’re a seed-stage, pre-revenue company with a product already in market, and with our model and defensible moat, we project a $2.5B SOM by year three.
If you’ll be around , come say hi or stop by to connect — we’re excited to share how agentic credentialing is transforming healthcare.

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