Amaze Health

Amaze empowers people to take charge of their own healthcare. What could make more sense? At the same time, what could be more challenging? The American healthcare system doesn’t approve. It is as though every time we try to exert our will, the system’s antibodies work to deny us the right to make informed decisions. We have insurance companies that dictate which doctors we can or cannot see, we have doctors that order tests and procedures without explanation, and we have medical billing offices that send us incoherent bills. Oh, and when we ask the price of something, the insurance companies and medical providers point the finger at each other, leaving us without answers. Amaze wants to put an end to the chaos by empowering every American with the knowledge, information, self-confidence, and support they need to become well-informed consumers of healthcare.

The story of Amaze begins with the experience of its founder, David Silverstein. In 2011, while reviewing some of his own medical bills, David realized something was truly amiss in American healthcare, but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it. So, rather than simply paying the often confusing and seemingly outrageous bills, he started disputing them. After some success forcing medical providers (mostly hospitals and hospital-affiliated physicians) to answer his questions and to walk away from their bills, David formed a non-profit called Broken Healthcare to help others do the same. Over the years, Broken Healthcare’s “Denial-of-Payment” system became a model of revolt, empowering many patients to stand up for themselves and fight back against predatory billing.