Lyric Named to Fast Company's List of the World's Most Innovative Companies of 2026

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Lyric, a leader in AI-powered payment accuracy for health plans, today announced it has been named on Fast Company 's list of the World's Most Innovative Companies of 2026 in the Healthcare category.

The recognition reflects Lyric's 35 years of claims expertise and the engineering discipline behind its modern payment accuracy platforms. Lyric currently reviews more than 50% of claims nationwide, covering 190 million Americans .

"The stakes of getting it wrong are real for health plans, for providers, and for the people whose care depends on accurate payments. The pace of innovation at Lyric right now is unlike anything in our history. In the last two years, we've rebuilt the infrastructure of payment accuracy from the ground up. What used to take months now takes days,” said Halsey Wise, Chief Executive Officer of Lyric.

The World’s Most Innovative Companies is Fast Company ’s hallmark franchise. To determine honorees, Fast Company ’s editors and writers review companies driving progress around the world and across industries, evaluating thousands of submissions through a competitive application process. The result is a globe-spanning guide to innovation today, from early-stage startups to some of the most valuable companies in the world.

“Our list of the Most Innovative Companies is about spotlighting organizations that don’t just adapt to change—they drive it,” said Brendan Vaughan, editor-in-chief of Fast Company. “The companies we honor this year are redefining what leadership looks like in 2026, pairing bold ideas with measurable impact and turning breakthrough innovation into real-world value. They are setting the pace for their industries and offering a blueprint for what sustained innovation can achieve.”

Lyric42 is at the center of that work. Lyric42 centralizes payment accuracy data in a single platform for plans and tracks and links cases, so payers and clinicians can see a complete picture of a patient's history and payment responsibilities. It processes claims using Lyric's proprietary rules engine and uses AI to surface, explain, and trace its recommendations. Every finding Lyric delivers has a human behind it. That’s how Lyric has earned 35 years of trust with the country’s leading health plans.

"The waste in this system has a human cost, and it's the result of complexity that has outpaced the tools built to manage it. We built Lyric42 in close partnership with health plans who understand that better than anyone. Every finding is traceable. Every recommendation is explainable. Our AI operates within clearly defined boundaries with human experts in the loop," said Yevgeny German, Chief Technology Officer and head of engineering and platform development at Lyric.

Lyric42 gives health plans real-time visibility into where healthcare spending is going, why it's going there, and what to do about it. That's cost-of-care intelligence: a shift from evaluating claims to understanding them.

“Our AI-first Lyric42 platform represents the future of payment accuracy. We are pioneering predictive signal intelligence that enables payment accuracy to shift from reactive to proactive, identifying anomalies as they occur. This recognition from Fast Company reflects the velocity of our innovation and momentum but not our ceiling. Our best is yet to come as we continue to invest in building Lyric into one of the most innovative, impactful, and important companies in healthtech," said Halsey Wise, Chief Executive Officer of Lyric.

The full list of Fast Company ’s Most Innovative Companies honorees can now be found at fastcompany.com. It will also be available on newsstands beginning March 31, 2026.

About Lyric

Lyric is a payment integrity technology company trusted by America’s leading health plans at the start of the claims payment workflow. Its platform is grounded in 35+ years of clinical and payment accuracy expertise and supports real-time integrations that cover 190 million lives. Lyric helps reduce healthcare spending waste and support fast, accurate payments with a transparent rationale and human oversight.

About Fast Company

Fast Company is the only media brand fully dedicated to the vital intersection of business, innovation, and design, engaging the most influential leaders, companies, and thinkers on the future of business. Headquartered in New York City, Fast Company is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with fellow business publication Inc. For more information, please visit fastcompany.com.

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