Codes Health Reviews
Codes Health is a Brooklyn-based, Y Combinator-backed retrieval company (founded 2024) that pairs AI retrieval with human-verified record review, and its breach-of-care flagging is useful for med-mal screening. Its site lists a 1 to 2 week average turnaround, no published pricing, and it does not publicly document third-party review listings. Firms that need records faster, provider discovery, or public pricing usually shortlist LlamaLab, where records average 4 days and the rate is published.
What is Codes Health?
Codes Health was founded in 2024, went through Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch, and is based in Brooklyn. It retrieves medical, billing, and imaging records for plaintiff firms in all 50 states, using what it describes as a mix of AI and human intervention, and layers on AI case insights (breach-of-care flags, diagnoses, future expenses) that humans verify. In July 2026 it announced a partnership that embeds its retrieval inside Filevine case files.
What its own materials say about speed: the homepage lists a 1 to 2 week average turnaround, its process page describes retrieval across days 1 to 14, and its comparison blog states plainly that it "does not offer same-day retrieval" and delivers complete records "in a couple of weeks." Its completeness checking is described as verifying returned records against the request's date ranges, record types, and provider lists, and cross-referencing history across known treatment sites.
What to check before buying: Codes Health does not publish a rate card (pricing runs through a demo), and it does not publicly document review listings on G2, Capterra, or Trustpilot; the customer quotes on its site are self-published. This review is based on Codes Health's own website and blog, its Y Combinator profile, and the Filevine partnership announcements, all linked in the sources below.
How Codes Health compares with LlamaLab
Codes Health is a Brooklyn-based, Y Combinator-backed medical record retrieval company (founded 2024) that pairs agentic AI retrieval with human-verified record review for plaintiff firms.
| Capability | LlamaLab | Codes Health |
|---|---|---|
| Category focus | AI-native medical evidence for plaintiff firms | AI retrieval + human-verified record review for plaintiff firms |
| Track record | Trusted by 250+ law firms; AI-native since 2024 | Founded 2024 (Y Combinator S24), Brooklyn |
| Retrieval turnaround | 4 days on average; 30 to 40% of records back same day | 1 to 2 weeks average (per its site); no same-day retrieval per its own comparisons |
| Facility relationships | Healthcare-to-healthcare entity; direct facility partnerships move requests past standard vendor queues | Does not publicly document healthcare-entity status or facility partnerships |
| Provider discovery | Reverse search runs insurance claims data to find providers clients never listed; 4M+ facility network | Claims-network connections; missing-record checks run against known treatment sites and the providers on your request |
| Case qualification | Licensed clinical team qualifies proof of injury in under 7 days | AI insights verified by humans (breach-of-care flags, chronologies); no licensed-clinician qualification decision publicly documented |
| Portfolio / AI queries | Plain-English queries for complex medical records across the entire portfolio | Per-case summaries and chronologies |
| Pricing & recoverability | Public pricing: $50 per facility request, retrieval-only billing, fully recoverable, optional pay-only-for-qualified-cases model | No public rate card; demo-based |
| Primary audience | Personal injury & mass tort plaintiff firms wanting speed, scale, and medical-grade technology | Plaintiff firms: PI, mass torts, med-mal |
| HIPAA / security | HIPAA-compliant under BAA, SOC 2 Type 2, bank-level encryption | HIPAA, AES-256, BAAs, penetration testing (per its site) |
Competitor details come from public company materials (see sources). Figures a vendor does not publish are marked "not publicly disclosed."
Where Codes Health stands out
Human-verified AI review
Its AI extracts case insights such as breach-of-care flags, diagnoses, and future expenses, with human verification before results reach your team (per its site).
Breach-of-care flagging for med-mal
Standard-of-care insights are rare among retrieval vendors and matter most in medical malpractice screening.
Embedded in Filevine
A partnership announced July 13, 2026 embeds requests, status tracking, and record delivery inside Filevine case files.
Pre-submission error checking
Its AI checks authorizations, date ranges, and provider-specific requirements before submission to reduce preventable rejections (per its site).
Firms evaluating Codes Health often mention multi-week waits and hard-to-reach support for a young retrieval vendor.
Where LlamaLab stands out
4-day average retrieval
Records come back in 4 days on average, and 30 to 40% arrive the same day. On Camp Lejeune, the same system cut VA record retrieval from 90 days to 4.
Direct facility relationships
LlamaLab submits requests as a healthcare organization, and direct hospital and facility partnerships move those requests past standard vendor queues. That access is why records can come back the same day.
Reverse provider discovery
Reverse search runs insurance claims data against a proprietary network of 4M+ facilities and finds the specialists, urgent-care visits, and prior treatment clients forget, so requests stop depending on client memory alone.
Clinical case qualification
A licensed clinical team confirms proof of injury, not just page counts, backed by clinical AI that scored 98% on physician board exams. On a PFAS portfolio, LlamaLab qualified 10,000 cases in three weeks at an 84% qualification rate.
Mass tort portfolio intelligence
Query thousands of cases in plain English to qualify and re-qualify claimants. On the last large engagement, docket queries surfaced 5 to 10 percent more clients eligible for other litigations.
Recoverable, retrieval-only pricing
Pricing is public: $50 per facility request, with no platform, license, or technology fees, so every dollar stays a recoverable case expense instead of firm overhead. Optional models let firms pay only for the cases that qualify.
Case management integrations
LlamaLab integrates with Litify, SmartAdvocate, Needles, and Clio, and any other case management system can connect through the public Integration Guide at docs.llamalab.ai, so retrieval starts from the matter.
Feature by feature
Retrieval speed: 4 days on average vs 1 to 2 weeks
Codes Health's homepage lists a 1 to 2 week average turnaround, and its own comparison posts state it does not offer same-day retrieval and delivers "in a couple of weeks." LlamaLab gets records back in 4 days on average, and 30 to 40% come back same day. Both numbers come straight from each company's own materials. The gap is the request channel: LlamaLab submits as a healthcare organization, and direct facility partnerships move its requests past the vendor queues other services wait in.
Completeness comes from discovery, not from waiting longer
Codes Health argues that speed-first retrieval risks incomplete records. That argument skips a step: completeness depends on knowing every provider, and its own materials describe checking completeness against known treatment sites and the provider list on your request. LlamaLab runs the client's insurance claims data to find the providers nobody wrote down at intake, then a licensed clinician confirms proof of injury. A two-week wait doesn't find a provider nobody asked for. When a national mass tort firm sent LlamaLab 100 cases it couldn't qualify because the records were unreachable (closed facilities, clients who couldn't remember where they treated), that discovery-first approach qualified about 40 of them.
Analysis: verified insights vs clinical qualification
Codes Health's human-verified breach-of-care and future-expense flags are real and useful, especially for med-mal screening. LlamaLab's analysis ends in a decision: a licensed clinical team signs off on proof of injury in under 7 days, which is what mass tort funders and co-counsel ask to see. When one firm paired that review with its internal team, its qualification rate went from 65% to 84%.
Pricing transparency
Codes Health doesn't publish a rate card; pricing runs through a demo. LlamaLab publishes pricing: $50 per facility request, retrieval-only billing, and your firm passes the invoice through at settlement as a recoverable case expense.
Case management integrations
Codes Health publicly documents a Filevine partnership and describes custom CRM integrations for high-volume customers. We are not aware of a Litify integration for Codes Health. LlamaLab integrates with Litify, SmartAdvocate, Needles, and Clio, and any other case management system can integrate through the public Integration Guide at docs.llamalab.ai, so retrieval starts from the matter.
Pricing comparison
Codes Health doesn't publish a rate card; pricing runs through a demo call. LlamaLab publishes pricing at $50 per facility request with retrieval-only billing, and the whole invoice stays recoverable.
LlamaLab
- $50 per facility request for medical and billing records, published publicly
- Case setup fee of $150 on Basic, waived on Unlimited
- Retrieval-only billing stays a recoverable case expense, not firm overhead
- Optional models let firms pay only for cases that qualify
Codes Health
No public rate card; demo-based
Per public materials at the time of writing (see sources).
Which one fits your firm?
When to choose Codes Health
- Human-verified breach-of-care flagging is the feature your med-mal screening needs.
- Your firm runs on Filevine and wants requests and delivery embedded in the case file.
- A 1 to 2 week average turnaround fits your case timelines.
When to choose LlamaLab
- Records gate your demands and filings and you need them in days, not weeks.
- Clients don't remember every provider, so you need discovery from insurance data rather than checks against the request list.
- You want a licensed clinician's proof-of-injury decision at PI and mass tort scale.
- You want published pricing that stays a recoverable case expense.
- You're qualifying a mass tort docket and need thousands of decisions in weeks.
- You run Litify, SmartAdvocate, Needles, or Clio and want retrieval wired into that stack.
Real impact across major mass torts
How firms use LlamaLab to process thousands of cases faster.
- VA records delivered in 4 days on average vs. 90+ day industry standard
- Cut one firm's budgeted processing time from 2 years to 6 months
- Processed 10,000 cases from no records to evidence packages in 3 weeks with an 84% qualification rate
- Discovered exposure records linking clients to contaminated water sources
- Raised proof-of-injury rate 20% by correcting teams' misinterpretation of records
- Retrieved medical records going back 25+ years
Codes Health reviews, answered
Yes. Codes Health is a real, venture-backed company: founded 2024, Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch, based in Brooklyn, with a publicly announced Filevine partnership (July 2026). It retrieves records in all 50 states, per its site.
Its homepage lists a 1 to 2 week average turnaround and its process page describes days 1 to 14 for retrieval. Its own comparison posts state it does not offer same-day retrieval. For comparison, LlamaLab averages 4 days with 30 to 40% of records back same day.
Codes Health does not publish a rate card; its site routes pricing through a demo call. If you want to price a case before committing, LlamaLab publishes rates at $50 per facility request with retrieval-only, recoverable billing.
Codes Health does not publicly document listings on G2, Capterra, or Trustpilot as of this writing. The testimonials on its website are self-published customer quotes from firms like Daly & Black and Louis Law Firm.
The human-verified AI review is the standout: breach-of-care flags, buried diagnoses, and future-expense extraction, all checked by a person before delivery. For medical malpractice screening that matters. The Filevine embed is convenient too if your firm lives in Filevine.
For plaintiff firms, LlamaLab is the closest alternative that covers retrieval plus analysis, with 4-day average retrieval, reverse provider discovery, clinical qualification, and published recoverable pricing. Legacy options include American Retrieval and U.S. Legal Support; see our comparison pages for both.
For med-mal firms that want human-verified breach-of-care flagging inside Filevine, Codes Health is a strong pick. For speed (4 days average vs 1 to 2 weeks), provider discovery from insurance data, clinical proof-of-injury qualification, and public pricing, LlamaLab leads. See the full comparison.
Sources
- Codes Health: Home (turnaround, review, security)
- Y Combinator: Codes Health (founded 2024, S24)
- PRNewswire: Filevine partners with Codes Health (July 13, 2026)
- Filevine: partnership announcement
- Codes Health blog: "does not offer same-day retrieval... a couple of weeks"
- Codes Health blog: completeness checked against provider lists; custom CRM for high-volume
- LlamaLab: public pricing
- LlamaLab: Litify integration
- LlamaLab: Integration Guide
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