Sample Healthcare vs Tennr (2026)
Both automate the document heavy work between a referral and a paid order, for different receivers. Sample is a workflow platform its customers design, used by diagnostics companies, oncology groups and laboratories for record abstraction, intake, eligibility, prior authorization and appeals; TELCOR bought it in April 2026 and also sells it as laboratory revenue cycle automation. Tennr is built for organizations receiving referrals, such as durable equipment suppliers and specialty providers: its model reads the packet, checks payer criteria and chases what is missing. A laboratory designing its own workflows looks at Sample. A referral receiver that wants the workflow already built looks at Tennr.
- Workflows designed per customer, with fine tuned models, named connectors and versioned lineage behind every extracted value.
- A named, dated prior authorization case at Adaptive Biotechnologies.
- Sold standalone or inside TELCOR's laboratory revenue cycle platform, including appeals and payer follow up.
- The referral workflow comes built: reading, payer criteria checks, triage and outreach to fill the gaps.
- Its own vision language model reads faxes, scans, portal submissions and handwritten orders.
- Tennr Network shows referring providers, receivers and patients where a referral stands.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Sample Healthcare and Tennr are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI Health Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Fact | Sample Healthcare | Tennr |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Healthcare Administrative Automation | Healthcare Administrative Automation |
| Headquarters | Not recorded | New York, New York |
| Website | samplehc.com | tennr.com |
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Each vendor in one paragraph
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Sample Healthcare sells AI document and workflow automation for healthcare organizations: copilots that extract, classify, summarize and reason over medical records and clinical documents, used for medical record abstraction, patient intake and eligibility, prior authorization, appeals and correspondence. The platform combines workflow design, customer-specific models fine-tuned from base models, named connectors (Kno2, Careviso, Glidian, Snowflake, Databricks, Salesforce) and observability with audit trails and versioned lineage.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Tennr automates inbound document and referral operations for the organizations that receive them. RaeLM, the company's own vision language model, reads unstructured inbound material including faxes, scanned forms, portal submissions and handwritten orders, extracts the clinical and administrative data, and the platform evaluates it against payer criteria to establish what is covered, what documentation is missing and what should happen next.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How are Sample Healthcare and Tennr priced and sold?
For Sample Healthcare, the product is sold by demo, standalone or as part of TELCOR's platform.
With Tennr, no implementation fee, contract term or minimum appears. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 23, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Sample Healthcare and Tennr handle patient data?
In Sample Healthcare's case, the home page says customers customize models using their proprietary data, that custom models learn from their workflows, that models are tailored to each organization, and that the customer owns and controls every solution built together. It does not say whether customer data also improves shared base models, how long records, documents and outputs are kept, or what is de-identified.
For Tennr, the privacy policy paraphrases the concept rather than naming the enumerated identifier method or an expert determination, and the two leave different residual risk. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 23, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which settings and specialties do Sample Healthcare and Tennr cover?
With Sample Healthcare, the company names its customers as molecular diagnostics companies, oncology groups and laboratories, and the acquirer sells the product to independent laboratories and to hospitals and health systems. Workflows named are medical record abstraction, patient intake and eligibility, prior authorization, appeals, payer follow-up and correspondence.
In Tennr's case, the span reaches beyond where the evidence sits. Hospitals, health systems and specialty pharmacy each have a page and none has a named deployment, and the referral criteria work is inherently payer and service line specific, so nothing shows what is production proven outside equipment and specialty practice. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 23, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
What evidence is published for Sample Healthcare and Tennr?
For Sample Healthcare, a dated case study (May 2025) names Adaptive Biotechnologies on prior authorization, listing a 64 percent authorization improvement, 72 percent lower headcount and a two-week deployment. A second case lists a 62 percent authorization rate improvement and one fifth of expected staffing with no customer named, and a third card still carries placeholder text.
With Tennr, the customer stories carry the detail. Home Medix reports referral processing dropping from 25 minutes to under 5, quadrupled intake volume and 32 days of staff time saved over six months. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 23, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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Sample names a SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance in its tech specs but says nothing about where its models run. Tennr publishes no security attestation and nothing on where it runs. Neither publishes a price.
Sample's ownership changed in April 2026, so confirm who supports the product and on which roadmap. Ask Tennr what its Autopilot completes without a person and how often that work is reversed.