--- description: Find out why Warris Bokhari is on the TIME100 Health 2026 list. title: TIME100 Health: Warris Bokhari image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1de94e8aadbbde03/6998ce5325f3ee764b645776/T100-Health-2026-Bokhari.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Feb 11, 2026 # Warris Bokhari Fighting health-insurance denials by [Dominique Mosbergen](/author/dominique-mosbergen/) ## Dominique Mosbergen Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Health correspondent  Courtesy of Warris Bokhari When Dr. Warris Bokhari was working for a large U.S. health insurer, he witnessed a fundamental problem first-hand: Since health insurance companies make financial products, they have competing priorities beyond patient care. U.S. insurers [deny](https://time.com/7014894/how-to-appeal-health-insurance-denial/ "undefined") some 850 million claims every year and that number is growing, Bokhari says, and fewer than 1% of people appeal. “For cancer patients, if you have a one-month delay in treatment, that's a 10% drop in your survival,” Bokhari says. Bokhari’s solution is Claimable, a startup he co-founded and launched in 2024 that uses [AI](https://time.com/7327299/using-ai-chat-gpt-tips/ "undefined") to help patients and providers appeal health-insurance denials for a growing list of conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, [asthma](https://time.com/6253592/severe-asthma-patients-anxiety-symptoms/ "undefined"), and [obesity](https://time.com/7206816/bmi-diagnose-obesity-new-method/ "undefined"). Patients pay Claimable a service fee of around $50 per appeal. So far, Bokhari puts Claimable’s success rate at 80%, recovering more than $30 million for patients to date. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-health-2026/7362601/warris-bokhari/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-health-2026/7362601/warris-bokhari/"},"headline":"Warris Bokhari","datePublished":"2026-02-11T13:01:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T01:07:10.608Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-health-2026/7362601/warris-bokhari/","keywords":["TIME100 Health 2026","list","franchise","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1de94e8aadbbde03/6998ce5325f3ee764b645776/T100-Health-2026-Bokhari.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dominique Mosbergen","jobTitle":"Health correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/dominique-mosbergen/"}],"creator":"Dominique Mosbergen","articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1de94e8aadbbde03/6998ce5325f3ee764b645776/T100-Health-2026-Bokhari.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time100-health-2026/","name":"TIME100 Health 2026"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-health-2026/7362601/warris-bokhari/","name":"Warris Bokhari"}}]}] ```