Azara Healthcare, a Burlington, Massachusetts, company that sells population health and quality reporting software to community health centers and other safety-net providers, announced on June 4, 2026 that it had acquired Advocatia, a digital platform that helps people apply for public benefits. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Azara is combining Advocatia with its DRVS analytics platform to offer what it calls the first end-to-end Medicaid coverage retention product: DRVS identifies patients at risk of losing coverage, and Advocatia walks them through the application or renewal.
The combined product was made available to Azara clients immediately, with more features planned through 2026 and into 2027. OM Partners acted as exclusive financial adviser to Advocatia Solutions.
What Advocatia built
Advocatia was founded in 2016. Its self-service platform screens people for eligibility in as little as 60 seconds and guides them through enrollment in Medicaid, SNAP and more than 1,000 other local and national benefit programs, with tools to collect documents, finish applications and follow up. It works in 75 languages and has operated in all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C.
The company says more than 5 million people have used the platform, which carries an average rating of 4.9 out of 5. It reports that 93% of users who start an application submit it, that 86% of submitted applications are approved, and that it cuts application time by up to 33%. These figures were supplied by the company.
Advocatia's customers have been hospitals, providers and health plans. Ryan Brebner is its co-founder and chief executive.
“Advocatia was built on the simple belief that no one should lose coverage because the process is too hard to navigate.”
Why Azara is buying
The deal is a response to Medicaid changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, known as HR.1. Azara cited projections that more than 7.6 million Americans will lose Medicaid coverage by 2034, and noted that 80-hour monthly work requirements take effect in January 2027.
Safety-net providers bear the cost when patients lose insurance. Azara cited estimates that hospitals delivered more than $36 billion a year in uncompensated care to uninsured patients over the past three years. The National Association of Community Health Centers projects that HR.1 will cut community health center revenue by $7 billion a year, which it says could lead to 1,800 site closures and 34,000 job losses.
Jeff Brandes, Azara's president and chief executive, said clients had been asking for months for help making sure patients who are still eligible re-enroll before they lose coverage, and that adding Advocatia to DRVS gives them one workflow from identifying a patient to completed coverage.
How the combined product works
Under the combined offering, health centers use DRVS registries and risk scores to find and rank patients at risk of losing coverage, then reach them through automated outreach across several channels. Patients complete enrollment or renewal in Advocatia's app, which also collects income verification and documents needed for redeterminations and the new work requirement reporting. Staff and navigators can see each patient's progress and step in when someone stalls.
Brebner said joining Azara lets Advocatia reach far more people than it could alone, because Azara already works with the providers and health plans serving the communities Advocatia was built for. Azara scheduled a webinar on June 24, 2026 to present the combined product.
Azara's reach
Azara says its software is used by 65% of U.S. Federally Qualified Health Centers and covers more than 50 million Americans. Its products, including DRVS, Azara Care Connect and Azara Patient Outreach, serve more than 1,000 safety-net organisations, including community health centers, rural and critical access hospitals, primary care associations, clinically integrated networks and health plans in all 50 states. It has been named Best in KLAS four times.
Advocatia's own listing in the Association for Community Affiliated Plans vendor directory now describes it as part of Azara Healthcare. The companies did not disclose Advocatia's funding history, headcount or the price Azara paid.
