Michael Saito has been brought on board by Cylerity as the organization broadens its platform throughout healthcare and financial sectors.
MADISON, WI, UNITED STATES, September 23, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Cylerity has appointed Michael Saito, previously with Epic, to head operations and regulatory compliance as the healthcare fintech firm extends its platform among healthcare providers, health systems, and financial entities.
Why this matters: Healthcare organizations routinely provide care and accumulate expenses weeks or even months before they receive reimbursement. Cylerity is developing infrastructure that makes future healthcare cash flows more usable as a source of working capital.
The company integrates claims, reimbursement, operational, and banking data to enable healthcare organizations to tap into liquidity while they await payment from Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial insurers. Cylerity does not factor receivables; instead, it assists banks in better understanding and underwriting the financial language of healthcare. Higher-fidelity financial data lowers risk, and healthcare professionals benefit from reduced working capital costs through Cylerity’s banking partners.
As Cylerity grows, the challenge is increasingly operational as well as technical: healthcare data, reimbursement rules, banking controls, provider workflows, and regulatory requirements must all function together. Saito will take charge of that layer.
“Healthcare finance is an orchestration problem,” said Ryan Wheeler, founder and CEO of Cylerity. “Clinical systems, claims, payors, banks and regulatory requirements all have to work together. Michael understands how complex healthcare organizations actually operate, and that becomes increasingly important as we scale.”
At Epic, Saito operationalized nationwide health data exchange frameworks, applying his deep understanding of the complex regulatory and operating environment of healthcare to lead the effort that gave large hospitals and clinics across the country a path to participate. That work now facilitates the exchange of hundreds of millions of patient records for treatment every year. At Cylerity, he will apply that same rigor to the company’s work at the intersection of healthcare and finance, beginning with scaling its operational governance and compliance program, to reinforce Cylerity’s standing as a trusted partner to the healthcare and financial institutions it serves.
The broader context: Healthcare has spent decades digitizing clinical and reimbursement workflows, but the financing of those workflows remains comparatively static.
Cylerity’s thesis holds that healthcare reimbursement data can support a more dynamic financial infrastructure, allowing capital availability to align more closely with the underlying value and timing of healthcare cash flows.
“Epic helped build much of the digital infrastructure through which healthcare operates,” Wheeler said. “We’re building infrastructure that connects those healthcare workflows to the financial system. Michael will help us make that connection operationally durable and scalable.”
What we’re tracking: Cylerity is moving beyond simply accelerating individual claims toward a broader financial infrastructure layer that links healthcare organizations and capital markets.
That raises the stakes around regulatory architecture, data governance, and operational controls, particularly as the company works with larger health systems, more sophisticated banking partners, and increasingly complex reimbursement structures.
The central question is whether healthcare claims, cash reimbursement, and supply spend data can ultimately support a more flexible, transparent, and scalable form of healthcare working-capital finance.
Cylerity is betting that it can.
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