About
Rene Castillo, Founder and Managing Principal.
Founder Experience: Key Facts
Managed Care Portfolio
$2.5B
Years of Managed-Care Experience
3
Therapy Categories, Provider-Side Contracting Experience
CAR-T · TIL · HSC · SPK
Founder's prior professional experience, distinct from HealthPulse firm-level engagement history. Full attribution and dates below.
Rene Castillo is the Founder and Managing Principal of HealthPulse Advisors LLC. HealthPulse was built on a specific insight: reimbursement gaps in complex care are structural features of payer contract design, tested through direct provider-side experience negotiating against that design.
HealthPulse approaches reimbursement from the provider side, sharpened by direct experience negotiating and structuring advanced-therapy and managed-care contracts directly with payers. That vantage point, seeing exactly where payer contract terms and actual payment diverge, is built directly into the firm's methodology.
Founder's Prior Professional Experience Includes
United States Air Force
Medical Service Corps, Healthcare Operations (June 2020–2023)
Served as a healthcare administrator within the Air Force Medical Service, supporting military treatment facility operations as part of the Medical Service Corps.
Harvard Medical School
Relationship Development Manager, MAIDA Initiative (2024–2025)
Led global partnership development for the Medical AI Data for All initiative at the Rajpurkar Lab, managing hospital and health-system relationships on IRB, governance, and regulatory readiness.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Associate Research Fellow (2023–2024)
Health-economics research on the forces shaping healthcare costs, digital-health outcomes, and provider-payment equity.
UCHealth
Managed Care, $2.5B Portfolio (2023–2025)
Provider-side managed-care experience across CAR-T, TIL, HSC transplant, and solid-organ programs; negotiated single-case agreements and outlier-payment structures directly with payers.
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