Fully automated and integrated company means healthcare payors will realize future benefits
HealthEdge Software, a provider of the industry’s leading integrated financial, administrative and clinical platform for health insurers, HealthRulesPayor, announced the acquisition of The Burgess Group, LLC (“Burgess”), an innovative payment integrity software company focused on improving healthcare payment operations through technology.
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HealthEdge acquires The Burgess Group
Complementary Products Result in a Leading Solutions Combination
Steve Krupa, HealthEdge Chief Executive Officer, and Greg Burgess, Founder and President of The Burgess Group, built a strong relationship around their mutual passion to automate the transactional systems for health plan claims processing and payments through a cloud-computing infrastructure.
“Greg and I realized our like-minded mission to enhance operational efficiency for health plans through our next-generation platforms would create momentum in the healthcare payor marketplace,” said Steve Krupa. “We both spearhead entrepreneurial and innovation-driven organizations, and our shared desire to impact healthcare by overcoming the limitations of current solutions, have resulted in our coming together to create a robust, thriving, growth-oriented company built on disruptive healthcare payor technology.”
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“After 23 years, I’ve discovered a partner in Steve and the HealthEdge team, who understand our passion in designing and delivering the industry’s first cloud-native payment integrity ecosystem,” said Greg Burgess. “Working together we will accelerate our shared vision to challenge the inefficient status quo in claims administration. As one combined company, we can offer our existing complementary solutions while we collaborate to introduce another industry first: an end-to-end unified claims processing, payment integrity, and adjudication platform capable of delivering first pass payment accuracy to providers. By harnessing cloud technologies, we will bring data integration, reimbursement accuracy and accountability, to an elevated level of precision, empowering the industry to realize point of service payments.”
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