Vālenz Health® Names Bryan Perler Chief Financial Officer

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Vālenz Health® is pleased to announce that Bryan Perler has been named Chief Financial Officer. 

A seasoned finance executive, Perler brings nearly 25 years of experience at high-growth, private equity-backed technology companies in the financial services and healthcare industries to his current role at Valenz. Skilled in strategic accounting and finance and passionate about transforming healthcare, he is dedicated to “bending the cost curve” and simplifying the healthcare journey for consumers. 

“We are both thrilled and fortunate to have Bryan join the Valenz executive team during this exciting period of growth,” said Rob Gelb, Chief Executive Officer at Valenz. “Bryan brings meaningful executive expertise in the tech-enabled healthcare sector and represents a tremendous addition of talent to our executive team as he leads our finance team through an accelerated and expansive series of growth opportunities ahead.”   

Perler’s hiring comes on the heels of the company’s transformative 2024 acquisition of Healthcare Bluebook™, an industry-leading healthcare cost and quality navigation platform. 

Previously, Perler served as the Chief Financial and Administrative Officer at Icario and at Sapphire Digital, where he was responsible for leading the accounting and finance, legal, compliance, corporate technology, and human resources teams. 

Perler graduated with honors and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Lehigh University and currently resides in New Jersey. As Chief Financial Officer, Perler joins the Valenz executive team, where he will play a pivotal role in driving financial strategy, supporting the company’s continued growth, and ensuring long-term value delivery for its diverse healthcare clients. 

Learn more about the Valenz executive team by visiting valenzhealth.com/about/leadership/. 

About Vālenz Health®

Vālenz Health® is the platform to simplify healthcare — the destination for employers, payers, providers, and members to reduce costs, improve quality, and elevate the healthcare experience. The Valenz mindset and culture of innovation combine to create a distinctly different approach to an inefficient, uninspired health system. With fully integrated solutions, Valenz engages early and often to execute across the entire patient journey — from care navigation and management to payment integrity, plan performance and provider verification. With a 99% client retention rate, we elevate expectations to a new level of efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency where smarter, better, faster healthcare is possible. For more information, visit valenzhealth.com.

Vālenz Health® Names Heather Wiehe Chief Legal Officer

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Vālenz Health® is pleased to announce that Heather Wiehe has been named Chief Legal Officer. 

Wiehe first joined Valenz as Vice President of Legal and Compliance in April 2024, bringing more than 15 years of experience navigating complex legal landscapes and providing strategic counsel to businesses in the healthcare and insurance industries. Her background in conducting due diligence for mergers, mitigating healthcare regulatory risk, contracting complex business deals, and implementing effective compliance programs has helped her address intricate legal challenges and generate positive outcomes for Valenz. 

“Heather has been an invaluable part of the Valenz team since joining us last year, and we are thrilled to have her leading the legal and compliance teams,” said Madeline Cashdollar, Chief People Officer at Valenz. “Her leadership and expertise have already driven meaningful progress, and we look forward to the continued significant contributions she will make as Chief Legal Officer.” 

A seasoned legal professional, Wiehe previously served as a legal counsel for brands including Collective Health and Superior Dental Care, the latter a Medical Mutual Company at which she documented and negotiated multiple contracts for a network of 250 vendors, 600 business associates, and 8,000 providers. She brings a personal passion for safeguarding organizations while simultaneously fostering a culture of integrity and compliance. 

Wiehe earned a doctorate degree in law from the University of Dayton School of Law and currently resides in the Dayton, Ohio, metropolitan area. 

Learn more about the Valenz executive team by visiting valenzhealth.com/about/leadership/. 

About Vālenz Health®

Vālenz Health® is the platform to simplify healthcare — the destination for employers, payers, providers and members to reduce costs, improve quality, and elevate the healthcare experience. The Valenz mindset and culture of innovation combine to create a distinctly different approach to an inefficient, uninspired health system. With fully integrated solutions, Valenz engages early and often to execute across the entire patient journey — from care navigation and management to payment integrity, plan performance and provider verification. With a 99% client retention rate, we elevate expectations to a new level of efficiency, effectiveness and transparency where smarter, better, faster healthcare is possible. For more information, visit valenzhealth.com.

Vālenz® Health Names Anthony Naes Chief Client Officer

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Vālenz® Health is pleased to announce that Anthony Naes has been named Chief Client Officer.

Naes joined Valenz with the acquisition of Healthcare Bluebook™  in July 2024, bringing together the companies’ complementary services as a one-of-a-kind member engagement and digital “front door” experience and payment integrity data platform. He served as Senior Vice President of Sales at Healthcare Bluebook, where he led go-to-market teams to help brokers, employers and third-party administrators lower medical benefits spend and improve quality of care for health plan members.

“Anthony brings a wealth of market knowledge to his new role, along with demonstrated sales acumen, natural leadership skills and a passion for mentoring,” said Nathan Nelson, Chief Growth Officer at Valenz. “Leading our client service function, Anthony will foster and grow our customer relationships while continuing to deliver on the unmet and underserved needs of our clients across the self-insurance industry.”

A dedicated client service and sales leader, Naes joined Healthcare Bluebook in 2020 as Regional Sales Director before being promoted to Senior Vice President of Sales. He brings expertise in multiple growth areas, including market planning and positioning, multichannel sales distribution, technology implementation and integration, and new market launches. Naes has extensive experience in the employee benefits space, with previous roles at Alight Solutions and Liazon Corp. He earned a degree in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and currently resides in the Denver area. In his role as Chief Client Officer, Naes joins the Valenz executive team, focusing on supporting the company’s diverse roster of healthcare clients.

Learn more about the Valenz executive team by visiting valenzhealth.com/about/leadership/.

About Vālenz® Health

Vālenz® Health is the platform to simplify healthcare — the destination for employers, payers, providers and members to reduce costs, improve quality, and elevate the healthcare experience. The Valenz mindset and culture of innovation combine to create a distinctly different approach to an inefficient, uninspired health system. With fully integrated solutions, Valenz engages early and often to execute across the entire patient journey — from care navigation and management to payment integrity, plan performance and provider verification. With a 99% client retention rate, we elevate expectations to a new level of efficiency, effectiveness and transparency where smarter, better, faster healthcare is possible. For more information, visit valenzhealth.com.

Vālenz® Health Appoints Four Top Leaders from Healthcare Bluebook™ to Executive Team

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Vālenz® Health announces that four top leaders from Healthcare Bluebook™ have joined its executive team after the company’s recent acquisition: Mike O’Neil, Bill Kampine, Erik Nicholson and Zack Samples.

O’Neil assumes the role of Chief Strategy Officer at Valenz after 12 years with Healthcare Bluebook, most recently as Chief Executive Officer. Dedicated to driving change in healthcare for more than two decades, O’Neil remains committed to protecting patients by exposing the truth and empowering choice. He works closely with employers, providers and patients to deliver outsized gains in healthcare savings, safety and service to patients and their employers.

A highly respected thought leader in healthcare cost and quality transparency, Kampine brings 25-plus years in new venture development, mergers and acquisitions, strategy, and advanced analytics to his role as Chief Innovation Officer at Valenz. He oversaw healthcare economics, innovation and strategic growth initiatives in the same position at Healthcare Bluebook, which he joined in 2008 as co-founder.

Nicholson becomes Chief Information Officer at Valenz, the same position he held at Healthcare Bluebook. With more than 25 years leading the development and implementation of strategic IT plans, he provides deep experience in building and developing cross-functional teams and overseeing operations for major business units. At Healthcare Bluebook, he spearheaded enterprise-level technology projects and standardized development and operational processes across the enterprise.

After serving as Healthcare Bluebook’s Chief Operating Officer for more than 15 years, Samples joins Valenz as Chief Transformation Officer. Leveraging his data-centric expertise in business operations for the healthcare industry, Samples led the development of the provider and pricing analytics for Healthcare Bluebook’s successful market launch, then led ongoing coordination of implementations, product delivery, data science, corporate planning and project management. Nicholson and Samples are both founding members of Healthcare Bluebook.

“Mike, Bill, Erik and Zack served as the driving force of an outstanding team that made Healthcare Bluebook the industry’s leading healthcare cost and quality navigation platform. We are thrilled to now have them officially join Valenz executive leadership,” said Rob Gelb, Chief Executive Officer. “Leveraging the collective expertise, background and innovative spirit of this group, Valenz only grows stronger as the market’s most powerful offering for optimizing the utilization of high-value healthcare.”

Valenz acquired Healthcare Bluebook in July 2024, bringing together the companies’ complementary services as a one-of-a-kind member engagement and digital “front door” experience and payment integrity data platform. Providing full transparency through America’s largest cost and quality data set, Valenz ensures unprecedented access to highly comprehensive data for improved provider selection and healthcare decision making.

“The strength of the Valenz team is central to our tremendous momentum, as together we skate to where the puck is going – empowering ourselves to address the unmet needs of the industry, solve for the challenges ahead and turn them into market-moving change,” Gelb said.

Learn more about the Valenz executive team by visiting valenzhealth.com/about/leadership/.

About Vālenz® Health

Vālenz® Health is the platform to simplify healthcare – the destination for employers, payers, providers and members to reduce costs, improve quality, and elevate the healthcare experience. The Valenz mindset and culture of innovation combine to create a distinctly different approach to an inefficient, uninspired health system. With fully integrated solutions, Valenz engages early and often to execute across the entire patient journey – from care navigation and management to payment integrity, plan performance and provider verification. With a 99% client retention rate, we elevate expectations to a new level of efficiency, effectiveness and transparency where smarter, better, faster healthcare is possible. For more information, visit valenzhealth.com

Vālenz® Health Announces Promotion of Kevin O’Donnell to EVP, Solution Strategy & Expansion

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Vālenz® Health is pleased to announce the promotion of Kevin O’Donnell, MPA, to Executive Vice President, Solution Strategy & Expansion.

O’Donnell leads the expansion and integration of Valenz Health platform solutions for brokers, providers and payers, leveraging more than a decade of expertise in operations, change management, payment integrity and claims quality. A member of the senior leadership team since joining Valenz Health in 2022, O’Donnell has an extensive background with healthcare-related organizations, providing advisory and strategy services, project management and implementation support.

“Kevin is a tremendous leader who consistently delivers on our brand promise: engage early and often for smarter, better, faster, healthcare,” said Nathan Nelson, Chief Revenue Officer. “He brings a self-motivated, entrepreneurial approach with an ability to quickly identify opportunities and develop recommendations to resolve issues and manage risks. In his new role, Kevin further leverages his vision and creative mindset to simplify healthcare.”

At Valenz Health, O’Donnell has also served as Senior Vice President, Product & Marketing, and Vice President, Enterprise Solutions. He has excelled in expanding how Valenz Health delivers its integrated suite solutions for the self-insurance industry, driving innovations and leading marketing initiatives to increase company visibility and growth.

O’Donnell, who is based in Newark, Del., previously served in senior roles with Evolent Health and Navigant. He holds a master’s degree in public administration with an emphasis in health and human services from the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management.

About Vālenz® Health

Vālenz® Health is the platform to simplify healthcare – the destination for employers, payers, providers and members to reduce costs, improve quality, and elevate the healthcare experience. The Valenz Health mindset and culture of innovation combine to create a distinctly different approach to an inefficient, uninspired health system. With fully integrated solutions, Valenz Health engages early and often to execute across the entire patient journey – from care navigation and management to payment integrity, plan performance and provider verification. With a 99% client retention rate, we elevate expectations to a new level of efficiency, effectiveness and transparency where smarter, better, faster healthcare is possible.

Vālenz® Health Provider Credentialing Solution VPoint™ Attains SOC 2 Type II Certification for Strong Data Security

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Vālenz® Health, a leading platform of integrated cost containment and payment integrity solutions, announces that its VPoint™ provider credentialing solution has attained SOC 2 Type II security certification. This demonstrates Valenz Health’s strong commitment to data security, verifying that the necessary internal controls and processes are in place to significantly minimize risk of data breaches and other costly vulnerabilities.

The SOC 2 audit provides an independent, third-party validation that a service organization’s information security practices meet the high industry standards stipulated by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). SOC 2 Type II reports are the most comprehensive certification within the SOC protocol.

The rigorous, long-term audit tests an organization’s non-financial reporting controls in relation to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of a system. The SOC 2 Type II report for VPoint, delivered by KirkpatrickPrice, verifies the suitability of the design and operating effectiveness of Valenz Health’s internal controls to meet the standards for these criteria as part of its high-quality client services.

“We are proud to attain this significant security certification, as it underscores our unwavering commitment to protecting sensitive customer and partner data,” said Srini Achukola, Chief Information Officer of Valenz Health. “In an increasingly data-driven healthcare industry, the SOC 2 Type II attestation is critical to establishing transparency and trust in today’s market.”

“The SOC 2 audit is based on the Trust Services Criteria,” said Joseph Kirkpatrick, President of KirkpatrickPrice. “With its VPoint solution, Valenz Health delivers trust-based services to its clients, and by communicating the results of this audit, its clients can be assured of their reliance on VPoint’s controls.”

About Vālenz® Health

Vālenz® Health is the platform to simplify healthcare – the destination for employers, payers, providers and members to reduce costs, improve quality, and elevate the healthcare experience. The Valenz mindset and culture of innovation combine to create a distinctly different approach to an inefficient, uninspired health system. With fully integrated solutions, Valenz engages early and often to execute across the entire patient journey – from care navigation and management to payment integrity, plan performance and provider verification. With a 99% client retention rate, we elevate expectations to a new level of efficiency, effectiveness and transparency where smarter, better, faster healthcare is possible.

About KirkpatrickPrice

KirkpatrickPrice is a licensed CPA firm, PCI QSA, and a HITRUST CSF Assessor, registered with the PCAOB, providing assurance services to over a thousand clients in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. The firm has more than a decade of experience in information security by performing assessments, audits, and tests that strengthen information security practices and internal controls. KirkpatrickPrice most commonly performs assessments on SOC 1, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, HITRUST CSF, GDPR, ISO 27001, FISMA, and FERPA frameworks, as well as advanced-level penetration testing. For more information, visit www.kirkpatrickprice.com, follow KirkpatrickPrice on LinkedIn, or subscribe to the YouTube channel.

Celebrating Five Years of Transformative Impact in the Self-Insured Industry

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This month marks five strong, vigorous and healthy years of Vālenz® Health, serving the self-insured community with a seamless platform that yields greater transparency, flexibility and cost controls.

Leadership chose the 2019 SIIA National Conference in San Francisco to bring Valenz Health to the market. Founded in 2004 and bolstered by organic and acquisitive growth, Valenz Health came to life when four legacy businesses joined together as one singular company, with a brand promise to engage early and often for smarter, better, faster healthcare.

“The Valenz Health team is truly passionate about our vision to simplify healthcare and our mission to optimize the cost, quality and utilization of high-value healthcare for everyone,” said Rob Gelb, Chief Executive Officer. “I am proud and humbled by our company’s growth and transformative impact these past five years, and I am so excited about the next five-plus years of our journey as we advance toward the next stage of innovating healthcare.”

With a fully integrated platform of data-driven solutions, Valenz Health executes across the entire patient journey – from care navigation and management to payment integrity, plan performance and provider verification. Providing full transparency through America’s largest cost, quality and utilization data set, Valenz Health ensures unparalleled access to data for improved provider selection and healthcare decisions to meet modern member needs.

In this year of celebration, the prestigious Inc. 5000 list included Valenz Health among America’s fastest-growing private companies for the fourth time in five years. Now with a team of 600 that includes the recent acquisition of Healthcare Bluebook™, Valenz Health also expanded and opened new corporate headquarters in the Philadelphia area.

“I never fail to be amazed at our team’s ability to solve complex challenges simply and live our commitment to exploring new ways of addressing the unmet and underserved needs of our customers and their members,” Gelb said. “Our team truly lives the brand promise to engage early and often for smarter, better, faster healthcare every day. They are the reason that today we celebrate five years of tremendous experiences as Valenz Health.”

Vālenz® Health Relocates Corporate Headquarters

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After two successful decades in Phoenix, Ariz., Vālenz® Health announces the official relocation of its corporate headquarters to the suburban Philadelphia area of Radnor, Pa. The company’s new address is Five Radnor Corporate Center, 100 Matsonford Road, #5-444, Wayne, PA 19087.

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Through the acquisition of six companies since May 2022, including the recent addition of Healthcare Bluebook™, Valenz Health now has 600 team members throughout the US, with a significant presence in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, driving the need for a modern central location to support its continued and rapid growth. Valenz Health was recently featured on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the United States for the fourth time in five years.

“As we enter our fifth year as Valenz Health – with 20 years serving the self-insurance and health plan industry since our company’s founding in 2004 – this is already a time of celebration for all of us,” said Rob Gelb, Chief Executive Officer. “Our new headquarters speaks to our consistent success, and reaching these heights is just one more milestone. This move is key to further elevating our company’s operations and empowering us to do our very best work in simplifying healthcare.”

The executive team has occupied the expanded headquarters for the last few months. Many corporate officers and board members live in the East, and the Philadelphia-area location enhances access to a wide talent pool in the metropolitan and regional area to meet future staffing needs.

Valenz Health will continue to operate its Service Center in Phoenix with a team that manages accounting, finance and information technology projects. Accounts payable and invoicing will continue to be directed to the Service Center. Valenz Health also has offices and team members in Mechanicsburg, Pa.; Orange County, Calif.; Indianapolis, Ind.; and Nashville, Tenn.

About Vālenz® Health

Vālenz® Health is the platform to simplify healthcare – the destination for employers, payers, providers and members to reduce costs, improve quality, and elevate the healthcare experience. The Valenz Health mindset and culture of innovation combine to create a distinctly different approach to an inefficient, uninspired health system. With fully integrated solutions, Valenz Health engages early and often to execute across the entire patient journey – from care navigation and management to payment integrity, plan performance and provider verification. With a 99% client retention rate, we elevate expectations to a new level of efficiency, effectiveness and transparency where smarter, better, faster healthcare is possible.

Title Sponsor Vālenz® Health to Unveil Future of High-Value Care for the Self-Insured Community at SIIA 2024 National Conference

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For the third consecutive year, Vālenz® Health will serve as Title Sponsor of the Self-Insurance Institute of America (SIIA) National Conference, widely considered the largest and most influential professional gathering in the self-insured industry. 

The SIIA National Conference will be held Sept. 22-24 at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in Phoenix, Ariz. This year’s event will focus on how to “Lead” the way toward solutions that will shape the future of the self-insurance marketplace. 

“Employers, TPAs, brokers, stop loss carriers and healthcare providers are seeking a more seamless approach to solving the complexity of healthcare. At the SIIA National Conference, we look forward to sharing how we can work together to simplify healthcare,” said Rob Gelb, Chief Executive Officer of Valenz Health. “We are addressing the unmet needs of our industry by creating a simplified platform for high-value care that can yield greater transparency, flexibility and cost controls, while meeting modern member needs through a consumer-driven approach.” 

This marks the first major industry event since Valenz Health acquired Healthcare Bluebook, a leading healthcare cost and quality navigation platform, in July 2024. Attendees will have the opportunity to connect with the Valenz Health team to learn more about how the company and its customers are transforming access and outcomes by integrating Healthcare Bluebook’s cost, quality and utilization data sets and tools with curated cost-containment and contracted/non-contracted provider network solutions. 

According to Gelb, the Valenz Health single platform of integrated solutions solves the challenge of point solution fatigue. “We turned this challenge into change by listening, learning and engaging our customers, which opened the new opportunity for high-value care to take hold across the self-insured landscape,” Gelb said.  

Valenz Health has been a Diamond Member of SIIA since 2020, signifying the highest level of support for SIIA’s mission and demonstrating a leadership position in serving the needs of the self-insurance community.  

For more insight into how Valenz Health serves as a distinctly different partner with one integrated platform, connect with the team at booth 500, 601 at the conference, visit valenzhealth.com or call (866) 762-4455. 

About Vālenz® Health 

Vālenz® Health is the platform to simplify healthcare – the destination for employers, payers, providers and members to reduce costs, improve quality, and elevate the healthcare experience. The Valenz mindset and culture of innovation combine to create a distinctly different approach to an inefficient, uninspired health system. With fully integrated solutions, Valenz engages early and often to execute across the entire patient journey – from care navigation and management to payment integrity, plan performance and provider verification. With a 99% client retention rate, we elevate expectations to a new level of efficiency, effectiveness and transparency where smarter, better, faster healthcare is possible. For more information, visit valenzhealth.com. 

Care Bundles and Navigation for Better Costs and Quality

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As the costs and complexities of healthcare continue to skyrocket, the methods of pricing for provider services and the way the industry looks at care are facing a much-needed change.

Historically, providers have received separate payments for each individual service or patient treatment. This fee-for-service reimbursement model, used by many commercial payers, relies on provider networks and focuses on the quantity of services provided, rather than the total package of care and the cost and quality of those services. In addition, when coupled with the complications of insurance billing and reimbursement, fee-for-service models often lead to inflated costs for patients and providers.

Vālenz® Health believes employers can generate greater savings, appropriate utilization and higher quality of care when deploying healthcare models built on episodes of care, as demonstrated through the Valenz comprehensive range of care bundles. Although bundled pricing is not new, the Valenz model is distinctly different, as it deploys numerous reliable data sources to arrive at defensible local market-sensitive rates while driving members to high-value care.

By aggregating years of robust data from thousands of provider network cases with industry-leading sources of payment-, cost-, charge-based and clinical data sets, together with intuitive member navigation, Valenz optimizes cost, quality and utilization of care. Read more in our white paper.

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