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Five Radnor Corporate Center
100 Matsonford Road, #5-444
Wayne, PA 19087
United States of America
Toll-Free: (866) 762-4455
Main Fax: (888) 452-6512
Vālenz® Health Announces Promotion of Kevin O’Donnell to EVP, Solution Strategy & Expansion
/in Announcements, Featured, Press/by Jessica LahaskyVālenz® 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
/in Announcements, Featured, Press/by Jessica LahaskyVālenz® 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
/in Announcements, Featured, Press/by Jessica LahaskyThis 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.”