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.
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
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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.
https://www.valenzhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kevin-Web-Graphic-v7.png432600ajtemplinhttps://www.valenzhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/valenz-logo-1-23-3.pngajtemplin2024-10-18 15:09:522025-01-06 19:50:54Vālenz® Health Announces Promotion of Kevin O’Donnell to EVP, Solution Strategy & Expansion
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.
https://www.valenzhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SOC-2-Web-Graphic-Test-6.png432600ajtemplinhttps://www.valenzhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/valenz-logo-1-23-3.pngajtemplin2024-10-10 18:22:022024-10-10 21:44:45Vālenz® Health Provider Credentialing Solution VPoint™ Attains SOC 2 Type II Certification for Strong Data Security
Vālenz® Health Appoints Four Top Leaders from Healthcare Bluebook™ to Executive Team
/in Announcements, Featured, Press/by Jameson WalshVālenz® 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
/in Announcements, Featured, Press/by ajtemplinVālenz® 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 ajtemplinVālenz® 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.