Altius Healthcare Consulting Group

Altius Healthcare Consulting Group, formerly American Healthcare Solutions, is focused on providing high-quality performance management solutions, including operational assessments and labor management initiatives, but with a new edge that will more effectively meet the ever-changing needs of hospitals and healthcare systems. Altius’ array of services include productivity assessment/benchmarking/monitoring, operational appraisals, market analysis, strategic planning, physician practice review, turnaround support and interim management.

Amare Medical Network

Amare Medical Network, headquartered in Irwin, PA, is an integrated healthcare services company with more than 15 years of experience caring for clients, patients, care providers, and employees. Amare is comprised of three divisions; Capital Healthcare Staffing, Amare Travel Nursing, and Harmony Home Care, each committed to providing compassionate and quality care.

Capital Healthcare Staffing offers per-diem and contract staffing for nurses and caregiving professionals at hospitals, long term care facilities, schools, and group homes throughout Pennsylvania. Amare Travel Nursing partners with facilities across all 50 states to equip Registered Nurses with travel nursing opportunities. Harmony Home Care delivers a wide range of home care and home healthcare services for children, adults, and their families.

BKD CPAs & Advisors

BKD National Health Care Group provides audit, tax, Medicare and third-party reimbursement consulting services to thousands of health care providers. With more than 200 professionals focused on health care and dedicated to providing unmatched client service, BKD offers insight to help health organizations improve performance, reduce risk, stay in compliance and lower costs.

Blue & Co., LLC

We are a professional service accounting firm with significant experience in healthcare. We have offices in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky and work with several clients in Western Pennsylvania.

Chessboard Consulting, Inc.

Chessboard Consulting, Inc. is a nationally-recognized firm offering a continuum of services that help clients build and maintain positive employee relations at every level of their organization. Through our four core service offerings, Chessboard Consultants support clients in their effort to build and maintain strong employee engagement, while reducing vulnerability to union organizing. Our four core service offerings are leadership training, employee relations climate assessment, strategic communication, and employee relations crisis management/union awareness and avoidance.

Corazon Inc.

Corazon is a national leader in program development for the Heart, Vascular, Neuroscience, Spine, and Orthopedic service lines. Corazon offers a full continuum of consulting, accreditation, recruitment, and interim management to provide the strategic, clinical, operational, market, and financial expertise necessary to help clients reach their highest growth potential.

Cowden Associates, Inc.

Cowden Associates, Inc. is a recognized consulting and actuarial leader in business enterprise, compensation, benefits, retirement, and Taft-Hartley consulting. Using a comprehensive total compensation approach, Cowden works with clients on an individualized basis to tailor customized solutions for each client and engagement. This individualized and interactive approach sets Cowden apart from similar, and larger consulting firms. Cowden helps clients establish and maintain high quality compensation and benefits programs to align each organization with its strategies and objectives.

In 2017, Cowden joined parent organization Acrisure, the industry’s fastest growing insurance broker, delivering high quality insurance and risk management services and solutions through its global network of agency partners.

Cura Hospitality

Cura is a professional dining service and nutrition provider for acute care hospitals and quality senior living organizations. By embracing a business partnership model based on a shared vision of true person-centered care, Cura enjoys many successful long-term relationships. Pennsylvania is the home of many of our longest client relationships, and continues to grow! Cura is proud to continue our sponsor Healthcare Council’s educational efforts in tribute and appreciation for our mutual client partners!

Fox Rothschild LLP

Fox Rothschild is a national law firm that delivers strategic and practical solutions for clients. We are innovative and entrepreneurial – a spirit that attracts some of the brightest legal talent from across the country. Home to 950 attorneys nationwide, Fox offers a team of accomplished professionals who deliver high qualify, industry-specific solutions to clients’ toughest challenges. We understand today’s competitive business environment and take a value-driven, business-minded approach to the law. With more than 70 practice areas, we provide a broad range of legal services in order to meet our clients’ needs.

Few industries undergo the type of continual transformation that defines the health care industry in the United States. Whether your company provides health care, develops information technology, researches and develops new medical drugs and devices or otherwise provides services or goods in the health care sector, you are subject to complex regulatory and business risks at multiple levels. Likewise, if you are a physician or other non-institutional provider, you need timely and practical advice that can help you not only grow your practice but also potentially avoid costly legal pitfalls. Responding to these issues with experience and personalized service has earned Fox Rothschild its reputation as a leading national health law practice. We work with our clients – locally, regionally and across the nation – carefully reviewing each situation to determine options and tailor solutions to fit the circumstances at hand and the individuals involved.

Healthworks, Inc.

Healthworks, Inc. is a Clinical Specialist Private Practice organization serving the cardiovascular and imaging specialties. Healthworks is a full-service provider of administrative, specialty nursing and technical personnel for the provision of expert cardiovascular solutions which include staffing, industry solutions, clinical education, training, quality and outcome management and abstraction services. Healthworks provides specialty nursing and technical personnel to healthcare providers in the fields of invasive and non-invasive cardiovascular services to assist with and/or perform diagnostic imaging and interventional procedures, including cardiovascular catheterizations and interventions, electrophysiology studies and procedures, interventional radiology procedures, vascular, echocardiography exams and ultrasound scanning.

K&L Gates LLP

K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with lawyers located across five continents. The firm represents leading global corporations, growth and middle-market companies, capital markets participants and entrepreneurs in every major industry group. Public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations and individuals are also represented by the firm. K & L Gates practice is a robust full market practice – cutting edge, complex and dynamic, at once regional, national and international in scope.

Leech Tishman

Leech Tishman is a firm dedicated to providing full-service commercial legal services to individuals, businesses, and institutions. We combine a deep understanding of our clients and their businesses with skilled legal counsel to find solutions. We offer legal services in alternative dispute resolution, bankruptcy & creditors’ rights, construction, corporate, employment, energy, environmental, safety & toxic torts, estates & trusts, government relations, insurance coverage & corporate risk mitigation, litigation, real estate, and taxation. We have been a proud supporter as well as counsel to the Healthcare Council. Leech Tishman attorneys have also represented numerous health care organizations of varying sizes and specialties.

Lockton

Lockton is a global risk management company that is committed to delivering expert risk management, insurance and consultative advice to help our clients become more successful. We have over 50,000 clients globally, and over 1,500 healthcare clients. Lockton’s Healthcare Network provides innovative specialty services to health care organizations across a wide range of areas – risk management, healthcare analytics, human resources, technology, employee benefits, talent management and culture. We have a 96% client retention rate and have been awarded a “Best Place to Work” for over ten consecutive years.

Paymerang

Paymerang provides streamlined invoice and payment automation solutions that bring Accounts Payable (AP) departments into the modern age. Paymerang’s solutions save AP departments hundreds of hours annually, enhance visibility, increase accuracy, improve efficiency, and earn rebates while reducing paper, fraud risks, and operating costs.

Print Tech of Western PA

Print Tech of Western PA is your trusted provider of printing, mailing, and print marketing solutions. Print Tech has been specializing in communication solutions for over 50 years and is committed to creating superior printing, graphic design, marketing materials, bindery and fulfillment services for the healthcare market. Print Tech also provides solutions for medical device, manufacturing, education, real estate, public and private, and nonprofit sectors. Print Tech is both HIPAA compliant and ISO certified.

Revecore

Revecore is a leading provider of revenue integrity solutions for underpayments, denial prevention, and complex claims reimbursement solutions for motor vehicle accident, workers’ compensation, and Veterans Affairs claims. With more than 700 employees, we serve nearly 600 hospitals across the country. Revecore offers hospitals and health systems over two decades of unrivaled technology and expert insight into the most challenging areas of revenue cycle to ensure they are appropriately reimbursed for the care they provide. In addition to being #1 Ranked in Complex Claims by KLAS, Revecore holds the distinguished HFMA Peer Review Status for underpayment recovery and complex claims solutions.

Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC

Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC (RCS) is a healthcare consulting firm specializing in hospital and physician group practice revenue cycle reviews, interim patient financial services management, virtual revenue cycle management and customized revenue-related projects. RCS offers creative and cost-effective solutions to problems related to patient access, charge capture, documentation and coding, billing, and collection of health care revenue. RCS also advises hospitals and physician practices regarding payer contract renegotiations and facilitates the strategic planning efforts of hospitals considering merger or affiliation, brokering negotiations until agreements are finalized.

Sparq Designs, LLC

Strategy Solutions, Inc.

Strategy Solutions, Inc. (SSI) is a planning and research firm with the mission “to create healthy communities.” We provide strategic planning, market research, community health needs assessment, board development and business growth services across the continuum of acute and post-acute health care.

What sets us apart? Strategy Solutions, Inc. has several distinguishing characteristics that separate us among other firms that provide similar services. Strategy Solutions, Inc. has extensive community health needs assessment, planning and program development/evaluation experience. We also have extensive product/market positioning experience that supports strategic business planning. While we provide research and planning consulting services, we will also teach organizations how to build their internal planning and research capabilities so that they do not have to rely on external consultants for ongoing support. We also help our clients fund projects and achieve outcomes by facilitating cross-sector collaboration in communities.

At Strategy Solution’s, Inc. we realize each organization is unique, and custom design each process to meet individual needs. Our projects and clients have been recognized as “best practices” by the International Economic Development Council, the International Association of Facilitators, The US Department of Health and Human Services, The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, The Pennsylvania and New York Departments of Public Health, The Pennsylvania Department of Education, Pennsylvania Partners (the state Workforce Association), the Maryland Workforce Association as well as US News and World Report.

UnitedHealthcare

UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping people live healthier lives and making the health system work better for everyone by simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. In the United States, UnitedHealthcare offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than 1.2 million health care providers and 6,500 hospitals nationwide. In Pennsylvania alone, we serve more than 1.1 million members and provide access to more than 61,000 health care providers and 285 hospitals – including UPMC and Allegheny Health Network. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified health care company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com or follow @UHC on Twitter.

Vertical Solutions

Vertical Solutions is a healthcare-focused, managed IT service provider that helps organizations address their technology needs. By providing proactive end user support and helpdesk services, threat protection, on-premise or cloud-based network support and strategy development, Vertical Solutions allows you to focus on your core business, not your technology.