The Rawlings Group, Apixio Payment Integrity, and VARIS Merge to Form Next-Generation Payment Accuracy and Integrity Platform
Summary
The combination introduces a next level of payment accuracy and proactive identification of errors in an increasingly complex healthcare environment by leveraging each company’s technology and decades of experience to create a comprehensive platform well-positioned to drive meaningful savings for health plans. With its capabilities, scale, proprietary technology, and artificial intelligence (AI) enablement, the company is uniquely positioned to meet payers’ growing demand for improved financial performance and quality. The combined entity’s differentiators include: • Flexible delivery model: Only company in the market that allows clients to configure the platform to enable their internal payment integrity teams or work with a bench of clinical experts on a fully outsourced basis. This move is built upon our decades of healthcare expertise coupled with an accelerated investment in leveraging big data and AI with a maniacal focus to help bend the cost curve.” David Pierre will become Chief Executive Officer of the combined entity. The company’s actionable AI technology, flexible services, and seamless workflows power accurate payments and high-quality patient care so that healthcare organizations can thrive as the industry moves toward value-based reimbursement models.