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. 

RADNOR, Pa. (Aug. 13, 2024) — Inc. revealed today that Vālenz^® Health ranks as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America: No. 2155 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list, and No. 155 among health services companies. This marks the fourth time in the past five years that Valenz Health has appeared as an Inc. 5000 honoree.

The prestigious ranking provides a data-driven look at the most successful companies within the economy’s most dynamic segment — its independent, entrepreneurial businesses. Microsoft, Meta, Chobani, Under Armour, Timberland, Oracle, Patagonia and many other high-profile brands have been Inc. 5000 honorees.

“We’re thrilled to be recognized again this year among America’s fastest-growing private companies, confirming the success of our unique approach to delivering innovative and transformative models in simplifying healthcare,” said Rob Gelb, Chief Executive Officer of Valenz Health. “As our company continues to expand, we’re driving tremendous momentum toward unlocking new strategic growth opportunities for our customers while facilitating high-value care for everyone we serve.”

The Inc. 5000 class of 2024 represents companies that have driven rapid revenue growth while navigating significant economic disruption over the past three years. Among this year’s top 500 companies, the average median three-year revenue growth rate is 1,637 percent. In all, this year’s Inc. 5000 companies have added 874,458 jobs to the economy over the past three years.

“To see all the intriguing and surprising ways that companies are transforming sectors, from healthcare and AI to apparel and pet food, is fascinating for me as a journalist and storyteller,” said Mike Hofman, Inc. editor-in-chief.

After joining the Inc. 5000 list for the first time in 2020, Valenz Health has continued to experience consistently rapid growth, both organic and acquisitive. Valenz Health has acquired six companies since 2022 – most recently Healthcare Bluebook™, the industry’s leading healthcare quality and cost navigation solution for consumers and responsible employers nationwide.

As a long-respected partner of providers and payers to ensure an elevated experience for all in the healthcare value chain, Valenz Health leverages its fully integrated solutions on a single platform to simplify healthcare. Offering unparalleled access to provider cost, quality and utilization data, Valenz Health empowers members and customers with the information they need to choose high-value care that ensures the best possible outcomes.

For complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, location and other criteria, visit www.inc.com/inc5000. All 5000 companies are featured on Inc.com starting today, and the top 500 appear in the new issue of Inc. magazine, available on newsstands beginning Tuesday, Aug. 20.

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.

About the Inc. 5000 Methodology

Companies on the 2024 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2020 to 2023. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2020. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2023. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2020 is $100,000; the minimum for 2023 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places.

About Inc.

Inc. Business Media is the leading multimedia brand for entrepreneurs. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of our community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating our future. Inc.’s award-winning work achieves a monthly brand footprint of more than 40 million across a variety of channels, including events, print, digital, video, podcasts, newsletters, and social media. Its proprietary Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since its launch as the Inc. 100 in 1982, analyzes company data to rank the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The recognition that comes with inclusion on this and other prestigious Inc. lists, such as Female Founders and Power Partners, gives the founders of top businesses the opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. For more information, visit www.inc.com.

RADNOR, Pa. (July 11, 2024) — In a significant development for the healthcare industry, Vālenz^® Health, a leading platform of integrated cost containment and payment integrity solutions, signed a definitive agreement to acquire Healthcare Bluebook^TM, an industry-leading healthcare cost and quality navigation platform. The combination will bring together the companies’ complementary offerings and create an integrated member engagement and digital ’front door’ experience and payment integrity data platform. The transaction is expected to close within 45 days subject to certain regulatory approvals.

Healthcare Bluebook combines objective price and quality data with intuitive online navigation capabilities to drive savings and deliver measurable ROI to consumers and responsible employers nationwide. Healthcare Bluebook is an industry leader in comprehensive cost and quality insights across medical and pharmacy care options for employers and their employees. Valenz Health’s many solutions include expansive data sets, care management capabilities, payment integrity solutions and plan performance support. When combined with Healthcare Bluebook, Valenz Health will fulfill what the industry wants and needs to empower members, drive improved health outcomes and simplify healthcare.

According to Rob Gelb, Chief Executive Officer of Valenz Health: “Together, we will be able to offer a single source of data and solutions on an integrated platform that will make it easier for the industry to execute on a healthcare experience that delivers higher-quality, cost-effective and more efficacious care for members. We are exceptionally well positioned to deliver a new pathway for consumers to achieve the Valenz Health promise to engage early and often for smarter, better, faster and more cost-effective healthcare.”

“Because Healthcare Bluebook and Valenz Health share an uncompromised commitment to transparency, member advocacy and cost savings, we will be able to execute at a much deeper level to directly benefit self-insured plans and their members,” said Mike O’Neil, Chief Executive Officer of Healthcare Bluebook. “Together, we will make it easier for members to find and receive high-quality care at a fair price every time, putting members in charge of their own care.”

Clients will continue to experience the same close partnership and personal attention they have come to expect from Healthcare Bluebook and will benefit from it being part of the Valenz Health fully integrated platform.

Stifel and Raymond James acted as financial advisors to Valenz Health. William Blair acted as financial advisor to Healthcare Bluebook. Debevoise & Plimpton LLP acted as legal counsel to Valenz Health; Goodwin Procter LLP acted as legal counsel to Healthcare Bluebook.

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.

Kelso & Company, a leading middle-market private equity firm with a shared vision for accelerating positive change in the delivery of healthcare for the self-insured industry, is the capital partner for Valenz Health. For more information, visit valenzhealth.com.

About Healthcare Bluebook^TM

Healthcare Bluebook^TM uses industry-leading objective quality and price data and claims-driven ROI reporting to deliver healthcare value insights to consumers, employers, healthcare providers and payors. Bluebook’s intuitive online healthcare shopping solution provides employers and members with an easy-to-use benefits solution that increases movement from low-value to high-value care and prescription medications, driving savings, rapid ROI and greater price predictability. Combined with a proven engagement methodology, Bluebook’s innovative suite of services empowers smarter healthcare choices while decreasing costs and improving health outcomes.

Primus Capital, the capital partner for Healthcare Bluebook™, is a growth-oriented private equity firm focused on investing in leading healthcare, software and technology-enabled services companies.
For more information, visit healthcarebluebook.com.

PHOENIX, Ariz. (April 12, 2024) — Vālenz^® Health proudly announces that Carrie Solomon, MPH, has joined the executive leadership team as Senior Vice President, Care Management.

Most recently, Solomon was Senior Director of Clinical Strategy for Amwell, where she oversaw the clinical strategy and operations of 1.6 million virtual visits in primary care, urgent care, therapy, psychiatry, sleep, nutrition, and weight loss management. In addition, she led the team that drove the primary virtual offering for Elevance/Anthem members; implemented, powered and supplemented virtual health offerings for CVS Health and Optum; and recently went live with a nationwide digital weight loss management clinical solution.

“Carrie’s impeccable credentials are a perfect fit for leading our Care team in an increasingly complex, evolving and exciting future in case management, utilization management, disease management and member navigation,” said Chris Harber, Chief Operating Officer of Valenz. “She brings a level of clinical sophistication and deep understanding of outcome data reporting for members and clients that will be vital in fulfilling our mission of optimizing the cost, quality and utilization of healthcare.”

Solomon’s background includes serving in strategy and administrative roles at Boston Medical Center, where she assisted with the development and implementation of key initiatives to drive down Total Medical Expense while improving clinical outcomes and patient experience. She also acquired extensive health policy expertise, most notably regarding the Affordable Care Act, while working for several influential members of Congress on Capitol Hill.

Currently based in Boston, Solomon graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and received her master’s degree in health care management from Harvard School of Public Health.

“The tremendous dedication of Valenz to overcoming the challenges of our healthcare system and driving the best possible member experience makes me very excited about taking this strong care management foundation to the next level,” Solomon said. “I’m looking forward to further advancing our innovations in bending the cost curve and acting as a change agent in making healthcare more efficient, effective and member-friendly.”

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.