Vālenz® Health is pleased to announce that Anthony Naes has been named Chief Client Officer.
Naes joined Valenz with the acquisition of 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. He served as Senior Vice President of Sales at Healthcare Bluebook, where he led go-to-market teams to help brokers, employers and third-party administrators lower medical benefits spend and improve quality of care for health plan members.
“Anthony brings a wealth of market knowledge to his new role, along with demonstrated sales acumen, natural leadership skills and a passion for mentoring,” said Nathan Nelson, Chief Growth Officer at Valenz. “Leading our client service function, Anthony will foster and grow our customer relationships while continuing to deliver on the unmet and underserved needs of our clients across the self-insurance industry.”
A dedicated client service and sales leader, Naes joined Healthcare Bluebook in 2020 as Regional Sales Director before being promoted to Senior Vice President of Sales. He brings expertise in multiple growth areas, including market planning and positioning, multichannel sales distribution, technology implementation and integration, and new market launches. Naes has extensive experience in the employee benefits space, with previous roles at Alight Solutions and Liazon Corp. He earned a degree in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and currently resides in the Denver area. In his role as Chief Client Officer, Naes joins the Valenz executive team, focusing on supporting the company’s diverse roster of healthcare clients.
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 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.
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Vālenz® Health Names Anthony Naes Chief Client Officer
/in Announcements, Featured, Press/by Jameson WalshVālenz® Health is pleased to announce that Anthony Naes has been named Chief Client Officer.
Naes joined Valenz with the acquisition of 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. He served as Senior Vice President of Sales at Healthcare Bluebook, where he led go-to-market teams to help brokers, employers and third-party administrators lower medical benefits spend and improve quality of care for health plan members.
“Anthony brings a wealth of market knowledge to his new role, along with demonstrated sales acumen, natural leadership skills and a passion for mentoring,” said Nathan Nelson, Chief Growth Officer at Valenz. “Leading our client service function, Anthony will foster and grow our customer relationships while continuing to deliver on the unmet and underserved needs of our clients across the self-insurance industry.”
A dedicated client service and sales leader, Naes joined Healthcare Bluebook in 2020 as Regional Sales Director before being promoted to Senior Vice President of Sales. He brings expertise in multiple growth areas, including market planning and positioning, multichannel sales distribution, technology implementation and integration, and new market launches. Naes has extensive experience in the employee benefits space, with previous roles at Alight Solutions and Liazon Corp. He earned a degree in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and currently resides in the Denver area. In his role as Chief Client Officer, Naes joins the Valenz executive team, focusing on supporting the company’s diverse roster of healthcare clients.
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 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.