NCHA Strategic Partners

The healthcare industry comes with its own unique challenges, so Commerce Bank builds products and services made for hospitals, medical offices and small practices. Commerce Bank can help simplify revenue, improve financial efficiency and reduce expenses. Its automated A/P solution allows hospitals to pay vendors electronically and receive a revenue share on total spend.

The world’s leading private security organization, G4S, provides Safe, secure transportation and guardianship of behavioral health patients.

IBM Watson Health aspires to improve lives and give hope by delivering innovation, through data and cognitive insights, to address the world’s most pressing health challenges. The organization aims to provide customers with the technology and expertise they need to power thriving organizations, support vibrant communities, and solve health challenges for people everywhere.

The Marsh & McLennan Agency offers full-service employee benefit design and consulting. It specializes in customized plans for healthcare organizations that enhance business strategies, core values and culture.

MCAG is a class action settlement expert, who has distributed hundreds of millions in cash to their clients through their Settlement Recovery Service. They help more than 1,000 health providers to streamline the filing process and secure recoveries from class action settlements.

Merritt Hawkins is the nation’s premier permanent physician search and consulting firm. They also place allied health professionals in select disciplines. At the forefront of physician recruiting trends, Merritt Hawkins’ original data and analyses are used as national benchmarks.

Navigant offers comprehensive revenue cycle outsourcing for all phases of the revenue cycle, including: patient access, health information management, revenue integrity, and patient financial services.

NC MedAssist is a non-profit pharmacy that provides free prescription medicines to low-income, uninsured North Carolinians. MedAssist partners with free clinics, health departments and hospitals and serves clients directly by providing mail order service to their homes.

NCHA partners with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. to offer workers’ compensation coverage and management services. In 2018, the NCHA Strategic Partners Workers’ Compensation Fund
announced that its members will receive almost over $2 million in distributions, normally called dividends, based upon favorable operating results.

PatientPing is a health technology company that is building a national community of engaged providers who are sharing information, coordinating care, and working together to get patients healthier faster. By connecting care teams through real-time information sharing, PatientPing enables providers to deliver higher quality and more cost-effective care, improving patient outcomes and experience.

Qualivis specializes in supplemental staffing by providing qualified, pre-approved nursing and allied health professionals. Formerly Healthcare Staffing Services, Qualivis partners with over 100 local, regional and national staffing agencies to provide access to qualified, credentialed healthcare professionals.

Staff Care is the nation’s leading locum tenens staffing firm, matching physicians in all specialties, dentists, CRNAs, and other advanced practice healthcare professionals on a temporary basis.

SUNRx is the industry innovator in managing 340B programs that expand access to affordable medications, provide financial benefits to the hospital and its uninsured, and that meet the highest levels of regulatory compliance. The SUNRx team has been managing 340B programs since 2006, and has extensive pharmacy benefit management payor experience.

Founded in 2001, Verge Health is a risk management software company. Its software solutions enable healthcare organizations to proactively protect and defend patients, caregivers and frontline staff against errors, adverse events and policy violations.

Supply cost management – All classes of trade. Vizient serves thousands of healthcare organizations across the nation connecting them with the knowledge, solutions and expertise that accelerate performance to ensure they deliver exceptional, cost-effective care.