Center For Healthcare Solutions
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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.

DBR & CO is a boutique, independent Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. One of the region’s largest independent RIAs, DBR & CO operates with a singular mission of delivering the highest standard of expertise and objective financial advice to select businesses, institutions, individuals, and families, with a particular emphasis on healthcare organizations and their professionals. The firm serves as a fiduciary retirement plan advisor to leading hospital systems, specialty healthcare facilities, and industry service providers and as a financial advisor to physicians and healthcare industry executives on a national basis.

At FORVIS, our Healthcare Practice is one of the nation’s largest assurance, tax, and advisory firms comprised of more than 950 professionals dedicated to delivering Unmatched Client ExperiencesTM and value-added solutions. We are the professional services provider of choice to more than 6,100 healthcare organizations who rely on our depth of expertise, breadth of resources, technical specialization, and innovative insights.

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.

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.

MedCom Solutions was founded in 1986 on the principle that a collaboration between well-developed analytical, technological, and clinical methods is critical to developing a framework that delivers the ultimate value for healthcare organizations. We specialize in improving hospitals’ bottom line, so they have the resources to provide better care to the community.

The MedCom team leverages years of experience and disruptive technology to increase charge accuracy by examining chargemaster data, system connectivity, and charge capture processes, all while monitoring payments to provide a roadmap for improvement.

MedCom has earned a reputation for delivering results and exceeding our clients’ expectations.

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.

With over 20 years of experience, ReportingMD brings a complete data source into one system, providing a 360-degree view of patient population, across your network, group, or practice. Our cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant, ONC certified, analytic platform is specially built with best-in-class technology to support the needs of healthcare organizations with detailed provider performance, and drill-down to the individual patient encounter.

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.

Think Communications, Inc., is an integrated marketing communications agency in Pittsburgh. Since 1998, we have been helping regional and multi-national healthcare, consumer and business-to-business clients make their brands successful with comprehensive advertising, public relations, and digital campaigns. We focus on strategies that define the brand message and advance efficient campaign tactics that drive sales and market share for our clients.

Like many good companies, we have a process – the ThinkSmart System™ – which allows us to better understand your objectives, your brand’s challenges, and your communication needs.

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.

Vertilocity 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, Vertilocity allows you to focus on your core business, not your technology.

We help Western Pennsylvania health care providers and organizations, realize their missions while maintaining their status as economically
viable entities.

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