Meet Our Trusted Network of AHA Associates
Our trusted network of AHA Associates offer innovative solutions that can support your hospital or health system during this time of transformational change
Closely aligned with our mission and vision, these select business-community representatives are fully committed to helping the AHA and our members advance health in America. Tap into their solutions to support your hospital or health system’s efforts to discover new directions, set strategies and identify pathways to success in today’s evolving health care landscape.
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Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 733,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy and Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song.
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Founded in 2013, Evolv Technology was created with a vision to keep people safer where they gather. We’re committed to constant innovation and come to work every day driven by a deep sense of our combined purpose to help create safer experiences around the globe. Everyone deserves to feel safe. It’s your right. It’s our purpose.
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Waystar’s technology empowers healthcare organizations to automate manual work, gain insight into processes and performance, and ultimately collect more revenue. Our platform supports the entire revenue cycle including financial clearance, revenue capture, commercial and government claims, patient billing, payment management, denial prevention + recovery, and reporting + analytics.
We also help patients understand what they’re paying and why, modernizing a previously-frustrating-and-opaque experience. We integrate with all major PM, HIS and EHR systems and can be fully functional in less time and with less hassle than the industry standard.
Built on the legacy of RCM leaders, Navicure and ZirMed, we welcomed innovators Connance, Ovation, PARO, Digitize, Recondo, eSolutions and Patientco into the Waystar fold. Waystar supports nearly a half million healthcare providers.
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Celerium engineers effective data breach detection and containment solutions that are easy to implement and reduce the burden on IT teams.
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At CENTEGIX, we are dedicated to our mission of innovating safety solutions to empower and protect people (every day). CENTEGIX is a leader in wearable safety technology with over 600,000 CrisisAlert duress badges in use. The cloud-based CENTEGIX Safety Platform™ initiates the fastest response time for emergencies campus-wide. Leaders in over 12,000 locations nationwide trust CENTEGIX’s innovative safety solutions to empower and protect their people.
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CorroHealth is the leading provider of clinically led healthcare analytics and technology-driven solutions, dedicated to positively impacting the financial performance for physicians, hospitals, and health plans. With over 15,000 employees worldwide, CorroHealth offers integrated solutions, proven expertise, intelligent technology, and scalability to address needs across the entire revenue cycle. Our global presence extends over 10 locations, including the United States, India, and the United Kingdom, enhancing our ability to deliver exceptional service on a large scale. More information can be found at corrohealth.com.
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CVS Accountable Care, CVS Healthspire, is a strategic partner in value-based care serving more than 1M Medicare beneficiaries, and over 70K provider partners across 230 clients in ACO REACH, Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), and Medicare Advantage programs. We are model-agnostic, payer-agnostic focused on providing the support needed to successfully enable providers as they progress from limited to full risk. With more than 10 years of value-based care experience, we have worked together with diverse partner types including Academic Medical Centers, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Clinically Integrated Networks, and Independent and Community-based Providers. Our flexible services are customized to support our partners’ individual needs for success in value-based care including technology and analytics, clinical programs, practice transformation, and administrative support.
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CyraCom is a language services leader that provides interpretation and translation services to thousands of organizations across the US and worldwide.
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Guidehouse is a global consultancy providing advisory, digital, and managed services to the commercial and public sectors. Guidehouse is purpose-built to serve the national security, financial services, healthcare, energy, and infrastructure industries. Disrupting legacy consulting delivery models with its agility, capabilities, and scale, the firm delivers technology-enabled and focused solutions that position clients for innovation, resilience, and growth. With high-quality standards and a relentless pursuit of client success, Guidehouse’s more than 17,000 employees collaborate with leaders to outwit complexity and achieve transformational changes that meaningfully shape the future.
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Horizon Health has a proven history of assisting hospitals in managing their behavioral health programs. Provide your patients with excellence in care and services by partnering with an expert team of behavioral health professionals who will help you build effective and scalable behavioral programs to offer your community. Horizon Health is your strategic partner to assist your hospital with expanding and optimizing your behavioral health programs while keeping your organization’s overall outcomes and long-term financial success top of mind.
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Inovalon is a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions empowering data-driven healthcare. The Inovalon ONE® Platform brings together national-scale connectivity, real-time primary source data access, and advanced analytics into a sophisticated cloud-based platform empowering improved outcomes and economics across the healthcare ecosystem. The company’s analytics and capabilities are used by more than 20,000 customers and are informed by the primary source data of more than 79 billion medical events across 1 million physicians, 640,000 clinical settings, and 375 million unique patienpfts.
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Relias empowers healthcare leaders to retain and develop staff, elevate care quality and reduce risk across their organization. Touting thousands of accredited courses across 40 specialties, Relias has proven expertise and engaging learning modalities to improve staff retention and deliver better patient outcomes. visit us at relias.com to learn more.
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At SimpliFi, our mission is to help health systems maintain the staff necessary to realize patient volume and revenue, while reducing their agency labor costs. We serve as a guide to identify and implement labor cost-saving strategies for health systems across the US. We do this via a menu of workforce solutions delivered by SimpliFi team members and a pre-vetted portfolio of partners. Our approach reduces vetting time, administrative burden, and execution risk so our clients can stand up new strategies and start realizing savings, more quickly.
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Tegria is a global healthcare consulting and services company partnering with provider and payer organizations to transform healthcare. Through strategic advisory, consulting, and managed services, Tegria delivers end-to-end solutions in access + experience, care operations, revenue cycle management, enterprise systems, infrastructure + cloud, and data + analytics. With 1,500 experts worldwide supporting over 500 organizations, Tegria helps create a more accessible, efficient, and integrated healthcare system by driving growth, enhancing experiences, and fostering collaboration. Discover more about Tegria's solutions at Tegria.com.
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Globally, we develop and produce advanced medical products, digital healthcare solutions, and intelligent solutions that cover the entire process of imaging diagnosis and treatment. With research and development locations across the United States, our award-winning artificial intelligence team based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and service engineers and critical service parts in forward stocking locations nationwide, our nearly 100,000 square foot Texas headquarters is flanked by a nationwide presence that has been getting bigger every year since 2013. Because we built ourselves from the beginning to approach the industry differently, we can go beyond norms to offer what modern healthcare organizations need. Our customers deserve a fresh approach and higher standards. That's why we fully embrace industry progress and bold change.
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Unite Us is the nation’s premier technology provider for advancing social care outcomes. Our advanced product suite streamlines processes and fosters collaboration across government, healthcare, health plans, and community-based organizations to address social drivers of health by facilitating social care services, intervention programs, and Medicaid reimbursements. The first of its kind, our closed-loop referral platform now integrates more than 1M services and securely hosts the nation’s largest network of non-profits committed to improving whole-person health one community at a time.
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Cedar is committed to improving the healthcare financial experience for all. With an innovative platform that connects providers and payers, Cedar empowers healthcare consumers with an optimized journey—all powered by data science and interactive design. For Cedar clients, this leads to increased payments, more efficient operations and greater consumer loyalty. To learn more about why leading U.S. healthcare organizations trust Cedar to manage the end-to-end consumer experience from pre-registration to post-visit billing, visit cedar.com.
Novant Health wanted to make bill payment easy to navigate for patients and help them understand how payments work and insurance benefits apply. After implementing Cedar Pay, Novant Health saw a significant rise in patient satisfaction with the billing process with scores now at 90%. In one year, Novant Health added $30M in patient revenue, while time to payment resolution has dropped by 43%. Digital self-service now accounts for 87% of all patient payments.
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Iris Telehealth helps organizations achieve their goals and support communities through clinically sound and financially sustainable behavioral health programs. Together, we help optimize their programs and deliver best-in-class support to make virtual behavioral health care a seamless, long-term solution. We support all care settings, patient cohorts, and acuity levels.
Learn how Iris Telehealth helped Geisinger Health dramatically reduce its referral queue of behavioral health patients waiting for care from 18,000 to 3,000 patients via an integrated program working at-scale. Through Iris’s intake assessment program, Geisinger also found that 40% of patients referred to psychiatric care would be better serviced in a lower, more appropriate level of care.
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Mednition is a healthcare AI company, empowering emergency nurses to save lives with KATE AI. KATE provides 24/7 clinical risk intelligence while improving health equity, workforce well-being, and financial performance. For nurses, by nurses, KATE AI has helped nurses provide care for over 2 million patients walking in through the hospital's front door.
There is increased recognition of the impact of structural racism and other biases on health care access and patient outcomes. This can be particularly devastating in emergency departments where patients are generally unknown to providers and may be acutely ill or injured and the reliance on heuristics has negative consequences. Using tools, educational programs and technologies, hospitals can effectively address bias and inequity in care delivery.
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NeuroFlow is a technology and analytics company that helps risk-bearing healthcare organizations scale value-based care. Using real-time data analytics embedded into workflows and EHR systems, NeuroFlow identifies, and risk stratifies BH needs that often go under-addressed and makes that data actionable with clinical decision and coordination support services.
Jefferson Health partnered with NeuroFlow to integrate behavioral health (BH) into their primary care and ob-gyn clinics, scaling the delivery of remote screening and creating evidence-based care pathways for BH support. NeuroFlow’s platform flags rising-risk patients and connects them to acuity-specific resources in a timely way, enabling Jefferson to reduce emergency department utilization by 34% after NeuroFlow’s deployment.
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BDO is deeply familiar with the clinical, financial, digital, and operational challenges healthcare leaders face. We help you assess challenges and opportunities, uncovering data and insights that can improve performance and enhance institutional reputation. We deliver hands-on advice and experience to help you Enhance the patient experience, Improve financial performance, Realize the full value of your EHR system, Manage change to drive physician adoption, Minimize implementation risks, Comply with changes in regulations, Optimize Epic systems and other EHR/ and revenue cycle vendor solutions. If you require restructuring, we can help assess competitive context, define opportunities for financing and evaluate M&A opportunities. We share your commitment to patient-centered delivery, equitable access, and financial efficiency.
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As the leader in Inpatient Journey Analytics, Kontakt.io helps hospitals optimize care processes and resources by understanding how patients move through care delivery. Using AI, IoT, and RTLS, Kontakt.io offers turnkey solutions to uncover waste, streamline capacity, improve workflows, and help staff and patients feel seen and valued. Kontakt.io's AI platform delivers over 20 solutions, including asset tracking, staff safety, clinical workflow, patient experience, wayfinding, and more. The platform is delivered as a service, combining BLE sensors and tags, gateways, cloud analytics, web applications, and APIs. Why Kontakt.io? - Easy to deploy and use. Leverage your existing IT network. - Fastest time to value. See ROI on day one. - Scalable to use cases for assets, staff, patients, and space.
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NAVEX Global is the worldwide leader in integrated risk and compliance management software and services. Trusted by more than 14,500 customers, our solutions help organizations manage risk, address complex regulatory compliance requirements and foster an ethical, highly productive workplace culture.
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Preverity is the nation’s preeminent Insurtech provider of technology and advanced analytics focused on enhancing patient safety and advancing risk management for healthcare systems and medical malpractice insurance carriers. With the largest proprietary repository of de-identified medical and pharmacy claims data in the United States, Preverity provides timely and accurate intelligence on clinical activities benchmarked against national, regional, and system standards. Our platform empowers healthcare leaders to identify areas for enhancing patient safety and minimizing organizational risk. Through our tools, healthcare institutions can effectively measure and impact outcomes in OPPE and FPPE programs. Additionally, Preverity collaborates directly with Hospital Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs), contributing vital information as part of Patient Safety Work Product (PSWP) to further bolster patient safety initiatives. For more information, visit our Health Systems site.
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SullivanCotter partners with health care and other not-for-profit organizations to drive performance and improve outcomes through the development and implementation of integrated workforce strategies. Using our time-tested methodologies and industry-leading research and information, we provide data-driven insights and expertise to help organizations align business strategy and performance objectives – enabling our clients to deliver on their mission, vision and values.
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Surgical Directions is a healthcare solutions organization that helps clients improve perioperative, procedural care, and anesthesia services through consulting, technology, and leadership. We partner with organizations to reduce costs and increase revenue using peer-to-peer leadership and process expertise coupled with actionable data analytics. Our team of experienced practitioners and consultants tackles critical issues while achieving financial, operational, and clinical outcome excellence. Surgical Directions has successfully served 400+ hospitals, ASCs, and medical groups to increase patient access and, most importantly, improve patient care. Additional information is available at surgicaldirections.com.
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At TruBridge, we know the impact that quality healthcare can create in a community and the consequences of its absence. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to support providers in their efforts to deliver the best care possible for their communities. Through a suite of innovative products, collaborative services and tools, we help our clients eliminate the financial and operational obstacles holding them back and lay the foundation for lasting success. We are a healthcare solutions company and we clear the way for care.
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WittKieffer is the premier executive search and leadership advisory firm developing impactful leadership teams for organizations that improve quality of life. We work exclusively with organizations in not-for-profit and for-profit healthcare, science and education the Quality of Life Ecosystem. Leveraging our unwavering focus on this complex ecosystem, we help clients solve challenging problems through a deep understanding of the factors that influence leadership needs, behaviors and culture. Through our executive search, interim leadership and leadership advisory services, we strengthen organizations that make the world better.
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Founded in 1931, the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) is a professional association representing more than 65,000 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and resident registered nurse anesthetists nationwide. The AANA promulgates education and practice standards and guidelines, and affords consultation to both private and governmental entities regarding nurse anesthetists and their practice. The AANA Foundation supports the profession by awarding education and research grants to students, faculty and practicing CRNAs. More than 90 percent of the nation's nurse anesthetists are members of the AANA.
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The American College of Healthcare Executives is an international professional society of more than 48,000 healthcare executives who lead hospitals, healthcare systems and other healthcare organizations. ACHE's mission is to advance our members and healthcare management excellence. ACHE offers its prestigious FACHE® credential, signifying board certification in healthcare management. ACHE's established network of 77 chapters provides access to networking, education and career development at the local level. ACHE works toward its vision of being the preeminent professional society for leaders dedicated to improving health. The Foundation of the American College of Healthcare Executives was established to further advance healthcare management excellence through education and research.
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Disasters can strike with little or no warning, stressing your healthcare personnel and disrupting patient services. No matter what the disaster is, BluSky’s Emergency Response Team has extensive experience in repairing and disinfecting healthcare facilities to return property and services back to normal. We are the Environment of Care experts!
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Draffin Tucker is a full-service CPA and advisory firm serving healthcare clients throughout the United States. For over seventy years, we have helped and advised hospitals, health systems, nursing homes, home health agencies, community health centers, physician practices, hospices and other healthcare organizations. With 80 percent of our services focused on healthcare, we extend beyond financial statement audits, cost report reviews, and preparation of tax filings including 340B Drug Pricing Program Audits, System Conversions, Policies and Procedures Evaluations, Service Line Analyses, S-10 Assistance, Lease Accounting Considerations, and Staffing Coverage. Each engagement is specifically tailored to meet the healthcare organization’s needs.
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Every healthcare environment should be as unique as its context. At HDR, we embrace a deep understanding of our clients’ missions and then design with empathy for patient, family and staff experience. We begin by using design thinking to help clients imagine their future. Then we explore innovative opportunities to shape it. We use predictive analytics to help clients make sound decisions based on data. And our multidisciplinary experts use deep knowledge and precedents for high impact process improvement and planning solutions to reduce operating costs and dramatically improve health outcomes.
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Healthcare Board Advisory empowers healthcare boards with expert guidance. We accelerate board development by advising, mentoring, and connecting industry and board leaders.
Our mission to enhance governance and leadership effectiveness equips boards to deliver high-quality, cost-effective healthcare.
Our core services include:
- Self-Assessment & Personalized Development: Tailored evaluations to identify and address areas for improvement.
- Quarterly Healthcare Updates: Insights on finance, regulation, quality, digital tools, value-based care, population health, and mergers & acquisitions.
- Board Networking: Facilitating connections with industry and board leaders.
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Juniper is a specialized investment banking firm focused exclusively on nonprofit organizations with expert merger and acquisition (M&A) advice. We are the only experienced M&A group whose resources are devoted entirely to this industry. Over the last 30 years, Juniper’s bankers have advised over 250 of the nation’s leading nonprofit companies on strategic alternatives involving business combinations. We have been fortunate enough to work on many of the most complex and innovative transactions in the industry.
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Limbach is a building systems solution firm that partners with building owners and facilities managers who have mission critical mechanical (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), electrical and plumbing infrastructure.
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Lumeris offers population health management solutions that enable health care organizations to thrive in valuebased care. Our operations, technology and consulting services help health systems, payers and providers manage quality, cost and utilization as part of any value-based contract. Through incentives, tools and information, we empower physicians and administrators to make better-informed, value-based decisions. With our near-decade of experience, unique approach and proven results, we support health care organizations in their transition from volume to value.
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Mazzetti is an employee-owned benefit corporation, committed to creating healthier, enduring environments. Though our story began with a small team of medical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) engineers, almost 60 years later, we’ve grown to 200+ people, in locations across the U.S. (and in India) with diverse expertise addressing the spectrum of client needs in the built environment. Mazzetti consultants deliver world-class MEP engineering and technology solutions, rooted in local culture . We aid clients in the planning, designing, optimizing, equipping, illuminating, sustaining, even “reimagining” of environments, as appropriate.
The people of Mazzetti believe in seeking and delivering meaningful work. We intentionally work predominately in the Healthcare industry, notorious for its energy-intensive, highly complex, highly regulated buildings, AND highly impactful relationship with communities. This is our calling. Mazzetti thoughtfully connects people, design, and technology to create lasting, positive impact.
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MEDITECH empowers healthcare organizations around the globe to expand their vision of what’s possible with Expanse, the world’s most intelligent EHR platform. Expanse answers the demands of an overburdened workforce: personalized workflows, intuitive functionality, interoperable systems, and innovative AI applications, all working together to drive better outcomes. See why thousands of healthcare organizations in 27 countries and territories choose Expanse to meet the challenges of a new era in healthcare, boosting the productivity and satisfaction of their staff and patients. Expand your possibilities. Visit ehr.meditech.com, find MEDITECH Podcasts on your favorite platform, videos on our YouTube channel, and follow us on LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
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The National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center) is a nonprofit organization based in Duluth, Minnesota dedicated to sustaining and improving health care in rural communities. We are the nation’s leading technical assistance and knowledge center in rural health. The Center is committed to DEI and anti-racism. We create an environment that reflects the communities we live in and serve; a place where everyone feels accepted and empowered to be their full, authentic selves; and where everyone belongs. We understand the impact of and seek to defeat racism and discrimination in ourselves, our workplace, and the world. This guides how we cultivate leaders, build our programs and resources, and deliver our technical assistance.
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Ovation Healthcare is the premier provider of shared services designed to provide scale and efficiency to hospital business operations. For 45 years, Ovation Healthcare has supported independent hospitals and healthcare systems as they strive to improve performance and quality of patient care. Ovation Healthcare’s portfolio, including Octave Leadership Advisory Services, Elevate Supply and Expense Management Solutions, Amplify Revenue Cycle Management, and Tempo Technology Services, empowers hospitals to effectively address various operational challenges. For more information, visit our site.
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Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC) is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of more than 4,400 U.S. hospitals and health systems and approximately 225,000 other providers and organizations to transform healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, and consulting and other services, Premier enables better care and outcomes at a lower cost. Premier plays a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, collaborating with members to co-develop long-term innovations that reinvent and improve the way care is delivered to patients nationwide. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier is passionate about transforming American healthcare. For more information, visit our site.
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Sheppard Mullin specializes in advising hospitals and healthcare providers on regulatory, transactional, and litigation issues, providing strategic and proactive legal services to navigate the complex healthcare landscape effectively.
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Stephenson, Acquisto and Colman (SAC), is the premier healthcare reimbursement litigation law firm in the country. SAC has practiced exclusively in the area of post-appeal payer disputes on behalf of providers for over 34 years. The firm represents a wide client base, including some of the largest health systems in the nation, world-renowned academic medical centers, leading children's hospitals, and critical access facilities. The firm practices in 24 states, and pursues all payers, commercial or governmental, through contractual appeal, contractual arbitration, and civil litigation at trial and in the appellate courts, both state and federal. SAC is also closely involved in industry organizations, including HFMA and AAHAM.