Conifer Health Solutions Announces New Value-Based Care Offerings to Healthcare Industry

Solutions will drive value-based performance for hospitals, health systems, physicians, self-insured employers, and payers

FRISCO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Conifer Health Solutions, a leader in healthcare business process management services, announced it will now offer clinical integration, population health management and financial risk management services to all healthcare stakeholders to help them improve the cost and quality of healthcare delivery, as well as improve patient outcomes, to better support healthcare reform and the evolution to value-based care.

“Our expertise and knowledge-based services -- coupled with our cutting-edge predictive modeling technology, clinical integration platform and data analytics tools -- can help providers, payers, and self-insured employers lower costs and improve care for patients.”

“Conifer Health will rely on more than 20 years of experience in supporting physician and hospital alignment, financial risk management and population healthcare management,” said Megan North, president of Conifer Health’s Value-Based Care. “Our expertise and knowledge-based services -- coupled with our cutting-edge predictive modeling technology, clinical integration platform and data analytics tools -- can help providers, payers, and self-insured employers lower costs and improve care for patients.”

Conifer Health Solutions President and Chief Executive Officer Stephen Mooney added, “By consolidating and integrating Conifer’s Cap Management Systems and our recently-acquired InforMed Health Care Solutions business into a single operating unit led by Megan North, Conifer Health is positioned like no other healthcare business process management provider to support the financial, clinical, and quality challenges associated with healthcare reform.”

Conifer Health can now provide an entire suite of solutions that addresses not only patient access and patient financial services, but also health administration and care management, with a focus on the patient experience for clients that are working to transition from fee-for-service to fee-for-value healthcare.

About Conifer Health Solutions

Conifer Health Solutions is a leading healthcare business process management services provider working to improve operational performance for more than 600 clients so they can support financial improvement, enhance the patient experience, and drive value-based performance. Through our revenue cycle management, patient communications, and value-based care solutions, we empower healthcare decision makers -- hospitals, health systems, physicians, employers, and payers -- to better connect every point of patient engagement.

Conifer Health processes 10 million patient accounts annually, manages $21 billion in annual patient revenue, and provides technology and health management services to support care management for more than three million lives. For more information, call 1-877-CONIFER or visit www.coniferhealth.com.

Conifer Health Solutions, LLC, is a subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE:THC). Some of the statements in this release may constitute forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on our current expectations and could be affected by numerous factors and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, certain of which are discussed in Tenet’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2012, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and periodic reports on Form 8-K. Do not rely on any forward-looking statement, as we cannot predict or control many of the factors that ultimately may affect our ability to achieve the results estimated. We make no promise to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of changes in underlying factors, new information, future events or otherwise.