Acurity is an organization of health care professionals committed to helping providers deliver better care and reduce operating expenses through enhanced supply chain performance. Acurity has combined a regional contracting program with the power of national aggregation to deliver a best-in-class purchasing portfolio. Acurity’s leading industry experts identify data-driven methods that optimize hospital and health system resources to improve both quality and the bottom line.
HANYS Solutions provides outstanding decision support tools, operational efficiency methods and technology innovations that help hospitals, health systems and other health care providers to make sound business decisions, enhance their cost-effectiveness and efficiency, improve the quality of health and medical care services and deploy new technologies to meet changing patient and practitioner needs.
The Managed Care Advisory Group is a litigation claim recovery and health plan auditing firm engaged by NSHC to assist its members in filing claims pursuant to settlements such as the Blue Cross settlement on physician payments, the Ingenix settlements on the determination of “usual and customary” charges, pharmaceutical industry settlements over the inflation of average wholesale prices and Visa/MasterCard settlements over transaction fees. NSHC has expanded its relationship with MCAG to offer Contract Payment Review services to its members. CPR enables providers to ensure that reimbursements received from payers meet the negotiated and contract reimbursement rates. MCAG offers its recovery services to NSHC members at a reduced contingency fee.
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Nexera is a health care consulting firm. Nexera ties total costs and care quality to financial reimbursements to deliver value-driven health care business solutions. Nexera’s work is tailored to their clients’ culture and resources to create long-term success. The Nexera service model delivers solutions that are actionable and replicable beyond a consulting engagement to help their clients implement meaningful change. Nexera’s team doesn’t just offer recommendations – they deliver results.
The Reimbursement Alliance Group, LLC provides advisory services to hospital associations, hospitals and health systems on a local and national level. Specifically, RA offers advisory services that focus on hospital Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and regulatory issues. RA’s management team averages more than 20 years of consulting, hospital and intermediary experience. Since 2009, RA has conducted annual audits of NSHC member hospitals’ Medicare wage index data.