STONY BROOK, N.Y. and DENVER, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Softheon, a leading cloud-based eligibility, enrollment, and billing provider for health plans and government agencies, has acquired NextHealth Technologies, an AI-powered SaaS-based healthcare analytics platform. With the acquisition, Softheon will be better able to help health plans sell and deliver efficient, high-quality care through synergies in the companies’ respective products and solutions. Health plans cans save tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars on medical and operational costs through Softheon’s growing suite of solutions.
The acquisition significantly enhances Softheon’s talent density, enhancing go-to-market strategies, engineering processes, and leadership. The overall speed and capability of NextHealth’s AI solutions will increase through Softheon’s propriety technology.
Softheon CEO, Eugene Sayan, will continue to lead the company. Eric Grossman, NextHealth’s founder, has become the combined organization’s Chief Commercial Officer, supporting Sayan’s vision and the company’s growth objectives.
Sayan shared, “Artificial Intelligence in healthcare is here, and we are seeing the incredible impact it can have on both members and carriers. Our goal has been to make healthcare more affordable, accessible, and plentiful, and we see AI as a clear path forward to bring efficiencies to our carrier partners. This acquisition is a testament to Softheon’s commitment to helping health plans tackle some of their biggest challenges, such as population health and the movement toward consumerism in healthcare.”
NextHealth Technologies, founded in 2013, offers a cloud-based platform that utilizes rigorous methodologies and standardized processes to enable health plan customers to identify impactable populations, measure which clinical initiatives work best for whom, and integrate data-driven decisions into the workflow in real-time to derive the highest ROI from their analytics investments.
