THA Solutions Group Vendors

ID Theft Solutions of America

Hospitals are incurring increased expenses in complying with complex new privacy laws– the Red Flags Rule under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA), HITECH and recent HIPAA changes. With electronic medical records deployment and identity theft on the rise, protecting privacy has become more important than ever.

With more than 50% of identity theft breaches coming from within the workplace, this program helps hospitals stay up-to-code through its on-site risk assessment, development & implementation of hospital ID Theft Security & Privacy Policy and employee training.

This program is available at no-cost to THA Members.

Merritt Hawkins & Associates/Staff Care

Merritt Hawkins & Associates® permanent physician placement services fill more physician jobs than any company in the industry. In addition to being the nation’s leader in physician employment search and consulting services, MHA also recruit’s and places select allied health professionals. Merritt Hawkins creates enduring matches between healthcare organizations and candidates.

API Healthcare (formerly Concerro)

API Healthcare offers the only healthcare management systems that improve both quality of life and your bottom line. Key benefits include:

• Online scheduling
• Open shift management
• Patient acuity
• eEergency preparedness solutions
• Effectively managing and communicate with your staff

Med Assets

MedAssets’ comprehensive financial performance solutions improve Hospitals’ operating margins and cash flow, increasing a typical health systems’ net patient revenue by 1-3% and decrease supply expense by 3-10%. MedAssets helps healthcare providers find cash from existing operations and improve margins so you can continue to serve your community.

Commerce Bank

Commerce Bank, a leading financial services company offers ControlPay® which automates Accounts Payable and offers revenue share to hospitals on a monthly basis.

Regional Staffing Program of Tennessee

Regional Staffing Program of Tennessee is a cooperative to meet the challenges of managing a dynamic workforce. THA is one of seven state hospital associations aggregating resources, tailored to meet members’ needs. Key benefits include:

• Eliminate costs associated with negotiation and administration of contracts
  • Compensation for “no shows” and non-qualified candidates.
  • No penalty to hire
  • Standard contract with standard terms
  • Pre-negotiated with agencies on your behalf
  • Manages multiple agencies
  • Online reporting capabilities simplifies tracking of agency utilization
  • Ongoing performance evaluations of companies and candidates
• Facilitates competitive and transparent agency pricing
  • Eliminate the negotiation process resulting in multiple contracts

Healthcare Performance Partners

Healthcare Performance Partners (HPP) helps the healthcare workforce see its work with new eyes. Its solutions combine Lean Healthcare, Six Sigma, and other effective methods for managing change to help generate significant sustainable improvements in patient safety and quality outcomes including readmission reduction, patient and staff satisfaction, and financial savings. HPP helps Hospitals achieve a smoother running organization that has more satisfied patients, more invested staff and physicians, and an improved bottom line.

First Financial

While most financiers simply broker leasing services for other banks, First Financial invests its own capital, only ceding excess (typically over $10m). This allows First Financial to offer terms when other institutions decline. First Financial also owns an equipment refurbishment and resale business. Therefore, First Financial treats the financed equipment and property as equity, rather than collateral, allowing it to offer more attractive rates to lessees.

First Financial Services Offer:

• Operating Leases
• Capital Leases
• Equipment Leasebacks
• Project Finance
• Refurbished Equipment

NAVEOS (formerly DSH)

NAVEOS offers full cycle Disproportionate Share management and optimization.

NAVEOS’s proprietary, Medicaid Disproportionate Share System (MDSS®) is the only system in the industry that provides a turn-key solution for DSH and 340b qualification. NAVEOS has distinguished itself from the competition by driving significant financial improvement.

Ward Financial Advisory Group of Wells Fargo Advisors

Ward Financial Advisory Group of Wells Fargo Advisors provides independent, unbiased advice and guidance to a broad client base. Based in Nashville, the team serves a diverse clientele and offers an extensive range of services.

Our areas of focus includes...

• retirement plan consulting
• employee education
• corporate and institutional services
• investment planning
• portfolio management for individuals

Ward Financial Advisory Group is committed to helping you plan and build on a vision designed to keep your strategy competitive in today's marketplace - and in the future.

SUNRx

The 340b Retail Pharmacy Program is the newest Solutions Group venture. This program came about as a result of changes in the 340b regulations that now allow qualified hospitals to contract with outside pharmacies to provide 340b priced drugs to the hospital’s outpatients. Solutions Group has partnered with SUNRx to provide administrative services for this program to member hospitals.

Kentucky Hospital Insurance Company

The Kentucky Hospital Insurance Company (KHIC) is a captive owned by member Hospitals. KHIC provides professional, general and umbrella liability to its members. The company is governed by its membership and has a management contract with KHA Solutions Group.

ARMSRx

THA is pleased to bring its members the THA Pharmacy benefit program, which features transparency, aggressively leveraged discounts on brand name and generic drugs. Greater rebate dollars are delivered, utilizing mail order pharmacy and specialty pharmacy services.

Program features:

• Multi-state volume discounts on pharmacy benefit costs
• Stringent Performance Guarantees
• Monitoring for Quality Assurance
• Use of in-house pharmacy and mail order
• Complete transparency with full disclosure
• Data interpretation and online reporting
• Dedicated account managment team
• Access to 100% of all rebates
• Aggressive discounts
• Lowest net cost program

Verified Credentials

Trusted for more than 27 years by thousands of leading companies and organizations nationwide, Verified Credentials is the recognized leader in background screening. Serving over 100 health care organizations and 300 health science education programs in Tennessee, Verified Credentials’ experience and knowledge provides THA members with time-saving, robust background screening solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of each organization.

Verified Credentials delivers background screening services with:

• Easy-to-use, Value-driven Technology Solutions
• Fast Turnaround Times and Accurate Reporting
• Responsive, Knowledgeable Customer Service Team

LBMC Security Services

Information security is a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week, 365-days-a-year job. Failing to properly monitor and respond in real-time to threats exposes your organization, clients and business partners to risks that could do significant harm to your company. LBMC Security Services provides a complete, cost-effective system to block potential threats.

By monitoring 24 / 7 / 365 using experienced IT security professionals, LBMC Security Services has proven to be effective in detecting and preventing intrusions into company networks. LBMC Security Services is a cost-effective, professional solution delivering world-class results.

DocuVoice

DocuVoice maximizes the reimbursement dollars to hospitals from Medicare, Medicaid and DRG based payers, and assure documentation compliance to meet government and industry standards.

DocuVoice offers

• Physician conducted DRG audit services
• Chart Review
• ICD-10 assessment and training services
• Medical Necessity Review
• Coding
• Transcription

Gallagher

Retail Property/Casualty Brokerage
As one of the world's largest brokers, Gallagher delivers a full range of insurance and risk management products and services, including traditional and loss-sensitive coverage’s.

Benefits Brokerage and Consulting
Our benefits brokers and consultants understand the value of building relationships, providing superior, cost-effective benefit products and services that meet the ever-changing needs of our clients.

Claims Management
Our property/casualty third-party administrator helps clients reduce their exposures to risk and the steep costs that can go with them.

Wholesale Property/Casualty Brokerage
Our wholesale teams bring three critical assets to every insurance transaction—a broad base of strong market relationships for every line of business, a skilled team of first-class experts, and an unmatched dedication to service.

LifeWings Partners LLC

LifeWings Partners LLC is the world leader in creating patient safety systems that are the right thing for the patient, and the bottom line. Recent clients have produced these Return On Investment results with their LifeWings patient safety implementations. LifeWings is a team of physicians, nurses, former NASA astronauts, former military flight surgeons, pilots, and healthcare risk managers. With LifeWings, over 140 health hospitals world-wide have implemented the best practices of high reliability organizations including:

• TeamSTEPPS
• CRM
• Process Improvement
• Checklists
• Just Culture
• "Stop-the-line"
• Culture of Safety
• $1.2M saved with less OR waste
• $2M saved in agency costs
• $510K saved in turnover costs
• $696K saved with process improvements

Charter Business

Charter provides a full range of advanced broadband services and solutions to businesses and is expanding in the healthcare industry. All services are delivered over its state-of-the-art network, and backed by professional customer service and support from local technicians.

Charter's technology allows it to offer scalable service:

• Fiber Internet from 2Mbps up to 1Gbps and optical Ethernet from 10Mbps to 1Gbps.
• Bandwidth scales quickly and easily, usually without any additional construction or even a site visit.
• A single fiber connection for data, internet, voice communications and/or video eliminates the need to maintain multiple networks or manage multiple vendors.