To reimagine data to help people live healthy and independent lives through the execution of sophisticated analytics, predictive techniques, and data collection tools.
To deploy sophisticated analytic systems that improve payer and at-risk provider financial performance generating significant ROI.
To better the lives of people by transforming traditional methodologies into multidimensional products and solutions in an evolving and complex healthcare landscape.
We are a compassionate team of leaders and industry experts focused on bringing our customers the best value through our advanced analytical solutions. We strive to enhance our customers’ products and services by providing innovative and transformative knowledge that will increase revenues, contain costs, and help people live healthier and longer lives.
John Criswell is the Founder of Pulse8, a health care data analytics and technology company focused on delivering the highest financial impact for health plans and at-risk providers with ACA commercial, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid populations.
view profileScott led the sales efforts that grew the largest prospective risk adjustment vendor in the Medicare Advantage space eventually leading to the acquisition of the firm with a significant multiple of EBITDA.
view profileCourtney Yeakel is a results-driven leader with a progressive track record of technical and managerial successes with complex government risk-adjustment and payment programs. Courtney joined Pulse8 in 2015 bringing nearly a decade of experience in government program’s health insurance, Courtney led enterprise-wide corporate initiatives focusing on the health plan’s risk adjustment strategy at both the federal and state levels. She was responsible for the execution and oversight of Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA encounter data submissions, intervention strategies, and financial reporting. Courtney has developed and led cross-functional operational teams to ensure both compliance and accurate revenue management.
view profileErin Montgomery has over 17 years of healthcare experience, including 8 years of management experience in risk adjustment operations with various health plans. Erin is a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), where she began her career in a clinical setting and transitioned into Clinical Documentation roles within the inpatient setting, Utilization Management/Utilization Review, and Case Management.
view profileKrista’s 20+ years of experience in trend analysis and strategic planning has a proven history of brand awareness, lead generation, and improved market share. Her intuition, forward-thinking and out-of-the box strategies have help drive brand saturation in the most competitive landscapes.
view profileAmy is responsible for leading Pulse8’s financial planning and budget management functions and for ensuring that company accounting procedures and reporting conform to generally accepted accounting principles. Additionally, Amy assists in establishing short- and long-range company goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures. Amy brings strong leadership, business, and accounting experience to Pulse8, having previously owned her own business for nearly a decade.
view profileScott J. Fries is a well-rounded health care executive having held leadership roles across the payer, provider, and life sciences spectrum. Scott has served as Chief Operating Officer of a national Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) with accountability for specialty pharmacy, mail pharmacy, and pharmacy benefit management functions. He has served as Chief Financial Officer and Clinical Operations of an integrated provider/payer organization serving Medicare and Medicaid members nationally. As an executive consultant, Scott has assisted organizations to evolve their financial, quality, and clinical programs.
view profileScott Stratton is an industry leader in the design and development of products, technologies, business processes, and analytics. His focus is on collecting, integrating, organizing, mining, and modeling data to develop and optimize product development, sales, and profitability.
view profileChris provides strategic direction and support of risk adjustment activities. He monitors quality management activities and acts as the liaison with IT regarding data transfer and integrity. Chris is considered an expert in Risk Adjustment and has worked with multiple large group practices to identify internal barriers of adoption and developed strategies to drive improvement in documentation of HCC’s, coding, and improving HEDIS quality scores.
view profileWarren is responsible for driving the Sales Strategy and Tactical Marketing efforts needed to extend Pulse8’s sales momentum in its core markets and expand into new markets. In his role, Warren leverages his wealth of experience in healthcare business development for data-driven firms addressing the inter-related areas of risk adjustment, data analytics, and quality metrics. Warren brings knowledge, tenacity, and creativity to our Sales & Marketing team, along with exemplary communication skills – written, verbal, and conceptual.
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