HealthEdge and ECHO Health Partner to Simplify the Healthcare Payment Process
BURLINGTON, MA AND WESTLAKE, OH, (FEBRUARY 12TH, 2025) – HealthEdge® and ECHO Health (ECHO®) have partnered to simplify and streamline the end-to-end payment process through the integration of HealthEdge HealthRules® Payer and the ECHO payments platform, benefitting health plans, driving electronic adoption, enhancing the provider experience, and accelerating time to value. Health plans can now leverage a single platform for all their payment and remittance activities and connect to a network of more than 1.6M unique payees.
HealthRules Payer claims adjudication system helps improve health plan financial performance, and empowers organizations with the agility to expand their product and service offerings seamlessly, ensuring scalability and adaptability in a rapidly evolving industry. Integrating the ECHO payments platform with HealthRules Payer creates a seamless process from claims adjudication through payment, resulting in a more efficient and faster experience for payers and their provider network. ECHO technology removes complexity and cost from every transaction and automates payment choice for payees.
“Today, our customers have to leverage multiple disparate systems and connections to pay providers,” said Alan Stein, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at HealthEdge. “This integration allows them to send payment information directly from HealthRules Payer to ECHO where they can manage all their payments and remittance delivery activities in one platform to streamline the payment process and enhance provider satisfaction.”
The HealthEdge and ECHO partnership also drives digital adoption of both payment and remittance delivery. Providers can select from a broad range of digital payment and remittance options, including no-cost options, and set payment preferences, ensuring they get paid faster and mitigate security risks.
“Modernizing payments is key to lowering administrative costs and reducing provider network friction,” said Tom Davis, Chief Sales Officer at ECHO. “By embedding finance into the claims adjudication process, we are simplifying digital transformation for HealthEdge customers with our integration and partnership.”
Together, HealthEdge and ECHO are committed to driving digital transformation in healthcare, delivering a more seamless, efficient financial experience for health plans and providers.
About ECHO Health, Inc.
ECHO Health, Inc. is a leading provider of electronic healthcare payment solutions, efficiently connecting payers, vendors, providers and plan members. ECHO’s patented, ERISA, HIPAA and CORE compliant solution addresses the four-payment hurdles payers face: connection, compliance, efficiency and ease of use. ECHO has grown steadily since its founding in 1997, now processing 120+million claims and over $30 billion in payments annually.
For media inquiries, please contact:
HealthEdge Communications Team: pr@healthedge.com
ECHO Communications Team: byoung@echohealthinc.com
About HealthEdge:
HealthEdge® is building a future without limits for health plans, where they can deliver better service and care, make more informed decisions and streamline operations. Through an integrated platform of solutions for core administration (HealthRules® Payer), payment accuracy (HealthEdge Source™), care management (GuidingCare®) and member experience (Wellframe™), health plans can converge their data and harness automation to drive more informed decisions, improve touchless transaction processing and payment accuracy, foster meaningful collaboration and enhance service and care delivery. HealthEdge is trusted by over 130 health plans, covering more than 81 million lives across 48 states. See what it means to converge without limits at HealthEdge.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
About ECHO Health:
ECHO® delivers market-leading payment solutions by removing complexity and cost from every transaction. Our innovative solutions are backed by over 25 years of experience solving diverse payment challenges. These proven solutions address the needs of insurers, service providers, consumers, and technology partners while driving customer satisfaction with payment choice for all payees. We securely distribute $180B in payments and save our customers over $1B each year with seamless, flexible integrations. Learn more at ECHOhealthinc.com and LinkedIn.
