Northwind Acquires QVI Risk Solutions
INDIANAPOLIS, April 28, 2023 - Northwind has announced the
acquisition of QVI Risk Solutions, a health benefit
administrator based in Bend, Oregon.
“The self-funded employers, unions, advisors, and healthcare
providers, with whom we work, feel that the economic and
experiential value of healthcare has become disordered,”
said Phillip Berry, CEO. “They continue to ask us to help
them create options that drive value back to those who pay
for and access the healthcare system.”
“Northwind’s mission is to re-center healthcare around
self-funded payer and employee plan members by leveraging
points of health influence to remove cost, access, and
complexity barriers,” continued Berry. “With our acquisition
of QVI Risk Solutions, we add another piece to our Nexus of
CareTM vision by supplementing our direct contract pharmacy
benefits services with the ability to administer a complete
health plan for our clients. We are building a future that
re-localizes and re-centers healthcare around the
self-funded payer and the employee member.”
QVI Risk Solutions, Inc. (QVI) was founded in 2003, in Bend,
Oregon, to provide Third Party Administrator (TPA) services
to employers who choose to self-fund their employee benefit
program and Business Process Outsourcing services to other
TPAs and commercial health insurers. Led by Founder and CEO
Carolyn Jarschke, QVI has grown to serve thousands of
members and their sponsoring organizations across the
country and will continue to operate out of Bend.
“For 20 years, QVI has shown-up for our clients and their
members by being a good steward of their health and
financial resources. Northwind’s values and vision for the
future align ideally with our own,” said Carolyn Jarschke,
Founder and CEO of QVI. “Quality, value, and innovation,
have been hallmarks of our success and we are excited to
enter this next chapter by joining our story to Northwind’s.
I am thrilled to join Northwind’s leadership team in pursuit
of the mission to remove cost, access, and complexity,
barriers to healthcare for our clients and their members.”
Northwind offers a national pharmacy and health services
platform that brings the logistics of drug distribution and
home delivery pharmacy together with advanced analytics,
pharmacy benefits, health benefits, chronic disease-focused
Clinical Blueprints™, and RxSteward™ software, to help
self-funded plan sponsors create a Nexus of Care™ to
influence healthcare costs and outcomes for their plan
members.