The healthcare landscape has shifted—permanently. Post-COVID expectations, evolving compliance requirements like the No Surprises Act, and the rise of digital-first healthcare have made it clear: TPAs must operate like tech companies to survive.

The healthcare landscape has shifted—permanently. Post-COVID expectations, evolving compliance requirements like the No Surprises Act, and the rise of digital-first healthcare have made it clear: TPAs must operate like tech companies to survive.
With the state of healthcare, an understanding of healthcare finance and risk management is crucial to creating a flexible software as a service (SaaS) platform, one that TPAs can actually use to improve outcomes—and afford in the first place.
You’ve probably heard it time and again by now—protecting your data is more vital today than ever. Of course, this leads us to the obvious question: what’s the best way to go about ensuring that protection? According to what the IPS team heard at this year’s HCAA Executive Forum, the answer is increased cybersecurity—and investing in the technology to support it.
February 27, 2025 — Integrated Payor Solutions (“IPS”), cloud-based healthcare compliance and administration solutions provider, is excited to announce the successful implementation of the Encompass+ platform with Evolve Association’s third-party administrator (TPA), Harmony.
Regulatory authorities are renewing their focus on HIPAA audits, placing a spotlight on compliance, and healthcare organizations are being urged to pay closer attention to the evolving security landscape. Recently, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed significant updates to the HIPAA Security Rule, marking the first major revisions in over a decade. These changes are designed to address the growing complexity of cybersecurity threats and the increasing need to protect sensitive health information.
As advancements in technology continue to grow, so does the industry’s reliance on them. While AI cannot replace the claims examiner, an aging workforce, coupled with the lack of young professionals entering the field, presents a number of significant challenges for the health benefits space. Learn more by reading our blog.
There are a number of necessary “evils” you have to undergo when you’re a decision-maker in business—it’s just how things go. That doesn’t make them any easier, and that’s especially true in the TPA space. There are plenty of headaches to go around when dealing with the ups and downs of the industry, but one major headache is when it’s time to switch your claims administration operating system.
Let’s be honest—traditional healthcare systems are full of problems that feel impossible to fix. Trying to tackle them all at once is a bit like fighting giants. We all want that magic solution to overhaul the system and make it better for everyone, but believing that one person or company can solve all of healthcare’s problems? That’s a dream, and not a very realistic one.
There’s a better way to approach this challenge—one that doesn’t involve tilting at windmills.
Integrated Payor Solutions (“IPS”), a cloud-based healthcare compliance and administration solutions provider, has designed and launched the tech platform of a Texas-based third-party administrator. Built on IPS’s Encompass+ solution, this TPA achieved integration with Cigna in just 60 days and began processing claims with unmatched flexibility and power in 90 days.
Integrated Payor Solutions (IPS), a benefits administration and compliance solutions provider, is collaborating with tech-powered TPA Yuzu Health (Yuzu) to engineer a new generation of self-funded health plans that enhance and customize member experience, support, and value. Driven by a mutual care to improve the way members and employers handle healthcare and a need for modernized integration and adjudication, Yuzu is leveraging its collaboration with IPS to offer creative plan offerings to the industry’s most forward-thinking employer groups and brokers.
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