Bringing Clarity to Healthcare Payments with Ted Ferrin, SVP of Payments Innovation at Zelis

About this episode

Ted Ferrin discusses the challenges of achieving financial clarity in healthcare payments due to structural fragmentation and how Zelis is addressing these issues.

Healthcare payments are often discussed as a transparency problem, but the deeper issue is structural fragmentation across contracts, claims, remittances, and workflows. In this episode, Ted Ferrin, Senior Vice President of Payments Innovation at Zelis, explains how the acquisition of Rivet is bringing provider-facing payment intelligence into Zelis’s broader infrastructure. He discusses why achieving financial clarity between payers and providers has been so difficult due to fragmented systems and legacy technology. Ted highlights that true transparency goes beyond simply displaying data and requires meaningful, actionable insights. He also shares how tools like Claims Insights and Zap Edge embed intelligence into payment workflows to reduce rework, improve visibility, and create a smoother experience for providers, payers, and patients. Tune in and learn how better payment intelligence could help turn transparency from a buzzword into real operational trust! Resources: Connect with and follow Ted Ferrin on LinkedIn. Follow Zelis on LinkedIn and visit their website!

People in this episode

Host: Saul Marquez

Guest: Ted Ferrin

Topics covered

• healthcare payments
• payment transparency
• financial clarity
• provider-facing payment intelligence
• claims insights
• payment workflows

Keywords

• healthcare payments
• transparency
• payment intelligence
• claims insights
• Zelis
• Rivet
• financial clarity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Zelis, Rivet

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