Impact stories

Tackling the paper problem for providers by launching a Healthcare payments business

A large healthcare technology player with solutions in provider-payor transactions has a vision to tackle inefficiency in healthcare, starting with addressing the $350B paper check problem with a provider-facing solution

The shift to electronic payments not only increases the speed of payments, but also reduce manual effort and errors in processing checks and reconciling remittance information

The challenge

Product need for interoperability with 2,000+ payors and 1M+ healthcare providers

Aspiration to create a fully digital experience to engage, enroll, and support provider customers

The journey

Holistic 24-month business building partnership

Blueprint:​ Set aspiration for business, scope for MVP product build, and resource needs

Build:​ One team mentality with embedded 5-8 Leap practitioners:

  • Leap Product owners to accelerate productivity of engineering teams (both 3rd party and internal) and manage monthly releases
  • Agile GTM war room leaders across print, email, sales, business dev
  • Interim COO and CTO roles

Boost:​ Established capabilities to accelerate releases for 3 product areas and to launch 2-week campaigns

Impact

$100M

Aspiration for business, starting from scratch

5,000+

Customers enrolled in first 6 months of scale-up / Boost

4

Months to MVP launch (accelerated from 7 months)

7

Product releases in first 6 months

30+

GTM campaigns launched in first 6 months (1+ per week)

50+

Client resources partially or fully dedicated to new business after first 6 months

Capability spotlight

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