Baton Rouge and the Cutting Edge of Healthcare - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

Navigating the ever changing and uncertain healthcare landscape can
be a nightmare for providers and businesses alike. It s also an
opportunity for entrepreneurs, who have come up with ways to help
others make sense of what s going on out there. Incredibly, two of
the leading tech health companies in the nation are right here in
Baton Rouge. Cindy Heine is President and Principal of SyncStream
Solutions. It s a Baton Rouge based company that was founded three
years ago to help employers both navigate the complex regulations
governing the Affordable Care Act and to electronically file the
massive amounts of documentation required by the law. In that short
amount of time, the company has grown from a staff of three
employees to more than 40, with offices in Baton Rouge and
Metairie. It has also created its own proprietary software that it
private labels to other companies around the country. Blaine
Lindsey is the executive director, chairman and southeast division
head of Aledade Louisiana, the local branch of a national company
based in Bethesda, Maryland that helps primary care providers
doctors and hospitals move away from the fee for service model,
which is the way we re used to, to a value based health care
system, which is the way of the future. Aledade was founded in
2014, and in just those three years has expanded its operations
into 15 states, where it is in partnership with more than 200,000
patients in some 200 practices. Blaine has helped lead the growth
in Louisiana, where it has some 6,000 patients through its
partnership with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. Photos at
Mansurs on the Boulevard by Ken Stewart.

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