Scott Friesen

Founder | Chief Executive Officer

Abax Health

Aug 2022 - Current (3 years 11 months)

Each week, physicians see hundreds of thousands of patients and refer a percentage of them to specialists for additional testing and procedures. 30% of those referrals never get scheduled or patients go to a competing health system to get care, creating billions of dollars of untapped revenue annually. Abax Health is the premier AI-driven, technology-enabled patient access platform and services firm, revolutionizing the way healthcare providers streamline patient access departments and maximize referral-based revenue. Our industry defining AI powered technology empowers providers across the U.S. to increase revenue, reduce administrative burdens, and improve the patient experience, ensuring seamless, data-driven access to care. With an

Founder | Managing Director

Westport Health

Jun 2020 - Current (6 years 1 month)

Westport Health is an early-stage venture capital firm focused exclusively on helping founders realize their vision and build market leading companies.

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Founder | Chief Executive Officer

Newport Credentialing Solutions Acquired

Sep 2009 - Jun 2019 (9 years 10 months)

Newport Credentialing Solutions is the nation’s premier provider of cloud-based software and services dedicated to the credentialing life cycle. Newport provides cloud-based workflow, analytics, and business intelligence credentialing software and cloud-enabled, NCQA accredited, CVO and provider enrollment services to some of the largest health systems, IDNs, academic medical centers, and multi-specialty medical groups in the United States. Serving over 180,000 providers, Newport was ranked #1 in Credentialing and Privileging by Black Book Research in 2018, 2019, 2020. Newport was acquired by TractManager in 2018 and then by symplr in 2020.

Advisor

Science House

Sep 2009 - Feb 2018 (8 years 6 months)

Science House is an organization dedicated to promoting science throughout the world. The organization is currently hosting talks and workshops on scientific and business topics. The investment arm of the organization makes seed stage investments in high tech companies in a number of different industries. And the Science House Foundation funds projects which get kids excited about science.

Regional Vice President

Sutherland Healthcare Solutions

Apr 2008 - Sep 2009 (1 year 6 months)

Developed and ran business development efforts for physician and academic medical center full business outsourcing solutions.

Assistant Vice President

Apollo Health Street

Apr 2006 - Sep 2009 (3 years 6 months)

Senior Associate

Huron

Apr 2003 - Apr 2006 (3 years 1 month)

Worked with a team of revenue cycle turn around experts to accelerate cash collections and improve processes for health system and academic medical centers.

Consultant

PwC

Apr 2001 - Apr 2003 (2 years 1 month)

Worked with a team of revenue cycle turn around experts to accelerate cash collections and improve processes for health system and academic medical centers.

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Inventor

Walker Digital

Apr 2000 - Apr 2001 (1 year 1 month)

14 Granted USPTO patents Identified industry specific business challenges Invented business solutions to those challenges Drafted and filed provisional and business method patent applications on those business solutions Negotiated with patent lawyers and the USPTO to receive patent protection on those business solutions Launched commercialization efforts based on granted patents Deep experience with market and patent research, provisional and business method patent development and submission to USPTO, patent attorneys, commercialization, and university tech transfer departments

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