What Stanson Health does

Stanson Health is a clinical decision support (CDS) technology company that operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Premier Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), a publicly traded healthcare improvement company. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Charlotte, NC (within Premier's corporate footprint), Stanson provides AI-enabled solutions to enterprise health systems and payers, including real-time clinical decision alerts embedded in EHR workflows, an HCC coding and documentation suite (CodingCare, CodingGuide, Gaps), automated risk-adjustment coding, an AI-powered prior authorization product, and Premier's Stewardship module, which surfaces lower-cost alternatives to unnecessary labs, medications, and diagnostics. Named customers include Community Health Network, Geisinger, Bon Secours, Bellin, MultiCare, and Atlanticare.

The platform is built around real-time alert delivery and analytics that operate within EHR workflows — notably Epic, where the CodingCare app is currently under construction in the Epic Toolbox marketplace. Stanson's technology processes structured clinical and claims data to identify care gaps, recommend cost-effective alternatives, automate HCC coding, and streamline prior authorization decisions; the company claims an average of $94 in savings per acute care admission as a value metric. Integration with Epic and Premier's broader benchmarking data assets are central to the technical architecture.

Stanson generates revenue primarily through subscription-based enterprise software licensing sold to health systems and payers via Premier's direct field sales organization, with quote-based and enterprise-negotiated pricing rather than published tiers. The company operates within the broader Clinical Decision Support Systems market, which is projected to grow from $2.46 billion in 2025 to $3.89 billion by 2030 at a 9.6% CAGR.

Name

Stanson Health

Legal name

Stanson Health

Website

https://stansonhealth.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Stanson Health, a Premier Inc. subsidiary, provides AI-enabled clinical decision support, HCC coding, risk-adjustment, and prior-authorization solutions to enterprise US health systems and payers, delivered as EHR-embedded workflow software under subscription licensing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Clinical Decision Support Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) – Clinical Decision & Diagnostic Software (HLACANAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Patient Access, Registration & Intake (Front-End RCM) (HLACACAE), SaMD – Monitoring, Triage & Risk Stratification Software (HLACANAE)

Keywords

• Clinical decision support
• Healthcare analytics
• Prior authorization
• HCC coding
• EHR integration

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Clinical Decision Support Software: Subscription-based software licensing for clinical decision support, coding, documentation improvement, and prior authorization solutions sold to health systems and payers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Stanson Health provides AI-enabled clinical decision support software embedded directly within EHR workflows for U.S. health systems and payers. Its product suite delivers real-time alerts and analytics, HCC coding and documentation optimization (CodingCare, CodingGuide, Gaps), automated risk adjustment, AI-powered prior authorization, and clinical stewardship to reduce low-value care. The platform is sold as subscription-based enterprise software licensed through Premier Inc.'s sales organization.

Product overview

Stanson Health is a smart clinical decision support platform offering a comprehensive suite of AI-enabled healthcare technology solutions. The core platform delivers Clinical Decision Support with real-time alerts and analytics, which serves as the foundation for specialized modules including CodingCare (coder and CDI specialist workflow integration), CodingGuide (provider HCC coding engagement), Gaps (care gap identification), Risk Adjustment (HCC coding automation), Prior Authorization (AI-powered approval automation), and Premier's Stewardship (cost optimization through unnecessary care identification). These modules work together to optimize clinical decision-making, coding accuracy and care coordination across health systems and payers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CodingCare: Incorporates coders and documentation improvement specialists into the workflow for pre- and post-encounter documentation.
• CodingGuide
• Gaps

Products and services

• Clinical Decision Support

Quantifiable outcome

• Save an average of $94 per acute care admission with clinical financial decision support
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability7 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Epic SystemscoreTechnology or IntegrationPremier's Stanson Health is developing CodingCare as an application under construction in the Epic Toolbox. This integration will streamline clinical coding with AI within the Epic EHR environment, enabling distribution through Epic's app marketplace to Epic users. The relationship positions Stanson Health as an Epic partner developing certified or approved applications for the Epic ecosystem.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Wolters Kluwer Health: Wolters Kluwer offers Sentri7, UpToDate, and Medi-Span, which are direct competitors in real-time clinical decision support, drug alerts, and evidence-based content embedded in EHR workflows serving the same health-system buyer as Stanson.
• Infinx: Infinx offers AI-driven prior authorization and revenue cycle automation for hospitals and physician groups, competing directly with Stanson's Prior Authorization module on payer-provider workflow integration.
• 3M Health Information Systems: 3M HIS provides coding, CDI, and risk-adjustment software (3M CodeAssist, 360 Encompass) used by the same hospital coders and CDI specialists that Stanson targets with CodingCare and CodingGuide.
• First Databank (FDB): FDB provides drug knowledge and clinical decision support (alerts, screening, dosing) integrated into Epic and other EHRs, directly competing with Stanson's CDS alerts and stewardship capabilities at the point of prescribing.
• Cohere Health: Cohere Health is an AI-powered prior authorization platform serving payers and providers — a direct competitor to Stanson's Prior Authorization module, addressing the same workflow automation and approval-acceleration use cases.
• Elsevier Health: Elsevier's ClinicalPath and ClinicalKey compete with Stanson on evidence-based clinical decision support and order sets used by hospitals to standardize care and reduce low-value treatment — overlapping buyer, workflow, and use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Epic Systems: Epic is both Stanson's distribution partner (Epic Toolbox) and a broad incumbent offering native Best Practice Advisories and CDS modules inside its EHR; Epic is a benchmark for what bundled 'free' CDS looks like and an existential competitor if it deepens AI alerting.
• Change Healthcare (now Optum): Change Healthcare/Optum provides network-based clinical decision support, coding, and prior authorization at scale to large health systems and payers, making it a broad incumbent with overlapping capabilities across Stanson's product suite.

Emerging players

• Agilemd (Olive AI successor / Avizia): Olive (and successor AI healthcare workflow companies) target hospital AI workflow automation including prior authorization and clinical workflow tools — emerging players that compete with Stanson on AI-driven workflow modernization inside health systems.
• Medisolv: Medisolv specializes in quality reporting and HCC/risk-adjustment coding embedded in EHR workflows — a focused competitor to Stanson's HCC/Gaps modules among value-based-care provider customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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