Health Systems Management

What Health Systems Management does

Health Systems Management, Inc. is a privately held healthcare management company founded in 1983 and headquartered in Tifton, Georgia, that provides turnkey outpatient dialysis management services to academic medical centers. The company serves two anchor partners — Emory Healthcare in the Atlanta, Georgia area and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in North Carolina — operating multiple dialysis clinics and delivering care through in-center conventional hemodialysis, short daily hemodialysis, home hemodialysis, NxStage hemodialysis, and peritoneal dialysis modalities.

The company's service portfolio is organized into three integrated pillars: Facility Development (population analysis, site selection, design, contractor selection, project management, regulatory filing, and credentialing for new or acquired dialysis facilities); Clinical Operations (nurse-led facility management with customized staff training across multiple treatment modalities); and Administrative Services (Business Solutions, Human Resources, Revenue Cycle Management, and an Information Technology stack spanning hyper-converged infrastructure, active-active datacenter, disaster recovery, VoIP, cybersecurity, and managed IT services). HSM employs 501-1,000 staff across Georgia and North Carolina.

The business model is managed services revenue derived from long-term enterprise contracts with academic medical center partners. HSM embeds nurse-led clinical teams and administrative infrastructure inside partner facilities, taking responsibility for facility build-out, clinical operations, and back-office functions while the partner retains the patient-facing brand. Pricing is not disclosed; prospective AMC partners initiate engagement via a "Partner With Us" form on the company website.

Name

Health Systems Management

Legal name

Health Systems Management, Inc.

Website

https://healthsystemsinc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Health Systems Management is a privately held, Tifton, Georgia-based healthcare management company founded in 1983 that provides turnkey outpatient dialysis management services — facility development, clinical operations, and administrative services — to academic medical centers including Emory Healthcare and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist across Georgia and North Carolina.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Dialysis Management Services

NAICS

Kidney Dialysis Centers (621492), Ambulatory Health Care Services (621)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Specialty Outpatient Facilities, Nec (8093)

akta.pro primary industry

Outpatient Dialysis & Kidney Care Centers (HLAFABAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Dialysis Services (Hemodialysis & Peritoneal Dialysis) (HLAKAHAC), Home Dialysis Support & Training Providers (HLAFAEAG)

Keywords

• Dialysis management services
• Healthcare facility development
• Clinical operations management
• Administrative healthcare services
• Outpatient dialysis care

Headquarters

HQ city

Tifton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Dialysis Management Services: Turnkey dialysis management services provided to academic medical centers including facility development, clinical operations, and administrative services. Revenue generated through management contracts with healthcare systems.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Health Systems Management provides turnkey outpatient dialysis management services to academic medical centers. Its offering combines three integrated service pillars: Facility Development (population analysis, site selection, design, regulatory filing, credentialing for new or acquired dialysis facilities), Clinical Operations (nurse-led management of in-center and home-based hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis), and Administrative Services (business solutions, HR, revenue cycle management, and IT infrastructure).

Product overview

Health Systems Management is a dialysis management company offering three integrated service pillars: Facility Development (for new or acquired dialysis facilities), Clinical Operations (nurse-led dialysis treatment management), and Administrative Services (business solutions, HR, revenue cycle, and IT). The company provides turnkey management services to partner healthcare organizations, operating dialysis clinics for Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in North Carolina and Emory Healthcare in Georgia. Their service portfolio includes multiple dialysis treatment modalities (in-center hemodialysis, home hemodialysis, and peritoneal dialysis) delivered through a unified partnership model targeting academic medical centers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Facility Development Comprehensive facility development services for new or acquired dialysis facilities, including population analysis, site selection and acquisition, facility need analysis, design, contractor selection, project management, regulatory filing, license management, and credentialing.
• Clinical Operations Operational management of dialysis treatment delivery using a nurse-led facility management model, with staff developed through extensive customized training programs. Covers in-center and home-based hemodialysis modalities.
• Administrative Services Back-office administrative services for partner dialysis facilities, including Business Solutions (financial modeling, cost control, compliance), Human Resources (talent acquisition, training, benefits), Revenue Cycle Management (billing, collections, insurance), and Information Technology (infrastructure, cybersecurity, managed IT).
• Healthcare Partner Services Turnkey dialysis management partnership model combining facility development, clinical operations, and administrative support for academic medical centers, with explicit focus on quality patient care, clinical research advancement, and exceptional service.

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Emory HealthcarecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealth Systems Management provides turnkey dialysis management services to Emory Healthcare dialysis clinics in the Atlanta, Georgia area. This includes facility development, clinical operations, and administrative services for outpatient dialysis facilities.
• Atrium Health Wake Forest BaptistcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealth Systems Management provides turnkey dialysis management services to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist dialysis clinics in North Carolina. This partnership includes clinical operations management and administrative services for dialysis facilities.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• DaVita Kidney Care: DaVita is the largest U.S. outpatient dialysis services provider, operating thousands of centers. It is the dominant incumbent HSM competes against for AMC partnerships and clinician talent, with substantially greater scale and capital.
• American Renal Associates (now DaVita): American Renal Associates was an independent outpatient dialysis operator with similar hospital-partnered clinics; it was acquired by DaVita, illustrating the consolidation pressure HSM faces from national players.
• Fresenius Kidney Care: Fresenius Kidney Care is the other large-scale U.S. dialysis chain and offers turnkey JV and management models to hospitals and health systems. It is the primary scaled competitor to HSM in academic-medical-center dialysis partnerships.

Others

• Compassus: Compassus provides home health, hospice, and palliative services through partnerships with health systems. While not a dialysis operator, it is a comparable healthcare services partner-of-choice model for health systems similar to HSM's.

Direct peers

• Concerto Renal Services: Concerto is a specialty provider of dialysis management services to hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. Its turnkey inpatient and outpatient management model closely mirrors HSM's academic-medical-center partnership model.
• U.S. Renal Care: U.S. Renal Care is a national outpatient dialysis provider operating joint-venture and management partnerships with hospitals and physicians. It is a directly comparable managed-services dialysis peer in the same category as HSM.
• Innovative Renal Care: Innovative Renal Care operates outpatient dialysis centers and provides dialysis management services nationally. It is a directly comparable mid-sized dialysis operator and partnership services peer.
• Dialysis Clinic, Inc. DCI is a non-profit dialysis provider that partners with hospitals to deliver outpatient dialysis. It operates a similar hospital-partnered service model, particularly relevant for academic medical center collaborations.
• Satellite Healthcare: Satellite is a non-profit operator of outpatient dialysis centers and home dialysis programs. It is a comparable peer offering in-center and home modalities through partner-aligned operating models.

Emerging players

• Dialyze Direct: Dialyze Direct provides dialysis services primarily in skilled nursing facilities, overlapping with HSM's dialysis service model in a more focused, niche setting. Comparable as a non-traditional dialysis delivery peer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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