The Karis Group

What The Karis Group does

The Karis Group, now operating as GetAdvocacy, is an Austin, Texas-based patient advocacy and medical bill negotiation firm founded in 1996. The company reduces out-of-pocket medical costs for patients and members by negotiating directly with healthcare providers on billed charges, claiming an average 65% discount on such charges. Following the merger of Point HealthTech with The Karis Group, the rebranded GetAdvocacy entity consolidates advocacy and health-tech operations under a single brand at getadvocacy.com, operating under a DBA relationship with Health Admins and TRU HealthGroup.

The firm serves a diversified set of healthcare buyers: Health Care Sharing programs, self-funded employer health plans, third-party administrators (TPAs), healthcare providers, and individual members. Its core service is human-led negotiation backed by 25+ years of combined negotiation experience; there is no indication of proprietary automation, AI, or software platform in the input data. Go-to-market is sales-led and direct, delivered through phone, SMS, and email outreach to prospects and channel partners.

Revenue is generated through professional service fees tied to negotiation outcomes and ongoing advocacy engagements. The company employs between 51 and 100 people, is privately held, and has no disclosed external funding rounds, revenue figures, or patents in the available data. Tony Dale serves as Founder & Chairman, providing leadership continuity through the merger and rebrand.

Name

The Karis Group

Website

https://thekarisgroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

The Karis Group (now GetAdvocacy) is an Austin-based patient advocacy and medical bill negotiation firm serving Health Care Sharing programs, self-funded plans, TPAs, healthcare providers, and individuals, claiming 65% average discounts on billed charges.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Advocacy Services

NAICS

Health Care and Social Assistance (62), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Hospital & Medical Service Plans (6324), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Billing & Patient Payments Presentment (FSAMAJAH)

Keywords

• Medical bill negotiation
• Patient advocacy services
• Healthcare cost containment
• Healthcare navigation
• Bill mediation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Austin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Advocacy and Negotiation Services: The company generates revenue by providing medical bill negotiation and healthcare navigation services to individuals, Health Care Sharing programs, self-funded plans, TPAs, and healthcare providers. Services include pre-service provider matching with transparent pricing and post-service bill negotiation resulting in average 65% discounts on billed charges.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The Karis Group (now operating as GetAdvocacy) delivers patient advocacy and medical bill negotiation services that reduce healthcare costs for individual members, Health Care Sharing programs, self-funded employer plans, third party administrators, and healthcare providers. Its offering combines pre-service provider matching with transparent pricing and post-service bill negotiation, achieving an average 65% discount on billed charges while ensuring providers are fairly compensated through bundled service arrangements.

Product overview

GetAdvocacy is a single unified patient advocacy platform that combines medical bill negotiation and healthcare navigation services. The platform offers pre-service provider matching (finding providers with transparent, fair pricing based on patient preferences like distance, gender, or specialty) and post-service bill negotiation (leveraging over 25 years of negotiation experience to obtain discounts on billed charges). The company claims an average of 65% discounts on billed charges and negotiates bundled services at rates that benefit both patients and providers. Target customers include members of Health Care Sharing programs, organizations managing self-funded plans, TPAs (Third Party Administrators), and healthcare providers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• GetAdvocacy Patient Advocacy & Bill Negotiation

Quantifiable outcome

• 65% average discount on billed charges
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Point HealthTechcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPoint HealthTech merged with The Karis Group to form GetAdvocacy. This represents a strategic consolidation combining patient advocacy and medical bill negotiation capabilities.
• Health Admins/TRU HealthGroup CompaniescoreOthersHealth Admins/TRU HealthGroup companies operate under the DBA GetAdvocacy brand. This parent/affiliate relationship provides organizational structure for the healthcare advocacy and negotiation services.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Turquoise Health: Turquoise Health operates a healthcare price transparency marketplace leveraging the CMS price transparency rule. It is a complementary/competing approach to Karis's pre-service provider matching and bundled-service negotiation capabilities.
• Goodbill: Goodbill is a digital-first medical bill negotiation platform serving patients and employer plans, representing the technology-enabled evolution of Karis's traditional advocacy model. It competes for the same payer-side cost-containment budget.
• Lantern (formerly Quest Analytics / Activate Healthcare): Lantern provides healthcare navigation, transparency, and cost-saving services to employers and health plans. Its navigation-plus-pricing approach competes with Karis's dual pre/post-service model for similar payer and self-funded customers.

Direct peers

• HealthComp Holdings: HealthComp is a third-party administrator offering self-funded plan management with integrated cost-containment services including bill review and provider negotiation, directly overlapping with Karis's TPA and self-funded customer segment.
• Medical Cost Advocate: Medical Cost Advocate negotiates medical bills and reviews insurance claims for individuals and employer groups, a directly comparable service model to Karis's bill negotiation and health navigation offerings.
• CoPatient: CoPatient provides post-service medical bill review and negotiation services for consumers and employers, overlapping directly with Karis's 65% discount negotiation model. Both target the same cost-containment use case across self-funded populations.
• Health Advocate (Healtheon/Health Advocate Solutions): Health Advocate is a leading patient advocacy and medical bill negotiation service offered as an employee benefit, directly mirroring Karis's core offering of provider navigation, healthcare system guidance, and bill mediation for individuals and employer-sponsored plans.

Broad incumbents

• Zelis: Zelis is a large healthcare cost management platform offering claims cost management, network solutions, and payment integrity to payers and TPAs. It is a broader incumbent whose payment integrity and savings products overlap with Karis's negotiation focus.
• MultiPlan: MultiPlan is a large cost-containment and PPO network provider offering negotiation-based savings, bill review, and repricing services to payers and TPAs — a broad incumbent whose negotiation product competes with Karis's negotiation capability.
• Alight Health Navigator / Alight Healthcare Navigation: Alight's healthcare navigation and advocacy services for employer benefits compete with Karis's health navigation and bill negotiation capabilities, especially within self-funded plan and TPA partnerships.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/karisgroup
• Facebookfacebook.com/thekarisgroup
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-karis-group

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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