Blaze Advisors

What Blaze Advisors does

Blaze Advisors is a privately held, for-profit healthcare consulting firm headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 2016 and operating with 11-50 employees, the firm specializes in analyzing, implementing, and automating care management programs for healthcare providers and hospitals. Its service offering sits at the intersection of care management advisory and operational automation, targeting the hospital and healthcare vertical. Leadership is anchored by CEO Mike Rhoades and COO/CXO Kathy Smith.

The input data is heavily oriented toward a related or partner entity, Alera Health, which operates a model of clinically integrated networks (CINs) branded as ONEcare Networks. These networks connect medical, behavioral health, hospital, and social care providers across multiple U.S. states, with named active networks in North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia, and Arizona, and states in assemblage or planning across 35+ additional jurisdictions. Alera Health's supporting infrastructure includes SOC 2 Type II certification, a Care Optimization Suite, the ONEcare Population Health Academy (educational platform), and an Annual ONEcare Symposium. Whether Blaze Advisors operates as an implementation partner, services arm, or independent consultancy within this broader ecosystem is not clarified in the source material.

Pricing, revenue model, and contract mechanics are not publicly disclosed for either entity. No funding rounds, investor backing, parent company structure, or financial milestones were reported. Customer concentration is undisclosed for Blaze Advisors, and no named customer logos or case studies were provided. The combined data picture suggests Blaze Advisors is a small-domain specialist operating in a healthcare care management market where larger clinically integrated network builders (such as the Alera Health ecosystem) are scaling geographically and by network density.

Name

Blaze Advisors

Legal name

Alera Health

Website

https://blazeadvisors.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Blaze Advisors is a privately held healthcare consulting firm, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, specializing in analyzing, implementing, and automating care management programs for hospitals and healthcare providers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Wilmington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Blaze Advisors provides advisory and consulting services that focus on analyzing, implementing, and automating care management programs for healthcare organizations and hospitals. The firm engages with provider clients on care management operations rather than selling a packaged software product or manufactured good.

Product overview

Alera Health offers a unified portfolio built around its ONEcare Network platform — clinically integrated networks (CINs) that connect medical, behavioral, and social care providers. The core ONEcare Networks product is supplemented by the ONEcare Population Health Academy (educational resources) and the Care Optimization Suite (care coordination tools). The company also hosts the Annual ONEcare Symposium. Alera Health's solutions focus on individuals with polychronic behavioral and medical conditions, who are 3.5–6x more expensive to treat.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ONEcare: A clinically integrated network model that unites medical, behavioral, and social care organizations to create healthier communities.
• ONEcare Population Health Academy

Quantifiable outcome

• 56.5% of total healthcare expenditures attributed to 27% of individuals with behavioral health diagnosis (Milliman study of 21M lives)
• +1 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and regional.

• Children First of North Carolina, LLCcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNorth Carolina-based ONEcare Network partner organization focused on children's health services, part of active ONEcare Network in North Carolina.
• NCONEcare, LLCcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNorth Carolina ONEcare Network partner operating within Alera Health's clinically integrated network structure in North Carolina.
• Ohio Behavioral Healthcare Provider Network (OBHPN)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOhio-based network partner in Alera Health's ONEcare Network covering behavioral healthcare providers across Ohio.
• Indiana Care Alliance, LLCcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerActive ONEcare Network partner in Indiana, one of the primary active networks in the Alera Health portfolio.
• ONEcare Network of GeorgiacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGeorgia-based ONEcare Network partner operating as an active clinically integrated network in the state.
• Affiliated Network Partners (ANP) - ArizonacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArizona-based network partner within the ONEcare Network structure covering affiliated providers.
• Integral Health Network of Southern Arizona (IHNSA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSouthern Arizona network partner specializing in integrated health services within the ONEcare Network framework.
• ONEcare Network in AssemblageregionalStrategic or Co-development PartnerStates in network assemblage phase including Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut where provider alignment is underway.
• ONEcare Network in Planning/DevelopmentregionalStrategic or Co-development PartnerStates in planning/development including Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, Texas, Maine, Michigan, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Pivot Point Consulting: A healthcare IT and operations consulting firm of similar size that provides advisory, implementation, and managed services to hospitals, MCOs, and clinically integrated networks. Highly comparable in scope, customer base, and care management focus.
• Kaufman Hall: Specialized advisor to hospitals and health systems on strategy, financial planning, and care delivery transformation including population health and value-based care. Comparable as a focused healthcare consultancy serving providers and MCOs.
• The Chartis Group: Healthcare-focused consulting firm advising providers, payers, and integrated delivery networks on strategy, clinical integration, and care model redesign. Direct overlap with Blaze's clinically integrated network and care management remit.
• Impact Advisors: Mid-sized healthcare IT and operations consultancy providing implementation, advisory, and managed services to hospitals, health systems, and clinically integrated networks. Highly comparable to Blaze in size, healthcare vertical focus, and analytics/care-coordination orientation.
• Nordic Consulting: An independent healthcare-focused consulting firm specializing in EHR implementations, analytics, and care management optimization for hospitals and health systems. Directly comparable to Blaze Advisors in size, vertical focus, and implementation/automation orientation.
• Premier Healthcare Consulting: Healthcare performance improvement consultancy serving hospitals and health systems on care delivery, population health, and value-based care. Comparable in target buyer (provider leadership), care management focus, and data/analytics orientation.
• Cumberland Consulting Group: Healthcare technology implementation and advisory firm of comparable size focused on payers, providers, and pharmacy benefit organizations. Direct overlap with Blaze's care management automation/implementation niche for healthcare buyers.

Broad incumbents

• Accenture Healthcare: Large global consultancy with a dedicated health practice serving providers, payers, and public-sector health agencies on digital transformation, care management, and operating model redesign. Overlaps with Blaze's care management implementation and automation remit at much larger scale.
• Optum Advisory Services: The advisory arm of UnitedHealth/Optum serving payers, providers, and life sciences firms with strategy, analytics, and care management consulting at significantly greater scale than Blaze. Overlaps on healthcare care management analytics and integrated delivery transformation but as part of a much broader portfolio.
• Deloitte Healthcare Consulting: One of the Big Four advisory practices serving health systems, payers, and government health programs on transformation, M&A, and care management modernization. Overlaps with Blaze's providers-and-MCOs buyer pool but at vastly greater scale and breadth.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@AleraHealth
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/alerahealth
• Xx.com/blazeadvisors

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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