As you may have heard, Avalere has joined Inovalon, a company focused on using data to drive better healthcare performance. This new structure will enable us to advance our core mission and to create powerful tools to serve your evolving needs in this dynamic, increasingly data-driven healthcare system.

You know Avalere as a class-leading community of innovative thinkers dedicated to solving the challenges of the healthcare system. Our insights are fueled by a strong data analytics focus, and we understand the value of deploying data on your behalf. This new partnership accelerates our ability to help you with data with access to unique and proprietary commercial data and proven business improvement methods.

Avalere will continue to do everything it does today, including providing class-leading advisory services and business intelligence offerings. We will continue to operate from our Washington, DC, headquarters with staff around the country. Dan Mendelson and the senior team will continue to lead the organization, and they are excited about integrating these new capabilities to expand our offerings and increase our value to our customers.

Inovalon is a leading technology company that combines advanced cloud-based data analytics and data-driven intervention platforms to achieve meaningful insight and impact in clinical and quality outcomes, utilization, and financial performance across the healthcare landscape. Like Avalere, Inovalon has a corporate culture focused on deep subject-matter expertise, thought leadership, and highly meaningful and differentiated value for clients.

We look forward to engaging with you in the coming weeks. If you have any immediate needs or questions, please contact your Avalere liaison or Leila Nowroozi, Reggie Williams, or Nancy McGee.