< + > Kyndryl Announces Agreement to Purchase Healthcare IT Leaders, LLC | EnableComp Acquires Helix Advisory

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Kyndryl Announces Agreement to Purchase Healthcare IT Leaders, LLC, to Accelerate AI-Led Modernization

Planned Acquisition to Strengthen Kyndryl’s Ability to Serve U.S. Healthcare Organizations Across Applications, Infrastructure, and AI

Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission‑critical enterprise technology services, today announced its intent to acquire Healthcare IT Leaders, LLC, an enterprise IT services provider for hospitals and health systems. The acquisition will enable Kyndryl to more effectively address growing customer demand for its AI‑led business modernization across healthcare providers and payors by leveraging Healthcare IT Leaders’ healthcare consulting and application managed services expertise.

“Healthcare organizations are under increasing pressure to advance complex clinical, operational and workforce systems while maintaining resiliency, security and compliance,” said Jamie Rutledge, President of Kyndryl U.S. “By combining Healthcare IT Leaders’ healthcare consulting expertise with Kyndryl’s AI-led modernization capabilities, we will be better positioned to support providers and payors.”

Following the close of the acquisition, Kyndryl will combine Healthcare IT Leaders’ consulting expertise in applications across clinical, operational, and workforce platforms with Kyndryl’s infrastructure leadership and AI capabilities to enable healthcare organizations to work with a single provider across applications, platforms, and underlying IT environments.

Kyndryl already supports a broad set of healthcare organizations by running large-scale, highly regulated IT environments across the U.S. The addition of Healthcare IT Leaders’ business will deepen Kyndryl’s relationships with leading national healthcare systems and expand Kyndryl’s access to the application and consulting layer of those environments. Together, the two companies will…

Full release here, originally announced August 10th, 2026.

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EnableComp Acquires Helix Advisory, Advancing Zero Balance Review Technology in Its Complex Revenue Recovery Platform

Hospitals No Longer Leave Money on the Table Because a Claim is Too Small, Too Complex

EnableComp, the leading provider of technology-driven complex revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions, today announced its acquisition of Helix Advisory, a Cincinnati-based revenue recovery firm whose technology identifies underpayments that traditional rules-based audit systems are structurally unable to catch.

The investment expands EnableComp’s Zero Balance Review capabilities as part of its broader platform roadmap. The acquisition strengthens EnableComp’s platform with three specific capabilities:

• the ability to identify underpayments that standard audit logic cannot see
• clinical signal detection that flags discrepancies between how a case was coded and what a payer actually reimbursed
• root-cause analytics that trace why an underpayment occurred, so clients can prevent future losses, not just recover past ones

For EnableComp’s hospital clients, the integration means underpayment recovery that previously required a standalone audit vendor — or that didn’t happen at all because the claim fell below a manual review threshold — now runs natively inside the same platform handling their complex claims and denials.

“Most recovery programs are built to find what they’re told to look for. Helix’s technology finds what nobody told it to look for — that’s the difference between a rules engine and real intelligence,” said Frank Forte, CEO at EnableComp…

Full release here, originally announced August 12th, 2026.