March 18, 2021 – Valify Solutions Group (Frisco, TX) announced that Les Popiolek has been appointed CEO of Valify and Valify Solutions Group.
Prior to serving as Valify’s COO, Popiolek held prominent roles in healthcare purchasing for over 25 years. He was part of the conceptualization and startup of Broadlane GPO and the launch of BroadLink, one of the industry’s early B2B e-commerce exchanges. Following the acquisition of Broadlane in 2010 by MedAssets, Popiolek led the integration of GPO portfolios totaling $35 billion in annual customer spend.
Popiolek replaces Chris Heckler who announced his decision to pursue new opportunities after seven years leading the technology and analytics platform, and the GPO. Heckler steps down after nearly 20 years in the healthcare purchased services space and having served as director of purchased services for a Texas regional purchasing coalition.
Valify, an affiliated company of HCA Healthcare, is the only healthcare cost management company exclusively dedicated to managing purchased services expense. Valify’s web-based technology platform uses proprietary machine learning algorithms which allow organizations to quickly identify and manage savings opportunities in over 1,200 purchased services categories. The Valify technology categorizes spend data, identifies savings opportunities and benchmarks against a database of over $460 billion in categorized spend. With a leading end-to-end cost management solution, Valify helps thousands of hospitals proactively manage expenses, increase staff productivity and realize significant savings.