PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Transparent Health Marketplace, Inc. (THM), the leading transformative healthtech company, today announced that industry veteran and nationally recognized leader, Matthew Padden, joins as Chief Client Officer, Senior Vice President of Sales. With over 30 years of experience in leadership roles with demonstrated success in acquiring, managing, and expanding key healthcare client relationships, Padden has a proven record of driving growth while delivering highly sought-after, innovative solutions.
Padden joins at a time where market demand for price transparency and faster speed to quality care for patients is at an all-time high. Leading THM’s national client management and sales efforts, Padden will play an integral role in partnering with premiere C-level payor clients to activate THM’s digital marketplace and achieve total transparency, accelerated care, new levels of real-time, actionable data insights, and substantial savings.
“We are navigating a time of rapid transformation in the industry, with evolving provider needs, rising payor expectations, and a changing regulatory landscape,” said Robert C. Mortensen, President and CEO at THM. “Matthew’s combination of success in cultivating strategic client relationships and leading the adoption of innovative technology solutions makes him exceptionally positioned to drive the expansion of THM’s client base. I am excited to welcome Matthew to the executive team at THM.”
Padden served the majority of his career with Aetna, most recently as SVP, National and Federal Markets where he successfully led national multi-product business growth strategies and client program design, implementation, and management. Prior to joining THM, Padden was Chief Executive Officer and Chief Sales Officer with Randall and Quilter Investment Holdings (R&Q Health). There, he led the London-based portfolio healthcare company’s coordinating service business throughout the United States, specifically for catastrophically injured workers’ compensation patients. His impressive expertise spans multiple workers’ compensation verticals, healthcare, short term and long-term disability, and federal government programs.
“At heart, I'm an evangelist for innovation in the health care and insurance space,” said Padden. “THM’s digital marketplace platform is ground-breaking and brings tremendous value to payor clients, providers and patients. In almost no time, they have successfully built a market-driven business and are emerging as the leader in the market. I am thrilled to be here, partnering with forward-thinking clients and the THM team to disrupt the industry as we know it.”
Padden holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from West Virginia University, and a Master of Education degree in Rehabilitation Counseling Administration from Ohio University.
About Transparent Health Marketplace, Inc.
Transparent Health Marketplace (THM) operates the first marketplace of its kind to provide real-time price transparency and analytics with the ability to easily shop, book and pay for medical services in healthcare and workers’ compensation. The simple, intuitive digital platform automates scheduling, billing, and payment processes to give providers more time to deliver quality healthcare to their patients. The marketplace delivers increased speed to care, cost savings, growth opportunities, access to affordable quality healthcare, and can be tailored to individual payor and provider needs.
