Founded in 2010, TOG offers a breadth of provider network analysis, negotiating, payment integrity solutions, and contracting services with unparalleled experience, and the most precise Provider Data Management platform in the market.
Partner with TOG Network Solutions to build your best provider network.
With extensive experience building provider networks for top health insurance companies throughout the nation, TOGs skilled teams of recruiters have established long-term connections with health care providers in all local markets. TOGs proprietary Provider Data Management platform ensures accuracy, efficiency, and reduced regulatory risks.
TOG Network Solutions is certified as a Womens Business Enterprise (WBE) through the Womens Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nations largest third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women in the nation. As an MBE/WBE vendor, TOG provides additional value for government contracts.
How TOG Network Solutions is Different
The TOG mission is straightforward: Streamline and modernize the business of health care by substantially reducing inefficiency and making data manageable and accessible.
Clients express appreciation for TOGs collective expertise in health care, long-standing relationships built in the industry, advanced technology, and practical efficiencies that serve both health care insurers and providers.
Quality
Accurate, organized, and easy, TOGs databases are built to serve as the single source of truth for provider data.
Enduring connections comprise more than 250 health care professionals in every state and market – provider network executives, project managers, senior negotiators, recruiters, credentialing associates, and reporting analysts.
The cloud-based platform eliminates redundancies and reduces regulatory risks, bolstering efficiency, accountability, accuracy, and accessibility – providing insurers with simply better information in every way.
Experience
The TOG senior team brings a combined 100+ years of experience, market intelligence, and trusted industry relationships. TOGs seasoned negotiators know how to work with physicians, medical staff, and facility personnel alike. TOG excels at local, regional, and national levels.
We know the fine points of contract negotiation and scaling services for small-to-large projects, ranging from recruiting national health systems to individual ancillary providers. And we understand current and emerging trends that can present opportunities for new and existing provider networks.
Services
We have simplified the traditional model of building health care networks in America. Leveraging connections, knowledge, and data, TOG Network Solutions communicates openly with clients for collaboration that yields precise, productive, and cost-effective networks.
TOG Network Solutions works across a breadth of provider network management:
- Analysis & Strategy
- Provider Recruiting & Contracting
- Network Filing & Expansion
- Value-Based Programs
- Provider Credentialing
- Provider Data Management
- Compliance
- Corrective Action Plan Mitigation
- Payment Integrity Solutions
The TOG approach involves exhaustive investigation and execution, from analysis to recruiting across all areas of service, to achieve optimal results for satisfied clients.
Platform
TOG Network Solutions proprietary Provider Data Management system offers common-sense and actionable insights to help top health insurance companies build better and more efficient provider networks that save significant costs and time.
Your TOG Provider Directory is a single-source source of truth that eradicates redundancies while supporting transparency. The systems multi-functional technology simplifies network data on a read-only basis through a single portal: It tracks directory information, functions as a provider services CRM, and connects to the insurers claims, credentialing, and analytics.
TOG Provider Directories present the necessary solutions for health care insurers to maintain, build, or expand provider networks practically and painlessly.
Your TOG Intake Directory is the tool you use to identify and eliminate configuration issues, credentialing issues, and other human errors.
TOG Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
In a health care system that too often presents more problems than solutions, were working across the country to establish new standards of excellence in health care and provider network development.
Sarah’s 15-plus years of entrepreneurship includes serving as TOG Network Solutions’ CEO since 2010. Sarah leads TOG Network Solutions strategic growth including organic and denovo diversification and markets, financial operations, and human capital.
As a “servant leader,” Sarah places a premium on her greatest asset – her people. She curates exceptional candidates and cultivates a committed and long-term relationship based on trust, communication, and consummate professionalism. Sarah puts her team before herself and it shows in the loyalty they show her in return.
Sarah saw a need for an automated and centralized way to track project activity. Her initial internal project-tracking vision was the foundation for what has developed into the turn-key TOG Network Solutions Provider Data Management platform.
Sarah enjoys traveling, yoga, and the abundance of natural beauty and wildlife at her lakeside home in Western New York.
TOG is transforming health care with clarity, know-how, and data integrity that gives insurance companies more complete insights.
Eric has more than three decades of experience in the health care industry, with specialties in technology, operations, sales and marketing, and regulatory risks and compliance. He architected the proprietary, cloud-based TOG Provider Directory, saving insurers time and overhead, realizing efficiencies, and eliminating redundancies.
Striving for transparency and cost-effectiveness in health care, Eric’s deep relationships in the industry allow him to accelerate service delivery options across the system.
Eric has had operational responsibility for national and regional health plans and providers. He also has expertise in financial management, mergers and acquisitions, IT, and health care informatics.
Eric Olofson
President
Eric has more than three decades of experience in the health care industry, with specialties in technology, operations, sales and marketing, and regulatory risks and compliance. He architected the proprietary, cloud-based TOG Provider Directory, saving insurers time and overhead, realizing efficiencies, and eliminating redundancies.
Striving for transparency and cost-effectiveness in health care, Erics deep relationships in the industry allow him to accelerate service delivery options across the system.
Eric has had operational responsibility for national and regional health plans and providers. He also has expertise in financial management, mergers and acquisitions, IT, and health care informatics.
Ted currently works with TOG Network Solutions in a dual capacity as Vice President of Business Development and the California Lead Executive for Network Expansion. His past work history includes serving as the Vice President of Provider Network for Point32Health, Highmark WholeCare, Horizon NJ Health, Cigna Health Spring, WellCare, and United Healthcare. He has extensive experience in both provider network, provider operations and provider relations.
He also led business development activities for SemperCare, Sunrise Healthcare, and Diabetes Treatment Centers of America. Prior to this Ted spent 21 years in the United States Air Force serving as a Medical Service Corps Officer.
He has a Master’s Degree in Hospital Administration from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California and a B.S. in Technical Management from Regis College in Denver, Colorado. He is also a graduate of the Wharton Executive Management Program in Healthcare.
Charlotte Nichols is a seasoned managed care executive with over 25 years of experience in the health care industry planning, monitoring, managing, and implementing large provider network build activities.
Before joining TOG Network Solutions, Charlotte was the Director of Network Programs at UnitedHealthcare. There, she developed and implemented network strategies and managed large-scale network implementation projects involving state proposal requests and operational readiness review activities.
Charlotte has also held senior leadership positions at Amerigroup and Value Options, where she gained extensive experience in provider relations, contract negotiation, and health care management.
Charlotte holds a degree in Health Services Management from Norfolk State University and brings a proven track record of success and innovation to every project she leads. She is passionate about helping TOG Network Solutions’ clients exceed their provider network goals and objectives.
During her off hours, she enjoys travelling and spending time with family and friends.
Charlotte D. Nichols
VP – Network Development & Implementation