About Us

Fix Patient Access.
Fuel Growth.

Vision

Ensure that every patient receives the care they need, when they need it.

Mission

To be the trusted source of patient access innovation—increasing revenue and transforming patient access and financial clearance by reducing administrative burdens, uncovering untapped revenue, and improving the financial and clinical outcomes for patients and health systems across the United States.

The Origin.

It Started With One Letter—and One Unscheduled Colonoscopy.

Our story doesn’t begin in a boardroom. It begins in a doctor’s office.

Serial Entrepreneur and Founder Scott Friesen had just finished a routine physical when his doctor reminded him—now over 45—it was time for a colonoscopy. Scott, like many patients, nodded in agreement and walked out. Life got busy. Weeks passed. Then months. Eventually, he forgot.

A full year later, a letter from a major health system finally arrived in the mail.

We noticed the colonoscopy box in your medical recored wasn’t checked. Please get the referral, please schedule your visit, please get the procedure, please get the results, please send the results to us.

It was impersonal. Passive. And stunning.

Scott—an industry insider with 20+ years in healthcare—sat there realizing that no one had followed up. No one had ensured he received the care he needed. There was no outreach. No scheduling. No handoff. Just an assumption that patients like him would somehow handle it.

That letter could’ve cost him his life.

And if it could happen to him, it was certainly happening to millions of others—people with no healthcare background, no system literacy, and no time to track down missing appointments. Worse still, it wasn’t just bad for patients. It was terrible for hospitals too. Missed referrals meant missed revenue. That moment became the spark.

This isn’t a patient mistake,” Scott realized. “This is a broken system. And someone has to fix the front door of healthcare.”

He envisioned a solution that would combine AI powered technology, best-in-class services, and strategic leadership to proactively identify patients like him, patients who continually slip through the cracks, and guide them all the way to the care their providers said they needed. The goal wasn’t just better operations,. The goal was increased revenue and patient outcomes and it was a revolution in patient access.

And so, Abax Health was born.

Our Culture: Built to Last.

Our culture defines who we are; it’s our backbone. At Abax Health, we lead with empathy, grit, innovation, and a relentless drive to win. We believe in:

Selflessness

No egos. Just results.

Empathy

Treat everyone how you want to be treated.

1% Rule

Be better today than yesterday.

Growth and Innovation

Consistently push the boundaries toward the best outcome possible.

Grit

Approach problems with a growth and solutions mindset.

Winning

Play to win in all aspects of your personal and professional life.

As we grow, we’re intentional about who we bring in. A strong team isn’t just about skills—it’s about shared DNA. Culture keeps us grounded when things go wrong and lifts us higher when they go right.

Our Team.

Over 250 Years of Revenue Cycle and Patient Access Experience.

Scott Friesen

Founder and CEO

Keith Eggert, FHFMA

Chief Operating Officer

Stacey Fontenot

Chief Technology Officer

Kevin Sleeper

Chief Growth Officer

Shawn Landin

Senior VP – Operations

Craig Pergrem

Vice President – Client Success

Robert Taylor, Ph.D.

Regional VP – Growth

Rob Kream

Regional VP – Growth

Yvonne Zeiders, R.N.

Senior Director – Operations

Brian Utz

Senior Director – Product

Caleb Dobosh, Ph.D.

Director – Data Science, Architecture, and AI

Mae Bergin

Director – Business Development

What We Deliver.

Abax Health is the only company that combines AI powered technology, proven services, and operational strategy to deliver Patient Access as a Service.

Abax360

Full-Service Patient Access Outsourcing

From registration, financial clearance, and scheduling, Abax360 manages the entire patient access lifecycle with highly skilled staff, management, and results.

Scalable, expert staffing

Best-in-class leadership

Real-time performance tracking

AI powered technology and workflows to drive revenue and patient outcomes

AbaxOne

Enterprise Scheduling, Contact Center, Workflow, and Scheduling Platform

Deploying a first-of-its-kind enterprise workflow platform, AbaxOne consolidates disparate patient access software solutions into one, enterprise-wide financial clearance and scheduling workflow tool.

Integrated contact center software

Gamification to improve staff productivity

Enterprise dashboards to track performance

Consolidated workflow software to track every step of the financial clearance and scheduling process

AbaxInsight

AI Powered Revenue and Patient Engagement Platform

With tens of billions of dollars in referrals left unscheduled every year, AbaxInsight leverages AI to identify unscheduled referrals, quantifies revenue leakage, and initiates outreach to capture those care opportunities before they slip through the cracks.

Identify unscheduled referrals lost in your EHR

Quantify financial opportunity

Automate patient outreach and engagement

Human-led access experts financially clear and schedule the unscheduled referral

“I founded Abax Health because I experienced the problem myself. When a patient slips through the cracks and a referral isn’t scheduled, it’s both a care continuity and a revenue loss breakdown. No patient should experience care gaps, and no health system should lose revenue because they don’t have the technology and resources to schedule the patient. It’s a fixable problem and Abax’s mission is to change that.”

Scott Friesen – Founder and CEO

Why It Matters.

You’re Losing Millions at the Front End

Errors, delays, and inefficiencies in the access process bleed revenue and compromise care. We help you fix it—at scale.

Staff Burnout is Bleeding Your Bottom Line

High turnover in access roles erodes morale, raises costs, and disrupts operations. AbaxAccess changes that through engagement, culture, and expertise.

The Data You Need Is Already There

AbaxInsight leverages your own system data to find untapped revenue and bring patients back into care.

The Future of Patient Access Starts Here.

We’re not another vendor. We’re your unfair advantage. With Abax360, AbaxOne, and AbaxInsight, we’re delivering real results at the front lines of healthcare.

It’s time to stop losing patients—and start unlocking growth.