Incorporated in 1997, the firm’s initial clients were physician networks and hospital joint ventures with physicians. Pendulum provided temporary management services to transition employer direct contracting strategies for IPAs, PHOs, and also helped in the capital formation process as investor and as a partner to the provider’s commitment to long term success in care management.

By 2001 employers and community-based health plans started to see the value of these services from a payer perspective. Pendulum expanded its capabilities and technology to become a full service information company to help bring answers to the questions in measuring successful changes in benefits design, clinical quality and safety improvement, as well as the economics of delivery system transformation.

In 2006 Pendulum expanded our partnerships and made several offers to purchase and/or manage provider sponsored health plans. Most of these were hospital owned plans that needed a partner to transfer out of the business of operating a managed care company but still needed the visits and admissions from their prepaid population. Pendulum is able to develop a shared resource platform to operate each franchise at the community level, thereby giving each acquisition an opportunity for growth outside their service area.

The company continues to operate as a privately held corporation funded by a team of private and institutional investors. We are not owned by an insurance company. We do not sell software or insurance but rather have chosen to sell solutions to the long term problems and conflicts between health care financing and delivery at a community/regional level through a combination of technology, management skills and capital formation strategies.