AIM Healthcare names new CIO

Email | Print By Milt Capps

Franklin-based AIM Healthcare Services Inc. has named Rick Fuqua vice president and chief information officer, filling the billet vacated by Andy Flatt, who moved to HealthSpring Inc.

Reporting to AIM Healthcare founder and CEO Jim Sohr, Fuqua oversees a bailiwick that includes nearly 190 information-technology professionals, most of whom are based in AIM's headquarters here, with 30 offshore workers in Bangalore provided via the Nashville office of eMids Technologies. eMids is headed by CEO John B. "Chip" Saltsman Jr., son of the erstwhile Tennessee Department of Transportation commissioner.

Fuqua's 25-year financial technology and operations-auditing career has included a year as CIO with Nashville's Permanent General Companies, four years with Investment Scorecard and earlier stints with AmSouth, Wachovia, Fidelity Information Services and RBC Centura. Fuqua, 46, earned his B.S. degree at Middle Tennessee State University in 1981.

Privately held AIM Healthcare tracks incorrect or unresolved medical claims, analyzes related data to provide business intelligence, and addresses issues related to contract compliance, overpayment, subrogation and related processes.