Passport is a health care information technology and services organization headquartered in Franklin, Tenn. The Passport family of companies sells administrative, clinical and financial tools to help health care providers determine eligibility and payment and get paid faster. Its products and services are used by approximately one-third of all U.S. hospitals and more than 5,000 other health care provider facilities in all 50 states.

• Passport was founded in 1996 as InterMed, LLC and initially built Web sites for physicians, hospitals and insurance companies.
   

• Passport is headquartered in Franklin, Tenn. and has regional offices in Ill. and Pa.
   

• Nearly 300 people are employed by Passport across the U.S.
   

• Passport has access to critical data involving more than 250 million patient lives.
   

• Annual transaction volume has grown from 92 transactions processed in 1997 to approximately 130 million transactions processed in 2008.

Passport is the health care community's partner of choice for revenue cycle intelligence which improves financial performance and patient satisfaction.

It is the goal of the Passport Charitable Giving Committee to provide support to organizations and enhance the lives of the people in the communities in which we reside through gifts of time and money. The
10-member committee of employee volunteers is chaired by Patrick Harkins, Vice President of Content Development. The Charitable Giving Committee supports causes that are related to the mission and purpose of Passport’s business, those that are focused on improving health care or the health of the people in the communities we serve. The committee is charged with determining, in an unbiased way, the best use for the charitable dollars we have available from the company.

Some of the organizations that Passport provides support through Charitable Giving are as follows:

• American Diabetes Association

• American Heart Association

• American Red Cross

• Hope Clinic For Women

• Juvenile Diabetes Association

• Nashville Cares

• National MS Society

• Second Harvest Food Bank Middle TN

• Seeing Eye Council

• St. Jude’s Hospital for Children

• The Mercy Children’s Clinic

• The Muscular Dystrophy Association

• YMCA of Cool Springs

If you are interested in submitting an organization to the committee for consideration,
please contact Patrick Harkins.