BerryDunn Merges with VantagePoint

Portland Maine-based, BerryDunn, an assurance, tax, and consulting firm with an office in Manchester, has merged with Connecticut-based health care compliance, consulting, and credentialing firm VantagePoint Healthcare Advisors (VantagePoint). The merger was effective January 1.

According to a statement, the two firms have worked together, serving health care clients. With the merger, BerryDunn clients will now have access to VantagePoint’s deep expertise in health care compliance, credentialing, operations, and due diligence. Likewise, VantagePoint’s clients will have BerryDunn’s suite of tax, financial, assurance, business consulting, and IT services as an integrated resource.

VantagePoint will operate under the BerryDunn name.

“We have known and respected the VantagePoint owners, Helen Hadley, CEO, and Susan Prior, president, and their talented team of consultants for many years. Through our involvement in Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), as well as our collaboration on projects, we recognize that VantagePoint is on the leading edge of an evolving health care landscape,” said BerryDunn Principal Jeff Walla. “We’re both dedicated to offering industry-specific expertise that helps our mutual clients gain control in a changing health care environment. This merger will benefit clients of both firms.”

BerryDunn has served the health care industry for more than 40 years with health care consulting and auditing services, from health care data analytics to Medicaid and technology consulting. With this merger, the firms’ combined experience in revenue cycle assessments and healthcare compliance and credentialing will build capacity to serve clients.

“Over the past 27 years, VantagePoint has expanded throughout the U.S. to serve health care providers in hospital systems, medical groups, and nonprofits. To be able to continue to grow and offer our existing clients additional services and expertise via this merger is very exciting,” said VantagePoint founder and CEO Helen Hadley. 

“Joining the BerryDunn team is part of a long-term strategic vision that ensures our clients have access to a deep bench of talent and blended healthcare and financial services,” said Susan Prior, president of VantagePoint. “As we began working collaboratively on projects, we gained a better understanding that the firm’s culture aligned perfectly with our culture at VantagePoint. This was essential for us as we considered BerryDunn as a partner.”

The VantagePoint merger will continue to expand BerryDunn’s geographic footprint and client reach in southern New England. BerryDunn has maintained a Hartford-area office since 2017, and added a Boston presence when merging in Rodman CPAs in July 2019. With offices in six states and employees in over 30 states, BerryDunn is opening a national headquarters in Portland, Maine, in early 2021, to create a hub to support its new and current employees with training, technology, and professional development.