Company leader
Joan Butters
Co-founder and CEO
Xsolis
Joan Butters is co-founder and chief executive of Xsolis, a company in Nashville, Tennessee, whose software tells a hospital and an insurer, while the patient is still in a bed, whether the stay meets medical-necessity rules.
Strategy Work at Optum
She came up through AIM Healthcare as vice president of data mining technologies, then was vice president and general manager of strategy and emerging solutions at Optum. In 2005 the National Business Journal honored her as a Woman of Influence.
Co-founding Xsolis
She co-founded Xsolis in 2013. In 2020 the company released CORTEX, a product line for hospital physicians, to flag medical necessity and the financial risk of a stay.