Build the capability to put The Payer AI Platform to work. Simplify Academy™ brings operations, technology and partner learning pathways to health plan teams and the firms that support them.
Learning pathways
Certification pathways for health plan teams, partner engineers, architects, and Simplify professionals.
Payer Domain Products
Audience
Configurators, business analysts, payer operations, partner implementers
Certifies
Configuring and operating Benefits1™, Provider1™, Claims1™, Xperience1™, Insights1™, Payment1™
The curriculum foundation
The Academy curriculum brings together four areas of learning. The relevant modules for your track will be shared as part of the follow-up.
Understand the approach
Explore the ALPHA framework and how it connects delivery work to client outcomes, shared standards and continuous learning.
The five tenets
Build domain fluency
Understand the workflows, stakeholders and operating context of U.S. health plans, from claims and prior authorization to member and provider operations.
How the workflows connect
Provider and member operations touch every stage above, which is why the school covers them alongside the transactional workflows rather than after them.
Deploy with confidence
Develop the engineering capability to work with The Payer AI Platform, from the Payer Ontology and data pipelines to model deployment and integration.
What you build on
The Payer Ontology is the layer this school spends the most time in. Everything above it depends on how your data connects to it.
Practice in context
Learn the practice of forward deployed engineering, how Simplify Alpha™ embeds with health plan teams to deploy, iterate and institutionalize AI in real workflows.
How capability transfers
Illustrative shape, no scale implied. This school is about making the handover deliberate rather than accidental.
Learning connected to deployment
The Academy supports the people behind platform deployment. Forward Deployed Engineering PODs bring an operations owner, an IT engineer, a frontline expert, a QA lead and a forward deployed engineer from a partner or Simplify Alpha™ together around one workflow.
Who it is for
For health plans and partners preparing their people to work with The Payer AI Platform.
Simplify Academy™ brings health plan teams, partners and Simplify professionals into a shared training and certification model. The goal is to develop people who can deploy AI and help their organizations build capability on The Payer AI Platform.
Certification & partner program
Credentials are shared across health plan teams, partner engineers and Simplify professionals. No credential carries a release name, the ladder is built to outlast any product version.
Foundations
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Associate
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Specialist
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Architect
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Fellow
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Ranks earned by badges and points. One geometric knot mark gains threads with each level. Trademark clearance pending on The Weave, Payer Ontologist, and Simplify Fellow.
Cross-credit rule: exit artifacts are transferable evidence units. An FDE who passes the Specialist evaluation exercise automatically earns the Architecture and Runtime micro-credential, one person carries several badges without redundant assessment.
Registered
Signed agreement · two Associates
Select
Five Specialists · one Architect · one go-live · CSAT 4.0+
Premier
Fifteen Specialists · three Architects · one Fellow · three go-lives · CSAT 4.3+
Simplify Alpha™ is the founding Premier partner.
Competency framework versioned separately from products
Seven competency areas anchor the framework so assessments stay stable when the platform changes beneath them.
Annual blueprint refresh with a mid-year patch path
Any blueprint unchanged for 18 months is flagged for review.
Stackable micro-credentials for new capabilities roll up into levels
Product-tagged micro-credentials sunset at 18 to 24 months.
Advisory board meets at least twice a year
Payer AI governance lead, medical director, compliance and legal, FDE practice lead, external assessment expert.
Common questions
Learn more about the Academy and what happens after you sign up.
Still deciding? Send your question with your registration and the team will answer it directly.
The Academy brings together health plan operations and technology teams, partner engineers and Simplify professionals. This page invites health plans and partners to express interest for themselves or their teams.
The Academy develops the knowledge and skills people need to deploy AI on The Payer AI Platform. It supports health plans building capability within their own teams and partners developing platform expertise.
Choose Operations for health plan operations learning, Technology for health plan technology learning, or Partner for a partner organization's learning needs. Select "Help me find the right track" if you would like guidance.
The Academy's model brings health plan teams, partners and Simplify professionals to the same certification standard. Track-specific requirements and assessment details will be shared during follow-up.
Registering interest helps the Academy team understand your organization's learning needs. It does not confirm enrollment, a cohort place or certification. The team will follow up with relevant program details and next steps.
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