Bank of America buys health care technology firm to expand payment services
Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) acquires Axia Technologies, a health care payment and technology company, in its effort to expand BofA's payment offerings for health care clients and part of a broader initiative to integrate merchant services onto its proprietary platform.
The move follows the dissolution of its merchant services joint venture last year. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
Formed in 2015, AxiaMed provides a gateway and terminal software solution, helping health care providers to offer end-to-end, omni-channel patient payment solutions. Its integrated offerings expand payment options available to patients and helps to streamline administrative workflows.
"Payments are core to what we do at Bank of America ,” said Mark Monaco, head of enterprise payments at Bank of America .
BofA announced in 2019 that it would end its merchant services joint venture with First Data, now a part of Fiserv , in 2020.