About Kadent

Since 1973, Kadent has been providing accounts receivable management solutions to organizations seeking to bridge the gap between services rendered and payments received. Backed by the strength of our private equity investors and management, we process and manage nearly $1 billion in placements annually, ensuring maximum recoveries, providing robust reporting, and improving services to our clients’ customers and patients.

Kadent is a trusted partner to nearly 800 clients nationwide, including a wide array of community hospitals and hospital systems, physician practices, municipal courts systems and utilities.

With an expanding footprint and tenured staff, Kadent leverages priority workflow's and advanced technologies in conjunction with deep-dive analytics to maximize client yield.

Our History

1973 - Company is founded as a collection agency in the Reading area of PA by Donald Landau.

1988 - Company moves its corporate office to Wyomissing, PA.

1992 - The business office solutions practice of the Company (now Kadent Healthcare) is founded in response to growing industry and client demand.

2006 - The Landau Group is purchased by private equity firms Sightline Partners, CCP Equity Partners, Quilvest USA and management. Bruce Colburn assumes the President and CEO position, replacing owners David and Duane Landau. 

2006 - Harry Albert assumes the role as Vice President Collection Operations.

2006 - Company changes its brand name to Kadent, operating Kadent Healthcare, Accounts Recovery Bureau and Kadent Technologies.

2007 - Kadent increases its Midwest geographic presence and doubles its scale by purchasing Mutual Hospital Services, a well-respected not-for-profit Indiana-based business office solutions practice and third party collection agency. 

2007 - The Company hires John M. Kunysz, Jr. as its Senior Vice President of Business Development and Chief Financial Officer expanding Kadent’s management capabilities.

2007 - Kadent opens a 10,000 square foot call center in Reading, PA, doubling its PA presence by adding 100 employees to its Reading, PA location.

2007 - Accounts Recovery Bureau enters into an agreement with CBSJ Financial Corp. to transfer the management of CBSJ's San Jose collection agency operation and its clients to ARB.  The CBSJ transaction represents a substantial expansion of ARB’s West Coast operations.  The CBSJ San Jose location provides ARB with a new sales, client service and operational office from which ARB and other Kadent companies may continue to grow.  The Company adopts the CBSJ brand for its West Coast business.