Another health insurance CEO is taking aim at the No Surprises Act’s arbitration system. “We do support the overall strategic intent of consumer protection from surprise billing. However, we’re seeing some clear abuses of the IDR vehicle in practice,” Cigna…
Revenue Cycle Management
AI adoption in healthcare has often outpaced the workforce’s comfort with it, and revenue cycle departments, where automation touches coding, denials and prior authorization daily, are no exception. The Cleveland Clinic’s revenue cycle department has gotten ahead of that discomfort…
Revenue cycle management company Waystar has named Alpana Wegner as its next CFO, effective Aug. 1. Ms. Wegner joins Waystar with more than 25 years of finance and operational leadership experience, including serving as CFO for several publicly traded companies,…
As margins tighten across the industry, revenue cycle leaders are finding that one of the most reliable levers for financial performance sits closest to the patient: the billing experience itself. Automating payment collection, consolidating fragmented billing platforms and giving patients…
The push to establish billing codes for AI-enabled clinical analyses is intensifying a longstanding debate over how the healthcare system values nursing work. The American Nurses Association is closely reviewing proposed federal payment policies for emerging technologies, but it cautions…
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Ask a Revenue Cycle Leader is a new series featuring insights from health system and hospital revenue cycle executives nationwide. Becker’s poses questions on the most pressing issues in healthcare finance — from payer relations and automation to workforce and…
Ten hospitals and health systems recently posted job listings seeking revenue cycle management expertise. Note: This is not an exhaustive list. Listings were compiled from job-seeker sites. 1. Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center seeks a charge master analyst. 2. Beaufort (S.C.)…
Community Health Systems’ second-quarter results are a warning to hospital leaders that rising self-pay volume is becoming a significant threat to margins. During its second-quarter earnings call on July 22, Franklin, Tenn.-based CHS outlined how a rapid rise in uninsured…
Community Health Systems is watching its accounts receivable grow as insurers slow down claims payments and pile on more pre-payment scrutiny, CFO Jason Johnson said on the Franklin, Tenn.-based health system’s second-quarter earnings call July 23. “One of the challenges…
Automation, vendor transitions and workforce evaluations are driving revenue cycle cuts at three health systems in 2026. Here’s a look at each: 1. Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health is eliminating 31 revenue cycle positions to prevent redundancy, a health system spokesperson…