I sit through vendor demos constantly, and the word “agentic” gets attached to almost anything with a modern interface. If you cannot tell the difference in the room, you will buy a rules engine at an AI price. Then you…
Revenue Cycle Management
Finvi, a revenue cycle and collections software company, named CFO Laura Granahan its CEO, effective Oct. 15. Ms. Granahan has been Finvi’s CFO since 2024, according to an Oct. 15 news release. Since June, she has led the company alongside…
Revenue cycle performance has long been tracked through operational metrics: denial rates, days in accounts receivable, cost to collect. In 2026, hospital and health system CEOs began discussing it as part of a broader strategy, naming it in turnaround plans…
UnitedHealth Group executives outlined several artificial intelligence initiatives during the company’s Oct. 13 earnings call. “AI-enabled capabilities are beginning to help clinicians spend more time with patients, improve service speed and experience, streamline administration and reduce friction for both consumers…
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…
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Here are 24 health systems that have made revenue cycle vice president hires in 2026: 1. Chicago-based CommonSpirit Julie Morgan to system vice president of physician enterprise revenue cycle. 2. Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System named Denise Waters vice president…
Some patients are bringing insurance coverage disputes directly to health insurer CEOs, seeking another avenue for review when recommended care is denied, MedPage Today reported Oct. 8. Two patients recently obtained coverage approvals after contacting insurance company executives, according to…
Payers will soon have to strip so-called “ghost rates” from their price files and have a senior executive attest that the data is accurate and complete, a requirement hospitals already face, under a final rule CMS and the Labor and…
Arlington-based Texas Health Resources is shifting its revenue cycle team away from working insurance denials one at a time and toward identifying large-scale payer patterns it can resolve in bulk. Jamie Williams, associate vice president of professional billing at Texas…
Health insurers are using AI to speed up prior authorization, but Fitch expects regulators to keep requiring humans in the loop when care is denied, and that will limit how much efficiency payers can gain. The outlook comes from Fitch’s…