Revenue Cycle Management

Hospitals lose millions of dollars each year to decisions made long before a patient is discharged. The most consequential is often the first: whether to classify a patient as observation or inpatient — a single call that can swing reimbursement…

Columbus (Ind.) Regional Health has promoted Heather Hubbard to vice president of enterprise services, according to a post on her LinkedIn page.  Ms. Hubbard assumed her new role in September. She had served as vice president of administrative and revenue…

Conifer Health Solutions will lay off more than 1,000 employees after its contract with CommonSpirit ends, and Oracle Health unveiled new capabilities for its revenue cycle management portfolio. Here are 12 revenue cycle updates that Becker’s reported in September: 

With Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine continuing to expand its footprint across West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Maryland, its revenue cycle leader is focused on a single, repeatable process to keep the 25-hospital system aligned. Bahar Bazmi, who joined WVU Medicine…

Ensemble has formed a strategic partnership with Penelope Health to bring real-time payer policy intelligence into its revenue cycle operations. Ensemble will integrate Penelope’s structured, continuously updated payer policy data into its intelligence engine, according to a Sept. 24 news…

Nebraska’s Medicaid work requirements are causing coverage losses mainly through unanswered verification notices, not through enrollees failing to meet the rules, according to a Sept. 29 analysis from KFF.  KFF researchers drew the data from Nebraska’s Sept. 17 Medicaid Advisory…

Judy Faulkner has spent nearly five decades making Epic a fundamental cornerstone of hospital EHR operations. Now, that influence extends well beyond the EHR and delves into some of the biggest questions facing health system leaders: how quickly to deploy…

Healthcare technology and revenue cycle management company CareCloud has promoted Bonnie Boyer to CFO, effective Oct. 1.  Ms. Boyer currently serves as CareCloud’s assistant CFO, according to a Sept. 29 news release from the company. She succeeds Norman Roth, who…

Revenue cycle leaders have historically built expertise through repetition, spending years coding claims, working denials and reconciling charges before advancing into more complex roles. But As AI takes on more of that work, the traditional path to developing that experience…

Arlington-based Texas Health Resources has promoted Nadieska Morgan to associate vice president of central business office, according to a Sept. 22 post on her LinkedIn page.  She takes on her new role after serving as a director of business operations…