Managing utilization review for a single hospital is demanding enough. Dr. Maliha Iqbal, MD, SFHM, CHCQM-PHYADV, ACPA-C, does it for 11 — as the sole physician advisor at Beacon Health System. Despite her caseload doubling after a merger, she closed…
Revenue Cycle Management
The line between the CFO’s office and the revenue cycle department is disappearing, four health system leaders said Sept. 15 during a panel discussion at Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference. Beth Carlson, chief revenue officer at Columbus-based…
Healthcare revenue cycle leaders are sounding the alarm and they’re largely pointing in the same direction. Across health systems large and small, from academic medical centers to community hospitals, a convergence of forces is reshaping the financial infrastructure of American…
At Becker’s 11th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference on Sept. 14 in Chicago, three revenue cycle leaders discussed what reskilling a finance team looks like once the easy automation wins are gone. Diana Allen, PhD, revenue…
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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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. Advent Health, based in Altamonte Springs, Fla., seeks a vice president and…
At the opening keynote of Becker’s 11th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference in Chicago, two health system technology leaders set up the argument that would carry through the rest of the week: The hardest problems facing…
Abridge is launching its first product built specifically for the mid-revenue cycle. The San Francisco-based AI-native clinician intelligence platform is adding a pre-bill review capability built for clinical documentation integrity, coding and revenue cycle teams, according to a Sept. 14…
Cambridge, Mass.-based Beth Israel Lahey Health has named Rachel Correia vice president of patient financial services, according to a Sept. 10 post on her LinkedIn page. She joins the health system from Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham, where she served…
Sheila Augustine has spent nearly her entire career in revenue cycle. Twenty-one years at Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine, the last stretch of them as executive director of revenue cycle for a roughly $3 billion net patient revenue organization. In that time,…