The 25 best RCM tools in 2026, per KLAS
KLAS Research, a healthcare IT data and insights company, released its annual “Best in KLAS” report Feb. 4.
Best in KLAS, now in its 28th year, draws on tens of thousands of provider evaluations to identify the top-performing solutions in several categories, including revenue cycle. The report ranks healthcare technology vendors and service providers across more than 140 market segments based on feedback from the clinicians and administrators who use them.
Here are the 25 RCM or finance tools that achieved “Best in KLAS” recognition for 2026:
- Ambient speech: Abridge
- Autonomous coding: CodaMetrix (Autonomous Coding)
- Claims management and clearinghouse: Quadax (Xpeditor)
- Clinical documentation integrity: Microsoft (Nuance CDI)
- Computer-assisted coding: Dolbey (Fusion CAC)
- Insurance discovery: FinThrive (Insurance Discover)
- Patient access: Waystar (Patient Access)
- Patient financial engagement: RevSpring (PersonaPay Patient Financial Engagement)
- Revenue cycle chargemaster management: The Craneware Group (Trisus Chargemaster)
- Revenue cycle contract management: Experian Health (Contract Manager & Analysis)
- Speech recognition — front-end EHR: Microsoft (Dragon Medical One)
- Complex claims services: Revecore
- Debt collection services: RSi
- Denials management services: Trend Health Partners
- End-to-end revenue cycle outsourcing: Ensemble
- Extended business office — large (more than 200 beds): FTI Consulting
- Extended business office — small (1-200 beds): R1 RCM
- Government reimbursement services: R1 RCM
- Outsourced coding: Datavant
- Patient financing services: PayZen (Non-Recourse)
- Physician advisory services: Xsolis
- Release of information: MRO
- Underpayment recovery services: R1 RCM
- Value-based care enablement services: Aledade
- Virtual scribing services: IKS Health (Live Scribes)
The full report is accessible from KLAS Research here.
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