What You Should Know
- Juno Health announced a strategic partnership with SlicedHealth to offer SlicedHealth’s revenue cycle and operations intelligence tools as a fully integrated, included complement to Juno EHR’s native revenue cycle management (RCM) suite.
- The partnership specifically targets rural hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), delivering advanced revenue protection and contract intelligence tools historically reserved for large health systems.
- SlicedHealth brings proven operational scale—having analyzed more than $4 billion in claims and recovered hundreds of millions in underpayments across 100+ hospitals and 1,300+ providers.
Bringing Enterprise RCM Tools to Rural Facilities
Big-box electronic health record systems often charge steep implementation fees for add-on revenue cycle modules, leaving smaller hospitals to manage complex commercial payer contracts manually. SlicedHealth, which has already analyzed over $4 billion in claims across 100 hospitals and 1,300 providers, automates that back-office audit trail.
Integrating the two platforms gives rural billing teams several direct operational capabilities:
- Underpayment Detection: Automatically audits adjudicated claims against specific commercial contract terms, flagging instances where insurers pay less than their agreed fee schedule.
- Denial Trend Analytics: Tracks real-time denial patterns across payers to prioritize high-yield appeals and avoid the ~$120 average cost of reworking a claim.
- Price Transparency Compliance: Generates the machine-readable files and consumer price estimators mandated by CMS, protecting facilities from regulatory fines that range from $100,000 to $1 million.
- Point-of-Service Cost Estimates: Calculates out-of-pocket patient costs before procedures to help staff collect copays upfront and reduce uncompensated care.
The combined platform runs in the cloud with no upfront implementation fees, designed to get rural hospitals live within weeks rather than months.
What Leadership Is Saying
“Juno Health has always been committed to giving power back to clinicians,” said Felicia Rodriguez, revenue cycle expert at Juno Health. “This partnership extends that commitment beyond the clinical workflow and into the financial heartbeat of our clients’ organizations. Rural hospitals and critical access hospitals deserve the same revenue intelligence tools as today’s large health systems. Together, we’re making that a reality.”
