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Healthcare operations and revenue cycle management (RCM) company Savista has acquired ABW Medical, an ambulatory RCM provider specializing in the non-acute healthcare sector.The transaction expands Savista’s operational footprint into community health centers, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), physician medical groups, management services organizations (MSOs), rural health providers, and virtual care platforms.Integrates ABW Medical’s preferred partner status
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FinThrive Names Former Kaiser Permanente Leader Brandon Burnett Chief RCM Officer
Healthcare revenue cycle software provider FinThrive has named Brandon Burnett as its Chief Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Officer. The move brings 25 years of provider-side operational experience directly into FinThrive’s executive ranks as the company expands the use of artificial intelligence across hospital billing and patient access workflows.
In the newly created role, Burnett will bridge the gap between software development and the day-to-day realities of hospital finance teams,
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Juno Health Integrates SlicedHealth to Deliver Native Revenue Intelligence for Rural Hospitals
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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
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Arintra Secures $25M to Scale GenAI Autonomous Medical Coding
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Arintra, an autonomous medical coding startup headquartered in Austin, Texas, with engineering operations in Bengaluru, raised approximately $25 million in a Series B funding round led by Define Ventures.The syndicate includes new strategic backing from Yale New Haven Ventures and Endeavor Ventures, alongside participation from existing investors Y Combinator, Ten13 Capital, Counterpart Ventures, Spider Capital, and Peak XV Partners (which previously led Arintra’s $21
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Oracle Health Launches Automated Coding, Dictation, and AI Chart Review for Clinical AI Agent
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Oracle Health announced major new U.S. capabilities for the Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, expanding its multi-agent architecture across ambulatory professional fee coding, clinician-controlled dictation, and EHR chart review.The professional fee coding capability analyzes visit conversations to suggest accurate charge codes directly within the orders workflow, speeding up charge capture and reducing downstream billing rework while keeping final submission approval with
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R1 to Acquire Humata Health, Advancing Phare OS with AI-Powered Prior Authorization Automation
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R1 entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Humata Health, an AI-powered prior authorization technology company, to embed agentic, touchless authorization capabilities into R1’s Phare Operating System (Phare OS).The transaction is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2026, with the Humata team joining R1’s R37 innovation lab to accelerate agentic AI engineering across the revenue cycle.Prior authorizations remain a top-three driver of hospital claim
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The Cheapest Money a Hospital Will Ever Make Is the Money It’s Already Owed
This is shaping up to be another challenging year for healthcare system finances. It is not exactly beach reading. But neither is missing payroll.
The 2026 Costs of Caring Report from the American Hospital Association (AHA) spells it out:
Hospital expenses rose by 7.5% in 2025.About 56% of hospital costs are tied to service lines where reimbursement falls short of (or is less than) the cost of delivering care, including behavioral health, obstetrics, infectious disease, and burns and
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Why Exception-Driven RCM Is the Only Sustainable Operating Model
Healthcare has spent years trying to optimize a revenue cycle operating model that no longer works. Every new wave of technology has promised to make work queues more efficient. Better analytics. Better automation. Now AI.
We've spent years asking, "How do we work every claim faster?" The better question is, "Why are people working so many of these claims at all?"
The problem isn't that revenue cycle teams can't keep up. The problem is that we've built operating models where people are
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Inovalon Research Identifies Preventable Drivers of Claim Denials and Prior Authorization Delays
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An Inovalon national survey of over 400 revenue cycle management (RCM) leaders by Inovalon reveals that healthcare's most costly billing problems begin before a claim is ever submitted.Front-end workflow breakdowns drive 78% of denied claims, led by insurance eligibility verification, patient registration, and prior authorization delays.Prior authorization remains heavily manual: 93% of provider organizations rely on phone, fax, or payer portals, with only 7% utilizing
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Cedar Launches Purpose-Built AI Agents for Patient Revenue Recovery
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Cedar officially announced the Kora Platform, evolving its single AI billing agent into an integrated suite of purpose-built, autonomous AI agents designed for healthcare revenue recovery.Built on a foundation of 1.5 billion+ patient interactions, $13.6 billion in processed payments, and 63 million+ patients served, Kora integrates directly into existing EHR, telephony, and contact center environments.The platform features Autonomous Inbound Voice, Autonomous Outbound
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