Evidation, Co-CEO, Christine Lemke
Evidation’s Board of Directors has appointed Christine Lemke as Co-CEO alongside Executive Chair Deborah Kilpatrick.
Pratap Sarker, President, Greenway Health
Greenway Health appoints Pratap Sarker as President to oversee all commercial and customer-focused functions including sales, marketing, and customer success. He will also work closely with Greenway’s clearinghouse, revenue cycle and IT teams to ensure the delivery of quality solutions
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Revenue Cycle| Healthcare Finance | Policy, News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Analysis: August Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of August 2020.
M&A is back and the velocity of the rebound has outpaced all expectations. The recovery quickly worked its way across the spectrum from large to small-cap, beginning with the larger cap NASDAQ rally of nearly 80% from lows in late March (only to soften in recent days), followed by multi-billion
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Optimize.health Raises $15.6M for Remote Patient Monitoring Platform
What You Should Know:
- Optimize.health raises $15.6M in Series A funding to accelerate access to and adoption of its remote patient monitoring platform.
- Optimize.Health enables improved access to care, more
favorable health outcomes, and contained healthcare costs through the
combination of high-quality monitoring devices and a user-friendly,
HIPAA-compliant digital platform that supports two-way video calls and text
conversations between patients and their
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Maximizing Telehealth Success: How to Optimize Operations & Revenue Cycle Management
Vijay Kotte, EVP of Physician Services at R1 RCM
In COVID-19’s wake, providers’ financial recovery will be crucial yet daunting. U.S. hospitals and health systems stand to collectively lose $36.6 billion between March and June 2020 alone. Physician practices also face serious financial challenges as they recoup revenues that declined up to 55 percent and patient volume that decreased 60 percent.
Amid these hardships, telehealth has emerged as a widely accepted vehicle for care delivery –
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Patientco’s IVR Integration Joins Epic App Orchard, Selected by Baptist Memorial Health Care
Patientco, a
next-generation patient payment technology company, today announced that its
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) integration is now available in the Epic App
Orchard marketplace and has been selected by Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist
Memorial Health Care.
As providers have cited a surge in patient calls resulting
from COVID-19
and billing concerns, Baptist Memorial wanted to lift the burden from its revenue cycle
management (RCM) team while also improving patient service and the
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Report: Modern Revenue Integrity Solutions Driving Payment Performance
What You Should Know:
- New Chilmark Research report on revenue integrity
in healthcare reveals a transitional market making strides to address the new
burdens of modern care economics.
- The ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency underscores
the imperative need for automation and reduced administrative costs even
clearer.
Revenue cycle
has and continues to be one of the most difficult challenges in healthcare.
These issues manifest in the claims process of submission,
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Waystar Acquires Medicare RCM Company eSolutions at $1.3B Valuation
What You Should Know:
- Revenue cycle management provider Waystar acquires eSolutions, a provider of Medicare and Multi-Payer revenue cycle management, workflow automation, and data analytics tools at a $1.3B valuation.
- The acquisition will create the first unified
healthcare payments platform with both commercial and government payer
connectivity, resulting in greater value for providers.
Waystar, a provider of healthcare payments software, today
announced a definitive
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Top 5 RCM Challenges for Healthcare Executives in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
Brian Robertson, CEO at VisiQuate,
There have been many memorable “where were you?” events since the 21st century began. But few can match the COVID-19 pandemic, at least from a healthcare perspective.
The effect on healthcare (and healthcare executives) has been particularly profound since our industry is in the center of everything. From the search for personal protective equipment (PPE) to setting up secure wings and field hospitals to instantly redeploying nurses from other
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Centauri Health Acquires AppRev to Enhance Hospital Revenue Cycle Optimization
What You Should Know:
- Centauri Health Solutions acquires Applied Revenue
Analytics (AppRev) for undisclosed terms to enhance Centauri’s market
leadership in hospital revenue cycle optimization.
- AppRev delivers technology-enabled revenue cycle
optimization services in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.
Centauri Health
Solutions (“Centauri” or the “Company”), an innovative healthcare
technology and services company, announced today that it has acquired
Applied Revenue
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RUSH, R1 Launch Innovation Lab to Drive Value-Based Care & Advanced Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Rush University System for Health (RUSH) and R1 RCM Inc. launches a joint Innovation Lab to deliver solutions to improve the quality of care for patients.
- The Innovation Lab is expected to commercialize its
solutions beginning in 2021.
Rush University
System for Health (RUSH) and R1 RCM Inc.,
a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle
management (RCM) services to healthcare providers, announced the launch of
a joint Innovation Lab to deliver solutions
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