Revenue Cycle

The Denial Nobody Owns Is the One Costing You the Most

Why payer contracting must collaborate across patient access, coding, billing, collections, and revenue integrity to close the revenue cycle's most expensive blind spot

Nobody Was Checking. One Analyst Found $2 Million.

The most innovative payment methodology means nothing if nobody checks whether it works. Without that, it's not an innovation. It's an assumption.

Front-Line Staff Are Costing You Millions. It's Not Their Fault.

How healthcare organizations can turn payer relationships into revenue strategy: denial reduction, cash acceleration, and staff education as infrastructure

Your Payer's Directory Is Wrong. Your Contract Doesn't Care.

Why the most-used document in managed care gets the least attention by your contracting team.

You Negotiated With People. A Computer Denied Your Claim.

Your appeal rights were written for a clinician who would read the chart. The denial came back in eleven minutes, so in this case, nobody did.

Your UR Nurse Holds Your Best Payer Contract Evidence

Your best enforcement record already exists. It's sitting in a queue on the wrong floor, in front of someone nobody thought to ask.

A Mid-Contract Policy Change Isn't a Clinical Dispute

Why a mid-contract payer policy change is a contract performance issue, not a clinical dispute

Payer Relations and Patient Access Are One System on Two Floors

Seven ways to connect contracting and patient access so the terms you negotiate actually hold up at the front desk

Your HFMA Membership Has a Gym Membership Problem

Why HFMA Enterprise Membership underdelivers when organizations pay for access without activating it, and the three moves that fix it

The Contract You Signed Isn't the Contract You're Getting Paid On

Why administrative friction, not fee schedules, is the real managed care battlefield now

Second Chances Build Stronger Healthcare Finance Teams

Why extending grace after a misstep builds stronger, more adaptable healthcare finance teams

Payment Integrity Audits Don't Have to Be a Fight

How payers and providers can turn audits from a source of friction into a shared framework for fairness, transparency, and accurate payment

Bring Revenue Cycle In Before You Negotiate, Not After You Sign

Six practices for aligning revenue cycle leaders with your contract negotiation team, before the ink dries instead of after

The Negotiation Isn't the Hard Part of a Payer Contract. The Implementation Is.

A phase-by-phase checklist for integrating a new managed care agreement into your revenue cycle, from signature to steady state

Most Medical Necessity Denials Come From a Silo, Not a Clinical Problem

Five ways collaboration between Utilization Management and Managed Care Contracting can cut denials for notification and medical necessity

Becker's Podcast: Pushing Back on Aggressive Payer Tactics

Becker's Healthcare Podcast, Becker's Revenue Cycle, and Becker's CFO Podcast