Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle Management

Transform your business by unlocking the full potential of your revenue cycle
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Impact Advisors Earns Best in KLAS: Financial Improvement Consulting for 2024

The Best in KLAS Financial Improvement Consulting is awarded to firms focused on improving the financial performance of a healthcare organization, which could include reducing cost, increasing net revenue, and/or improving efficiency. Engagements often assist with redesigning the revenue cycle of the organization, are very large in scope and investment (i.e., exceed a minimum of $500K), and are over six months in duration.

Impact Advisors received a score of 96.7 for Financial Improvement Consulting.

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Challenges

A high functioning revenue cycle is seamlessly embedded throughout your organization, delivering more than on-time, in-full collections. Done well, it also enhances patient experience, delivers margin improvement, enables organizations to take on more risk-based care, and provides key support for strategic decisions.

  • Improving operational margin
  • Maximizing EHR value
  • Automating without financial risk
  • Creating a positive consumer experience
  • Keeping up with shifting payer requirements and increasingly complex government regulations
Value Delivered

3-4% improvement in net patient revenue

through process redesign, technology optimization, and department redesign

Top quartile EHR conversion metrics

which help offset the cost of installation

Increased ROI 

which maximizes the value of your EHR investment

Improved patient experience and loyalty

bringing increased market share

Ability to take on more risk-based care

and compete more aggressively in the marketplace

Increasing margin pressure continues to top the list of challenges for healthcare executives. The revenue cycle – set up to work better, easier, faster – presents opportunity to move from a defensive position to an offensive one.

How We Deliver Value

Impact Advisors’ multi-faceted experts have both the real-world operations experience and technology expertise needed to fully understand the impacts of each decision made within the revenue cycle. They listen, challenge, adapt, and remain focused on your best interests, working side-by-side to implement the fixes, deliver value, and ensure your team’s long-term success.

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Design the system you need and elevate your team’s performance to take full advantage of it.

From initial planning through post-live stabilization, Impact Advisors’ experts guide the essential collaboration between IT and revenue cycle teams to design and build the EHR you envisioned and optimize workflows to fully leverage its power for maximum return on investment.

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Empower your teams to exceed performance objectives.

Impact Advisors’ revenue cycle experts work with your revenue cycle and clinical teams to uncover and implement workflow improvements that will positively impact financial performance and patient interactions. Then, we build our solutions directly into the tools your teams use, utilizing automation where appropriate, helping you realize ROI from new and existing technologies.

Typical areas of focus include:

  • AR / DNFB reduction

  • Denials reduction

  • Patient balance / POS collections

  • Charge capture improvement

  • Clinical documentation improvement

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Impact Advisors offers tailored solutions, proven methodologies, and highly experienced, knowledgeable resources to help you achieve transformational margin improvement or reach specific metric targets, such as reducing AR over 90 days or decreasing net cost to collect. We can

  • Provide targeted or comprehensive accounts receivable outsourcing solutions, including designing, staffing, managing, and scaling the operation

  • Augment your team with skilled resources and manage your operation

  • Rebadge your associates and manage your operation

  • Work together to gradually insource when you are ready

We partner with you to determine the right solution or combination of solutions, given financial objectives as well as timing and impacts of major initiatives like an EHR or ERP implementation that require tighter cash controls. The proposed plan will include the quantified return on investment and cash acceleration to demonstrate how our partnership will improve your organization’s overall financial health.

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Our highly skilled, “roll up the sleeves” resources can fill vacancies or temporarily supplement teams across your revenue cycle.  Ours are not the generic project managers and analysts that many staff augmentation firms provide – our associates have “grown up” in healthcare, working in the clinical and revenue cycle operations roles we support at our clients.

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Our experienced revenue cycle executives will seamlessly and expertly manage operations until you find the right person for the role. They will

  • Advise on near- and long-term revenue cycle departmental goals

  • Consult with leadership regarding operational performance, best practices and outcome metrics

  • Review reports generated by the department, offer interpretation and recommendations for further analysis or action

  • Offer insights for improving metrics, processes and reducing risk

  • Address day-to-day “in the moment” leadership needs

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From Robotic Process Automation to Predictive Reimbursement Analytics to Workforce Monitoring and Decision Support, Impact Advisors leverages our industry-leading technology experts to take your Revenue Cycle to the next level of performance.

Strong Stories.
Detailed Experiences.
Case Studies.

Impact Advisors helped reduce A/R by $62M for a health system consisting of 14 hospitals, 230 ambulatory facilities, urgent care centers, and long-term care and hospice facilities. Also reduced A/R >90 Days by $37M and Open Denials by $54M.

A large medical group’s decision to insource its back-end revenue cycle functions and simultaneously standardize and optimize denials management and patient collections  generated margin improvement beyond expectations.

Impact Advisors helped Oregon State Hospital implement a “best practice” Revenue Cycle. Results of the engagement include a 477% increase in average monthly cash collections.

When an integrated network of 18 hospitals, more than 40 outpatient health centers, and 200 physician offices prepared to implement an updated EHR, Impact Advisors supported the consolidation and standardization of the Charge Description Master and Charge Generation Tracker.

 

To establish trust and draw Operational and IT teams together toward a shared set of objectives, Impact Advisors’ experts leveraged prior experience working in revenue cycle leadership roles, lessons learned delivering engagements at similar organizations, and design/build expertise with the client’s EHR platform.

Our work with a large network of dermatology clinics led to a $4.6 million increase in revenue and a more than 10% increase in volume of patients seen.

$62M

reduction in A/R

$14M

Realized Savings

477%

Increase in Collections

12

CDMs Consolidated

$107M

in Cash Achieved in a Single Month

10%

Increase in Volume of Patients Seen

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Our Leaders

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Randy Notes

Our Leaders

Jim Akimchuk, Jr. - Revenue Cycle Practice Lead

Jim is an accomplished healthcare professional with over 37 years of healthcare information technology and revenue cycle operational management experience, working with academic practice plans, large group practices, hospitals, and ancillary services. He is a proven leader with strong financial, operations, billing, and technology experience as well as a successful record of transforming underperforming organizations through large-scale process redesign and change management.

Randy Notes - Margin Improvement Expert

Randy has a 25+ year career in healthcare and management consulting with focus on margin improvement and enhancement.

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