Webinar: Revenue Cycle NOW: Data, Analytics, & Accountability in the Back End

Revenue cycle leaders can’t afford to wait until month-end reporting to uncover billing issues, emerging denial trends, or revenue leakage. By the time traditional lag metrics reveal a problem, valuable time and cash may already have been lost.

Join Ascent Health’s Bill Stone, Executive Vice President of U.S. Healthcare, and fellow revenue cycle leaders for a discussion on how health systems are using real-time data, predictive analytics, and stronger performance measurement to make faster, more informed decisions across the back end. The panel will explore how organizations can better prioritize work, improve accountability across internal teams and third-party partners, strengthen payer negotiations, and turn complex revenue cycle data into actionable intelligence for leadership.

Key Takeaways

Attendees will learn how to:

• Identify financial and operational KPIs beyond traditional lag metrics to better evaluate back-end productivity and cash conversion
• Use predictive analytics to prioritize high-value work queues and improve appeal strategies
• Build scorecards and audit processes that hold third-party revenue cycle partners accountable to internal performance standards
• Turn denial trends, payment lag times, and appeal data into stronger insights for payer negotiations and contract enforcement
• Give clinical, case management, and coding teams clearer visibility into denial root causes
• Evaluate the ROI and cost-to-collect impact of back-end automation and RCM technology
• Translate revenue leakage and operational performance data into meaningful insights for hospital leadership