Outcome-based RCM Services

Unlock predictable and sustainable revenue excellence

Transform revenue cycle management challenges into robust financial health with Ascent’s expertise infused with tech-led innovations

Navigating the complexities of revenue cycle management

Are you facing the complexities of Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) in healthcare? With rising costs, regulatory shifts, payer challenges, and staff shortages, the challenges are significant.

Ascent confronts these complexities head-on with a full range of services powered by the ARMS Ai platform, aimed to boost cash flow, reduce claim touches, and enhance transparency throughout the RCM process. Our outcomes-based approach simplifies and streamlines RCM processes, ensuring strong financial health, operational harmony and enhanced patient experiences.

Navigating the complexities of revenue cycle management

Transformative RCM outcomes we deliver

Substantial increase in cash flow

Reduction in A/R days

Ultimate precision and accuracy

Automated denial processing

Increased revenue efficiency

Improved patient engagement

Increased financial transparency

Automated workforce management

The numbers of impact

$250 Million

In increased revenue captured

98% Clean claims

Submission rate

50% Reduction

In touches per claim

30% Faster

Claims processing

95%

Process quality scores

4,500+ Physicians

Trusting Ascent for RCM

Our RCM capabilities for predictable financial outcomes

From managing specific processes to end-to-end RCM lifecycle management, industry’s best RCM experts with a blend of 25 years of knowledge and technology platform works for you to address challenges and see predictable outcomes so your team can focus on delivering exceptional patient care.

Patient intake management

Ascent redefines patient experiences with a comprehensive approach to patients’ care journey. Our patient-centric expert team manages the entire process of patient intake management with a focus on creating exceptional patient experiences while relieving healthcare providers of administrative burdens.

Our services cover the entire spectrum of patient journey management. ARMS Ai platform streamlines and tech enables all touchpoints to enhance precision and efficiency at every step, reducing administrative burdens and allowing your staff to focus on value-based activities that elevate patient care.

  • Patient profile and demographics capture
  • Insurance eligibility & benefits verification
  • Patient referral management
  • Pre-authorizations
  • Accurate and timely fast cost estimates
40% Reduction
In overhead costs
95%
Process quality

Medical coding

At Ascent, we redefine medical coding with our expansive team of AAPC- and AHIMA-certified coders. We offer comprehensive medical coding solutions designed to elevate your coding department’s efficiency significantly. With expertise spanning 30+ specialties and facilities, including hospitals, medical practices, and ambulatory surgical centers, we enable you to focus on your core mission.

Our medical coding solutions prioritize precision and efficiency, reducing errors and enhancing revenue integrity. We harness the power of AI and expert knowledge to ensure each code is accurate, compliant, and optimized for reimbursement. Our expert coders, supported by AI-powered tools, guarantee precise coding that maximizes reimbursement while minimizing compliance risks.

  • AAPC & AHIMA certified coders
  • 30+ specialty-focused coding experts
  • Compliance with evolving regulations
  • Swift coding for faster revenue cycles
  • Coding documentation and audits
3 Days
Avg. reduction in
claim submission
2%
Increase in
coding accuracy

At Ascent, we redefine medical coding with our expansive team of AAPC- and AHIMA-certified coders. We offer comprehensive medical coding solutions designed to elevate your coding department’s efficiency significantly. With expertise spanning 30+ specialties and facilities, including hospitals, medical practices, and ambulatory surgical centers, we enable you to focus on your core mission.

Our medical coding solutions prioritize precision and efficiency, reducing errors and enhancing revenue integrity. We harness the power of AI and expert knowledge to ensure each code is accurate, compliant, and optimized for reimbursement. Our expert coders, supported by AI-powered tools, guarantee precise coding that maximizes reimbursement while minimizing compliance risks.

Denials management and prevention

Denials pose a significant challenge to revenue cycles. Ascent deploys a revolutionary denials management service that sets the industry standard. Our proactive approach identifies potential issues before they lead to denials, and our resolution strategies efficiently manage and reverse denials when they occur. By resolving denials swiftly and ensuring compliance with payer policies, we maximize your cash flow and prevent revenue leakage.

We leverage the formidable power of our ARMS Ai platform, equipped with over 1,000 AI, ML, and NLP models. This advanced technology allows us to proactively identify potential denial risks, flag claims with precision, and employ automated anomaly detection. With Ascent, you can trust in a streamlined revenue cycle that operates flawlessly, enabling you to focus on delivering top-notch patient care.

  • Fast resolution of denied claims
  • Denials prevention and mitigation
  • Predictive denials and risk pattern identification
  • Effective resolution strategies
  • Claim validation and flagging
  • Payer policy compliance
40% Reduction
in claim denials
10% Revenue increase
in less than <12 months

Medical billing and payment posting

Medical billing and payment posting are critical functions for healthcare organizations, and Ascent has a proven track record in billing and payment posting. We understand the challenges healthcare providers face in managing payer-based claims edits and ensuring accurate payment posting.

Our transformative approach to billing and collections optimizes the entire revenue cycle. We focus on streamlining billing processes to enhance cash flow and alleviate the burden on your staff. Our expert team, supported by ARMS Ai platform, manages billing and payment posting process, ensuring the timely submission of clean claims plus accurate posting for capture of accurate payments from payers.

  • Automated and accurate posting
  • Payer underpayment identification and processing
  • Reduced charge lag process
  • Accelerated claims edit function
  • Accurate identification of claims that will be denied
95% accuracy
for claims that
will be denied
30% reduction
in charge lag

Medical billing and payment posting are critical functions for healthcare organizations, and Ascent has a proven track record in billing and payment posting. We understand the challenges healthcare providers face in managing payer-based claims edits and ensuring accurate payment posting.

Our transformative approach to billing and collections optimizes the entire revenue cycle. We focus on streamlining billing processes to enhance cash flow and alleviate the burden on your staff. Our expert team, supported by ARMS Ai platform, manages billing and payment posting process, ensuring the timely submission of clean claims plus accurate posting for capture of accurate payments from payers.

Insights and analytics

Ascent takes RCM operations analytics to the next level by turning structured and unstructured data into outcomes-centric insights. Our healthcare-centric team of data scientists and business intelligence experts curate data from diverse sources and transform it into ready-to-act insights, empowering leadership to make swift data-backed decisions that drive predictable revenue growth, and achieve operational harmony.

The backbone of our analytics delivery is the robust ARMS Ai platform that harnesses the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Quantitative Analytics. ARMS Ai extracts actionable insights from vast datasets, transforming raw data into clear, visual dashboards and intuitive reports, ensuring that leadership has the intelligence they need to make confident decisions.

  • Tailored dashboards and reports
  • Financial health and revenue performance reports
  • Billing and collection metrics
  • Aging and Accounts Receivable Turnover (ART)
  • Denials and Appeal trends and analysis
  • Financial forecasting
  • Workforce management

Unparalleled security and compliance

Protecting sensitive patient data is a top priority for us. Ascent employs stringent security measures and adheres to industry regulations like HIPAA to ensure the highest level of data protection and compliance.
  • Advanced data encryption and security protocols
  • Regular security audits and updates
  • Strict adherence to HIPAA and
    other regulatory requirements
  • Protection of patient privacy
Protecting sensitive patient data is a top priority for us. Ascent employs stringent security measures and adheres to industry regulations like HIPAA to ensure the highest level of data protection and compliance.

ARMS Ai: The platform powering unprecedented RCM excellence

The purpose-built platform for a new era of speed, simplicity, accuracy, and outcomes-focused accountability in revenue cycle management

At the core of Ascent’s outcome-focused Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) services lies the most powerful and adaptable ARMS Ai platform. This powerful platform serves as the backbone of our RCM solutions, driving speed, efficiency, accuracy, and strategic decision-making throughout the healthcare revenue cycle.

Whether we are managing a single process or an end-to-end revenue cycle, ARMS Ai empowers our expert team to achieve profound results in remarkably short timeframes. With over 1,000 AI, ML, and NLP models, ARMS Ai brings unprecedented agility to every facet of RCM. With the power of this platform, we consistently deliver transformative outcomes in record time, ensuring that healthcare organizations can quickly unlock the full potential of their revenue cycles.

 

Case study

$12 million increase in cash flow for a Vascular health provider

Say goodbye to staffing challenges

Healthcare providers are constantly battling staffing challenges that not only impact care delivery but financial health. With Ascent, you gain access to our vast team of over 3,000 RCM experts, ensuring that your organization is never short-handed. 

Whether you need support for a specific part of your RCM lifecycle or require comprehensive, end-to-end management, Ascent has the expertise and resources to meet your needs. From specialized coders to seasoned billing professionals, our team covers every facet of RCM and seamlessly integrates into your existing operations, enhancing your team’s capabilities.

 

Deep know-how of 30+ specialties and facilities

Ascent brings unparalleled expertise and understanding of unique processes and nuances of revenue cycle and operations across various medical facilities and specialties. This knowledge enables the development of specialized RCM strategies tailored to the distinct needs of providers across the healthcare spectrum.

Tailored solutions
Specialities
  • Inpatient Care Facilities
  • Ambulatory Surgery Centers
  • Free Standing Emergency Rooms
  • Home Health Care
  • Rehabilitation Hospitals
  • Long Term Acute Care Hospitals (LTACH)
  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • Family Practice
  • ⁠Hospitalist
  • Urgent Care
  • Allergy & immunology
  • Anesthesia
  • Cardiology
  • Colon Rectal Surgery
  • Dermatology
  • DME
  • Emergency Medicine
  • ENT
  • Gastroenterology
  • ⁠Pediatrics
  • Physical Therapy
  • ⁠Podiatry
  • Pulmonary Disease
  • Radiology
  • Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Rheumatology
  • Urology
  • Internal Medicine
  • Interventional Pain Management
  • Laboratory-Clinical Pathology
  • Nephrology
  • Neurosurgery
  • OB/GYN
  • Oncology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopedics

Tailored solutions

  • Inpatient Care Facilities
  • Ambulatory Surgery Centers
  • Free Standing Emergency Rooms
  • Home Health Care
  • Rehabilitation Hospitals
  • Long Term Acute Care Hospitals (LTACH)
  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • Family Practice
  • ⁠Hospitalist
  • Urgent Care
  • ⁠Pediatrics
  • Physical Therapy
  • ⁠Podiatry
  • Pulmonary Disease
  • Radiology
  • Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Rheumatology
  • Urology

Specialities

  • Allergy & immunology
  • Anesthesia
  • Cardiology
  • Colon Rectal Surgery
  • Dermatology
  • DME
  • Emergency Medicine
  • ENT
  • Gastroenterology
  • Internal Medicine
  • Interventional Pain Management
  • Laboratory-Clinical Pathology
  • Nephrology
  • Neurosurgery
  • OB/GYN
  • Oncology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopedics

Tailored solutions

With 25 years of experience serving healthcare providers, we recognize the unique challenges faced by every healthcare provider. Our commitment to outcome-based Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is demonstrated by our ability to tailor solutions to your specific needs. Whether you’re a small clinic or a large hospital, our dedicated team excels at creating tailored RCM strategies with scalability aligned with your growth plans.

Why choose Ascent?

Choosing Ascent means partnering with a leader in healthcare innovation and efficiency.

Don’t let the complexities of revenue cycle management hold your healthcare organization back. When you partner with Ascent, you’re not just choosing a service provider; you’re choosing a partner dedicated to elevating every aspect of your revenue cycle management and harmonizing operations. Our team backed by innovative digital solutions is committed to understanding your specific challenges and tailoring our approach to meet and exceed your expectations.

25+ years of commitment and deep expertise

3000+ people with RCM expertise
End-to-end RCM coverage
Industry leading ARMS Ai platform
Delivery first – margins later approach
Future-ready scalability
Outcomes at up to 40% less cost
Retention of institutional knowledge

“They have the people, they have understanding and they have outcomes.  Working with Ascent is like my organization and not like working with a partner - I have taken them as my own and they have received me as theirs.”

VP of RCM

Taxas-based Infusion Inc.

Client Results

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