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The latest in thought leadership from Alpha HealthWhy You Should Insist on A SaaS Plus Shared Savings Model for Investments in Automation
Demand more from your technology partners Author: Sean Lara, Managing Director of Business Development Let’s begin with a simple question: are you buying a hammer, or are you buying a house? The former is a means, the latter is an end. The question seems simple...
Published Research: Machine Learning Model, Deep Claim, Successfully Predicts Claims Outcomes
Deep Claim paper featured in Spotlight Session at ICML2020 Author: Alpha Health The U.S. spent about $3.6 trillion on healthcare in 2018, more than $11,000 per person, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Recent studies have found that fully...
How to Automate Revenue Cycle Without Disrupting Current Workflows
Author: Braden Decker, Alpha Health To say that the last three months have thrown an unprecedented amount of change to revenue cycle leaders would be a pretty significant understatement. Now, more than ever, is the time to look for ways to harden the revenue cycle...
Automaton is Key to Unlocking Operational Scale in Healthcare
Authors Scott Hori and Sean Lara, Alpha Health Healthcare in America is incredibly expensive. While the underlying cause is multifaceted and nuanced, many healthcare leaders agree on one thing - that the concept of “scale” as a solution has become clouded by overuse...
Why Revenue Cycle Automation is Now Mission Critical for Healthcare Delivery
Author Sean Lara, Managing Director of Business Development For healthcare leaders across the country, the early spring headlines have made for uneasy reading: “Nation’s Hospitals Losing About $50B A Month Fighting Pandemic” (1)“COVID-19 Pushes Median Hospital...
The Road Map to Automating Revenue Cycle Management
Author: Ben Beadle-Ryby, Cofounder, Alpha Health Over the last 18 to 24 months, health systems have been rapidly introduced to the concept of process automation in several key functional areas including the revenue cycle. The shift in market awareness and appetite for...
Insight Into Consumer Attitudes Should Inform How We Return To Routine Care
Author: Alpha Health Team While the U.S. experiments with how best to reopen after shelter in place orders are eased, healthcare providers across the country are grappling with the same questions, and, in many cases, are setting the example for the rest of their...
The Revenue Cycle of the Future
Authors: Ben Beadle-Ryby, Cofounder, Alpha Health For more than 10 years, my professional life has been devoted to improving finance operations for health care providers, with a focus on revenue cycle performance. Over those years and across the more than 150 health...
The Evolution of a Revenue Cycle KPI
Authors: Christian Carlson and Scott Hori Varun Ganapathi is an Alpha Health co-founder, our chief technology officer, and one of the smartest people we know. Constantly seeking to enhance his understanding of Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) operations, Varun turned to...
How Did Paying For Healthcare In The U.S. Get So Complicated?
And What Can We Do About It? Author: Malinka Walaliyadde, Co-Founder & CEO, Alpha Health Global healthcare statistics show that the US, by far, has the world’s most expensive healthcare system. Despite this massive spend, our outcomes are middling at...
Pioneering Unified Automation For Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management
Author: Alpha Health At Alpha Health, we believe that every dollar spent on healthcare matters, because healthcare matters to everyone. Complexity in medical reimbursement in the United States drives up hidden costs that we all pay; both in terms of dollars, and, in...
Running Remote Revenue Cycle Teams Successfully
Author Amy Raymond, Head of Revenue Cycle Operations Many revenue cycle teams at health systems across the country have been navigating a rapid transition to remote work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. For most, this was an unplanned transition that had to be...