A physician in a hospital would never just treat a patient’s symptoms without looking for the cause. Yet that’s what often happens inside a hospital’s revenue cycle when teams focus on end results like rising denials, aging AR, and increasing bad debt instead of the upstream gaps that cause them.
By the time those end-of-cycle symptoms appear, it’s too late to do anything but address them directly. A more proactive strategy is to find and fix weak points earlier in the revenue cycle.
As the true impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) takes shape and the potential for unpaid patient balances and bad debt increases, it’s an ideal time to administer some preventive care to your revenue cycle. Fixing issues now could make a huge difference as RCM pressure builds.
Learn more about how hospitals can identify and close revenue cycle gaps upstream before they turn into significant cash-flow issues later on:
