Welcome to “Revenue Cycle Optimized,” where you will find exclusive insights and practical advice to optimize and transform your healthcare practice’s financial health and operations.

Stuart Newsome, CPCO, hosts a lineup of industry leaders – healthcare executives, frontline professionals, tech innovators, and more – to unpack key strategies for optimizing every aspect of the revenue cycle. Think everything from patient access improvements and workflow enhancements to advanced coding practices and effective claims management strategy. We also highlight the impact of AI and automation in transforming these processes.

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Revenue Cycle Optimized

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We’re back for season 5 of The Handoff with a very special guest, Dr. Sheldon D. Fields. Dr. Fields is the inaugural Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion at Penn State University, where he is also a research professor in the College of Nursing. 

Dr. Fields was the first-ever male Registered Nurse selected for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship, in which he served as a policy adviser to Senator Barbara Mikulski on the Senate HELP committee during the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Dr. Fields is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the National Academies of Practice. 

After more than 30 years in the healthcare industry, Dr. Fields has said that it is his personal mission to do everything he can to help nursing move forward with a plan to diversify the profession. Today he and I talk about what that plan looks like, what nurse educators need to do to help combat racism in the field, how we can recruit more diverse students into nursing and how we can teach nurses and nursing students to be anti-racist.

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The Handoff: How do we teach nurses to be anti-racist?

S2E4: Host Dr. Anders interviews Mari Savickis, vice president of Public Policy for CHIME. Savickis is a long-time advocate for leveraging technology in healthcare and champions policies that improve the clinical experience for patients and providers, plus promotes innovation and competition. Dr. Anders and Savickis discuss some of the challenges of constantly changing regulations and policies, plus initiatives begun by Patient ID Now, a coalition of healthcare organizations representing a wide range of healthcare stakeholders committed to advancing through legislation and regulations a nationwide strategy to address patient identification.

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Tell Me Where IT Hurts: Mari Savickis, VP Public Policy for CHIME

Hosts Gil Bashe and Gregg Masters, MPH welcome Ramita Tandon, the Chief Clinical Trials Officer at Walgreens responsible for leading and driving growth for the company’s new clinical trials division. Ramita works across the healthcare and life sciences industries to enable next-generation clinical trials so that effective breakthrough treatments reach patients faster. They discuss unlocking value and improving access, awareness and trust by efficiently matching diverse patient populations to trials, reducing trial operational complexities and patient burdens, as well as capitalizing on Walgreens’ deep patient insights and leveraging real-world data from owned and partner assets.
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Health UnaBASHEd

Health UnaBASHEd: Ramita Tandon Chief Clinical Trials Officer Walgreens

Four Healthcare Worker Burnout Buttons to Push

David Johnson and Julie Murchinson discuss four workplace dynamics that can reduce healthcare worker burnout, according to the CDC, on the new episode of the 4sight Health Roundup podcast moderated by David Burda.

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4sight Roundup

4sight Roundup: News on 11-03-2023 - Four Healthcare Worker Burnout Buttons to Push

Host Matt Fisher is joined by Sanjula Jain, Ph.D., Chief Research Officer and Senior Vice President of Market Strategy at Trilliant Health. They discuss how the health economy defies general logic of economics; factors driving cost and outcomes in healthcare; evaluating performance of value based care; rethinking approach to value based care.

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Healthcare de Jure: Sanjula Jain, Ph.D. from Trilliant Health

The Evolution of Revenue Integrity

Learn how each stage of the revenue cycle impacts reimbursement, and strategies for refining processes to ensure that charges are both clinically sound and supported by robust documentation. 

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Revenue Cycle Optimized: The Evolution of Revenue Integrity

S2E16: What's Trending NOW are the innovations and strategies transforming digital health and Medicaid’s role in advancing health equity. Host Shahid Shah is joined by Gary Jessee, Senior Vice President of National Consulting at Sellers Dorsey, a company delivering a broad set of services and innovative solutions that improve equity, access, and quality in the Medicaid program. Gary shares insights on mental health services, telehealth for rural communities, community-based care, substance abuse initiatives, and the critical impact of social determinants of health.

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Trending NOW

Trending NOW: Gary Jessee, SVP, Sellers Dorsey

Host Dr. Lawrence Kosinski is joined by Dr. Soujanya (Chinni) Pulluru, who shares her journey through healthcare innovation and leadership, from her work at Walmart advancing employer-driven healthcare solutions to her role as Co-Chair of PTAC, where she advocates for holistic, patient-centered care. She also introduces her entrepreneurial venture, My Precious Genes, which aims to make genetic counseling more accessible and actionable, emphasizing the transformative role of genetics in GI care, from biologic treatment selection to early disease detection. Tune in to explore how collaboration and innovation are shaping the future of healthcare!

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The Scope with Dr. K: Employer-Led Innovation, Holistic Care, and Genetic Breakthroughs

From Fax to Future in Radiology Prior Authorization Workflows

Faxed orders, scanned attachments, and inbox folders shouldn’t be the reason prior authorizations are delayed. Yet for many radiology groups, that’s still the case. Manual document capture creates friction at the front of the process—forcing staff to rename, sort, and route incoming faxes before a prior auth can even begin. In this episode, we explore how automating document capture accelerates the entire prior authorization workflow. From identifying STAT orders to extracting key order details and triggering auth submissions, we’ll walk through how imaging centers are using AI-driven tools to minimize lag, reduce errors, and scale operations without burning out staff. Joining us is Charulata Nevatia, a healthcare product leader with deep experience in workflow automation. She’ll share what high-performing radiology groups are doing differently and what steps you can take to modernize intake and boost auth readiness.

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Revenue Cycle Optimized: From Fax to Future in Radiology Prior Authorization Workflows

The Realities of Reverification and the Future of Intelligent Automation

AI is everywhere in healthcare conversations, but when it comes to reverification, the reality is more complex. Each January, practices are hit with a surge of eligibility and benefits checks, straining staff and creating bottlenecks that risk revenue and patient experience. Traditional fixes like staff augmentation and manual workflows keep the lights on, but they don’t solve the underlying scalability problem. In this Office Hours, Jonathan Aguiar, Senior Solutions Engineer, and Lora Pada, AVP of Customer Success, will break down the real-world challenges of reverification, explore how staff augmentation and partial automation fill today’s gaps, and discuss how intelligent automation and AI agents are being developed to change what’s possible tomorrow.

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Revenue Cycle Optimized: The Realities of Reverification and the Future of Intelligent Automation

Bringing the Human Touch Back to AI Revenue Cycle Transformation

AI may be the buzzword of the decade, but its success depends on something far older—human connection. Join healthcare leader Nio Queiro for a candid discussion on demystifying AI, building trust across teams, and turning innovation into lasting operational change.

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Revenue Cycle Optimized: Bringing the Human Touch Back to AI Revenue Cycle Transformation

Ensuring Quality and Compliance in AI Coding

Explore how today’s AI-powered coding solutions are designed with compliance and quality at their core. This episode will highlight the safeguards built into implementation, the auditing processes that protect accuracy, and how continuous improvement ensures models evolve over time. Join us to learn how organizations can confidently adopt AI while maintaining trust, compliance, and coding excellence.

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Revenue Cycle Optimized: Ensuring Quality and Compliance in AI Coding

Region 9 HFMA: The Anatomy of AI Agents - What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Matter

AI agents don’t come with arms, legs, or eyes—but they do have something even better: the ability to think, reason, and act. As generative AI continues to evolve, so do the capabilities of AI agents—autonomous systems that can interact with applications, extract and apply knowledge, and make decisions based on context.

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Revenue Cycle Optimized: Region 9 HFMA: The Anatomy of AI Agents

Smart PT Reverification Lessons From Mary Free Bed

On this episode, hear from Mary Free Bed’s Daniel Heemstra on overcoming PT reverification challenges, supported by intelligent automation and Epic integration that simplify the process and reduce the burden on staff.

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Revenue Cycle Optimized: Smart PT Reverification Lessons From Mary Free Bed

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