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.

The Handoff

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 

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

From Prior Authorization Chaos to Clear AI Orchestration

Prior authorization isn’t just broken — it’s unsynchronized. On this episode, Evan Martin, VP of Revenue Cycle Management at ZoomCare Inc as well as Host and Producer of The Wilshire’s IT RevCast, shares what happens when real-time care delivery meets a fragmented, rule-heavy prior auth system that can’t keep up. With just one authorization specialist covering 50 clinics, Evan paints a clear picture: today’s healthcare moves fast, but prior auth is still stumbling through a maze of plan-specific rules, outdated workflows, and underperforming automation tools. We explore how even routine imaging, meds, and mental health services become tangled in conflicting payer policies and benefit silos. Evan breaks down the bottlenecks, the firefighting, and the policy blind spots — plus why simply layering automation on top won’t fix it. The real opportunity? An orchestrated model powered by agentic AI triages, retrieves, and routes the right information to the right place — so human teams can actually focus on patient care. This isn’t theory. It’s the lived complexity of treating patients while waiting for permission — and what the future could look like if we finally got the process in tune.

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Revenue Cycle Optimized: From Prior Authorization Chaos to Clear AI Orchestration

Closing the Visibility Gap in Patient Access Metrics

Many hospitals lack real-time visibility into front-end revenue cycle metrics like prior auth status and registration accuracy. This episode explores how closing that visibility gap can reduce denials, improve staff performance, and drive better financial outcomes.

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Revenue Cycle Optimized: Closing the Visibility Gap in Patient Access Metrics

How Radiology Teams Modernize Intake Without Disrupting Epic Workflows

Modernizing radiology intake means more than sending documents to Epic—it’s about building accuracy into the process. Learn how AI-powered document capture uses HL7 ORM mapping to handle multi-patient faxes, duplicates, and poor-quality images, with a phased rollout that keeps data clean and workflows running smoothly.

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Revenue Cycle Optimized: How Radiology Teams Modernize Intake Without Disrupting Epic Workflows

Over 70% of imaging centers still depend on manual referral, scheduling, and prior auth processes—slowing care and straining staff. In this episode, Stuart Newsome, CPCO, VP of RCM Insights at Infinx, shows how AI agents powered by generative AI are transforming radiology operations. See how these “invisible coworkers” integrate with RIS, PACS, and EHRs to automate tasks, improve efficiency, and deliver real results.

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Revenue Cycle Optimized: RBMA Founders Day: From Bots to Brains

Rural hospitals don’t need another cost-cutting cliché. They need to reclaim what’s already theirs. On this episode, Taylor Searfoss from Infinx highlights the hidden dollars buried in hospital workflows—and shows you how to find them.

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Revenue Cycle Optimized: Hidden Dollars: A Rural Hospital’s Guide to Financial Survival

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