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

Best of 2024

Top 20 Episodes of 2024
The top 10 played episodes for radio shows in 2024 and the top 10 played episodes for the podcast shows in 2024.

Most Played Episodes of 2024

N765 Indirect Mentoring

S1E9: What is the Future of Health Education?

To shift from a reactive sick care system to one that is proactive and preventive, we need an interdependent approach to medical education — or should we say health education? 

Join Dr. Sherine Gabriel, Executive Vice President for Health at Arizona State University, and host Ann Somers Hogg, as they discuss a new model for medical education that improves health through an interdependent approach. 

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Life-Centered Health Care

Life-Centered Health Care: What is the Future of Health Education?

Hosts Gil Bashe and Gregg Masters welcome David B. Klein, the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Click Therapeutics, a company that specializes in developing and commercializing software as prescription medical treatments for patients with unmet medical needs. The company’s strategy is grounded in the science of change, aiming to empower patients to modify the underlying mechanisms of their conditions. This includes targeting thoughts, sensations, emotions, and behaviors that define their experience of the disease. By doing so, Click Therapeutics seeks to help patients achieve healthier and happier lives.

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Health UnaBASHEd

Health UnaBASHEd: David B. Klein, Founder & CEO. Click Therapeutics

Hosts Gil Bashe and Gregg Masters welcome Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society). They discuss his career trajectory, including tenure at Permanente Medical Group and goals for HIMSS going forward, as well as previewing the upcoming annual conference and exhibition in Orlando, Florida, from March 11th – 15th, 2024.

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Health UnaBASHEd: Hal Wolf President and CEO HIMSS

Future of Marketing Series: Kyle Smith, Noom

Kyle Smith, Head of Marketing for Healthcare at Noom, joins Jared and guest co-host Paul Schrimpf for the first in a special mini-series about the future of marketing. Hear how Noom's consumer business was born from failure and how Kyle's team experiments with new tools, looks for value, and either adopts them or moves on. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about University of Rochester Medical Center’s innovative way to bring healthcare to bank branches. How is URMC using unconventional partnerships to improve access in rural communities, and what other solutions can we discover as we follow their lead with more collective problem solving? 

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Healthcare Rap

Healthcare Rap: Future of Marketing Series: Kyle Smith, Noom

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. 

Brought to you by www.infinx.com.

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Revenue Cycle Optimized: The Evolution of Revenue Integrity

Episode 5: Selling to Supply Chain and Department Leaders in Healthcare

On this episode host Lisa Miller discusses navigating centralized versus decentralized decision-making and addressing budget constraints and supply disruptions. She provides insights on strategic positioning in competitive situations and highlights the significance of respect, empathy, and authentic communication.

Lisa details essential tools for internal buy-in, including surveys, ROI calculators, and case studies, demonstrating their effectiveness in gaining stakeholder support.

The episode underscores the importance of aligning with supply chain priorities and demonstrating long-term value when selling to healthcare professionals, offering practical approaches for successful engagements.

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Selling to Healthcare

Selling to Healthcare: E5-Selling to Supply Chain and Department Leaders in Healthcare

Ep 117 - Sarah Kachur- ACOs Saved Billions in 2023: Can They Sustain This Beyond 2025?

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have made great strides in enhancing patient care and reducing costs, saving $3.1 billion in 2023. The recently released report based on ACO performance in 2023 (PY2023) provides valuable insights into where ACOs are excelling. On this episode Dan sits down with Sarah Kachur PharmD, MBA, BCACP, Executive Director of Strategy and Solutions at Johns Hopkins Population Health Analytics, to discuss the key findings of the report and what they reveal about the future of ACOs. Gain insights into the priorities of the most successful ACOs (in PY 2023) and their predictions for changes and challenges in 2025 and beyond.

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Value-Based Care Insights

VBC Insights: Sarah Kachur - ACOs Saved Billions in 2023: Can They Sustain This Beyond 2025?

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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Revenue Cycle Optimized: The Evolution of Revenue Integrity

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