A Systemwide, 12-Month Strategy to Collect $12M

As hospitals and health systems battle to increase margins and improve efficiency to remain financially healthy, revenue cycle and finance leaders have been looking to shore up processes in the revenue cycle to increase their bottom lines.

Augusta University Medical Center (AUMC) is no exception. The health system realized it was missing opportunities by not prioritizing pre-service and point-of-service payments and lacked user friendly automation, which led to a negative patient financial experience, collecting pennies on the dollar, and writing off bad debt.

Hear from Sherri Creech, AVP of patient access services at AUMC, on a 12-month strategy she implemented to save big, streamline front-end processes, and help ensure financial stability moving forward.