Here are 74 revenue cycle management service expansions involving healthcare vendors and providers implemented or announced this year:
1. Landmark Hospitals, a Naples, Fla.-based system of critical care facilities, chose HCS Interactant as its RCM and financial platform.
2. Recondo Technology, a Denver-based RCM solutions company, plans to put a greater focus on its automated solutions with advanced machine learning and other artificial intelligence capabilities.
3. Aquina Health launched Curae to provide non-recourse-based financing for patients.
4. Vituity, an integrated, multispecialty partnership of physicians, advanced providers and healthcare professionals, will open an office in Leawood, Kan., to offer billing and administrative services to providers.
5. Aquiline Capital Partners acquired revenue cycle management company Aspirion Health Resources.
6. An unnamed large West Coast-based academic hospital revealed plans to deploy eValuator automated pre-bill coding analysis technology from Streamline Health Solutions.
7. GeBBS Healthcare Solutions revealed plans to open its second delivery center in Manila, Philippines.
8. Methodist Health System in Dallas chose VisitPay's cloud-based patient financial experience platform.
9. TransUnion agreed to purchase Healthcare Payment Specialists, a healthcare advisory service focused on Medicare reimbursement.
10. AccessOne completed its acquisition of patient financial services provider HealthFirst Financial.
11. Wellsoft Corp. and Venture Development-GoRev are teaming up to provide urgent care centers with an EHR, practice management and RCM solution suite.
12. GeBBS Healthcare Solutions partnered with Prospect Medical Holdings for health information management and RCM.
13. R1 RCM completed its acquisition of Intermedix Corp. for about $460 million.
14. Health IT company MTBC agreed to acquire most of Orion Healthcorp's revenue cycle, practice management and group purchasing organization assets, as well as assets of 13 of its affiliate companies.
15. The SSI Group revealed a new revenue cycle offering called Access Director.
16. Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke's University Health Network is offering patients more options for paying their medical expenses and managing their finances via its new online bill pay system.
17. Healthcare RCM software provider Ontario Systems acquired Justice Systems.
18. Loyale Healthcare and ClearBalance entered a partnership that will expand Loyale's patient engagement platform to include ClearBalance's patient financing solutions.
19. Xifin, a healthcare IT company, and PriorAuthNow, a software company, partnered to help hospital-based and independent labs with prior authorization.
20. R1 RCM will provide expanded services to South Bend, Ind.-based Beacon Health System.
21. The Texas Hospital Association and Connance, a provider of predictive analytics solutions, are teaming up for revenue cycle management improvement.
22. Cognizant closed its acquisition of RCM company Bolder Healthcare Solutions.
23. Citizens Medical Center in Victoria, Texas, partnered with AccessOne, a Fort Mill, S.C.-based provider of patient financing options.
24. OmiSYS and Comprehensive Pharmacy Services are joining forces to provide technology solutions designed for hospitals' retail pharmacies.
25. Infinitt North America, a healthcare image and data management solutions developer, revealed it will provide ImagineSoftware's medical billing solution.
26. HealthCare Futures, Premier Healthcare Systems and RSI Enterprises joined forces to launch an RCM company.
27. MedData, a provider of RCM solutions, has a new patient financial platform.
28. Navigant Consulting and Miami-based Baptist Health South Florida created an RCM joint venture.
29. SCI Solutions, a Seattle-based patient scheduling, referral management and revenue cycle software provider, added DatStat to its portfolio.
20. Healthcare Administrative Partners, a provider of RCM solutions, launched a radiology-focused clinical data analytics and business service called Deep Dive Analytics.
31. Triad Radiology Associates, a Winston-Salem, N.C.-based radiology practice, picked Healthcare Administrative Partners for RCM and practice management services.
32. AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions added to its healthcare finance offerings with the acquisition of Professional Management Inc.
33. QueueLogix, a provider of RCM software and services and a HealthChannels subsidiary, partnered with ReferWell, a cloud-based platform focused on the medical referral process.
34. Revenue cycle services company Advantum Health acquired Med Advantage, a provider enrollment and credentialing verification organization, March 6.
35. CareCloud, a provider of RCM, practice management, EHR and patient experience management solutions, will host a summit this fall focused on physician practices that use the company's technology and services.
36, The Queen's Health Systems in Honolulu partnered with AccessOne, a provider of patient payment options.
37. Cognizant agreed to acquire RCM company Bolder Healthcare Solutions.
38. Sonoma (Calif.) Valley Hospital, a 75-bed district facility, chose health IT solutions provider ezDI for various tools aimed at revenue cycle improvement.
39. R1 RCM revealed its new revenue cycle platform called Patient Experience.
40. VitalWare is adding a professional Revenue Integrity Services business unit.
41. Columbia-based University of Missouri Health Care revealed plans to deploy Cerner's RCM offerings at various facilities.
42. iVita Financial, a patient payment solutions provider, is offering patients a loan program that will allow them to pay before treatment.
43. RevSolve, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based provider of receivables management and recovery solutions, merged with USCB America, a Los Angeles-based provider of business process outsourcing and accounts receivable management solutions.
44. Health IT vendor eClinicalWorks will offer hospitals and health systems a new platform for acute care EHR and revenue cycle management.
45. Revint Solutions, a national healthcare solutions and consulting services provider, acquired healthcare data analytics firm Naveos.
46. St. Louis-based Ascension chose R1 RCM to serve its medical group's physician practice care sites.
47. R1 RCM entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Intermedix Corp. for about $460 million.
48. Ability Network and Hands On Technology are joining forces on RCM offerings for physical therapy providers.
49. Cincinnati-based Mercy Health chose healthcare RCM company PMMC for contract management and modeling.
50. Chicago-based Presence Health revealed plans to deploy R1 RCM's end-to-end revenue cycle services in its 10 hospitals and more than 150 Illinois physician care locations.
51. Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Halifax Health and AccessOne entered a revenue cycle management partnership.
52. Healthcare payment solutions provider Rectangle Health and Jacksonville, Ark.-based North Metro Medical Center entered an RCM partnership.
53. GeBBS, an RCM and health information management solutions provider, joined forces with Continuum Health, a provider of physician engagement and payer value-based solutions, for RCM solutions.
54. Revenue cycle solutions provider Surgical Notes released an updated mobile transcription app for its ambulatory surgery center and surgical hospital clients.
55. Windham Brannon and Digitize.AI are teaming up to deliver artificial intelligence and intelligent automation resources to healthcare providers for improved revenue cycle management performance.
56. San Francisco-based Pacific Inpatient Medical Group, a 100-plus physician organization on seven Sutter Health campuses in northern California, implemented MD Coder 10 Charge Capture Solution software from Medical Design Technologies.
57. Revenue cycle management organizations Navicure and ZirMed revealed the name of their combined company: Waystar.
58. InSync Healthcare Solutions, a cloud-based healthcare technology software provider, added Encoda's BackOffice platform to its revenue cycle offerings.
59. Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, an accounting and advisory firm aims to help healthcare providers improve revenue cycle performance through its new innovation center.
60. Mediware Information Systems, a provider of healthcare and human services software, acquired revenue cycle solutions provider MEDTranDirect.
61. Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare acquired a $20 million stake in revenue cycle management services provider R1 RCM.
62. Frost-Arnett, a provider of healthcare accounts receivable management, and HealthiPASS, a digital check-in and patient payments platform, revealed plans to join forces to help providers with revenue cycle improvement.
63. Intermountain Healthcare revealed plans to transfer roughly 2,300 nonclinical employees to R1 RCM.
64. The United States Army Medical Command awarded $100 million in medical coding contracts to professional services firm Mindseeker.
65. Sunnyside, Wash.-based Astria Health selected Cerner's integrated EHR and revenue cycle management systems.
66. Nordic, a health IT solutions provider, revealed plans to add The Claro Group's revenue cycle transformation practice.
67. Flywire, an international payment and receivables solutions provider, revealed plans to add OnPlanU and OnPlan Health.
68. Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, N.Y., will deploy a number of revenue cycle offerings from ezDI, a Louisville, Ky.-based health IT solutions provider.
69. AccessOne, provider of patient payment options, agreed to acquire patient financial services provider HealthFirst Financial.
70. Baltimore-based Bon Secours Health System selected Effy Healthcare, a healthcare solutions provider focusing on financial, operational and clinical areas, for RCM.
71. Change Healthcare revealed the general availability of its blockchain solution for healthcare.
72. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and Harris Healthcare inked an RCM contract.
73. Philadelphia, Miss.-based Neshoba County General Hospital and Nursing Home selected Cerner's integrated EHR and RCM system.
74. Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health and Cerner expanded their partnership.