6 things to know about Access Healthcare

Healthcare revenue cycle management is becoming increasingly complex as the industry shifts to alternative payment models and patients take on more financial responsibility. To maintain financial health during this transition, many hospitals, health systems, and physician practices are looking for help from companies that specialize in RCM.

Access Healthcare is one such company. Founded in 2011, the Dallas-based company leverages its unique local touch- global delivery model, institutionalized best practices for RCM, and comprehensive technology suite to help provider organizations reach their financial goals.

Here are six things to know about Access Healthcare.

1. Access Healthcare helps organizations drive sustainable excellence by using a three-step operating model that involves recruiting and retaining and deploying the right people, creating a best practice revenue cycle process and applying the right technology to deliver sustainable value.

2. The company can help provider organizations drive RCM improvement by focusing on a particular point within the revenue cycle or across the continuum by applying its best practices, deep global delivery model, automation tools and process improvement methodologies.

3. From scheduling to getting the reimbursements, Access Healthcare provides comprehensive pre-visit, post-visit and entire suite of supporting revenue cycle services. The organization has deep medical coding capabilities with over 500 medical coders cutting across multiple specialties, including inpatient, emergency departments, and outpatient coding

4. Access Healthcare has experience in all major hospital and physician billing platforms and processes more than $ 50 billion in claims annually for its customers.

5. The company has added several senior leaders to its team in the last two quarters
a. Scott Schrader, Chief Commercial Officer
b. Catherine McKnight, General Counsel
c. Patti Bernstein, Senior Vice President, Client Services and
d. Angela Hickman, Vice President- Medical Coding Operations.

6. The company is a member of the following professional associations:
a) American Health Information Management Association
b) Healthcare Financial Management Association
c) Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
d) Radiology Business Management Association
e) Healthcare Billing & Management Association
f) American College of Emergency Physicians
g) Medical Group Management Association of Massachusetts/Rhode Island
h) American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management
i) Association of Dental Support Organizations