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Introducing the Solventum Revenue Integrity System

Introducing the Solventum Revenue Integrity System from Sift and Solventum. This AI-driven solution unifies clinical and payments data, predicts and prevents clinical denials and optimizes revenue cycle management.

Bethany Grabher
September 25, 2019
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Navigating the Surge in Payer Takebacks

A look at why takebacks are challenging denials for healthcare providers, and how machine learning and advanced analytics can help health systems navigate this increasingly common payer reimbursement trend.

Justin Nicols
June 19, 2019
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2022 Healthcare Denials Insights

Denials are a significant and persistent obstacle for health systems and hospitals. They slow down receivables and add unnecessary administrative burdens. Sift Healthcare’s 2022 Denials Insight Report contains granular denials insights and action items to track root causes, prevent denials, and prioritize follow-up work.

Sift Insights Team
August 16, 2022
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4 Key Areas To Focus On To Recover Missed Receivables Or Accelerate Cash

Sift's VP of Product & Client Success, Blake Sollenberger, talks denials management, covering 4 key areas health systems and hospitals can focus on to recover missed receivables or accelerate cash.

Blake Sollenberger
February 18, 2022
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Sift Denials Insight: Non-Covered Emergency Department Denials

A golden nugget of intelligence from the Sift Healthcare Insights Team. How to think about, track and manage non-covered Emergency Department Denials from Medicare.

Sift Insights Team
August 16, 2022
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Sift Denials Insight: NGS Medicare Denials

A golden nugget of intelligence from the Sift Healthcare Insights Team. For health systems that work with NGS Medicare, Lacks Info Needed For Adjudication denials need a special review.

Sift Insights Team
August 16, 2022
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Inappropriate Denials By Medicare Advantage Organizations Is Widespread

HHS confirms what all hospital revenue cycle leaders have known for years, the inappropriate denials of services and payment by Medicare Advantage Organizations is widespread and persistent.

Blake Sollenberger
February 18, 2022
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It's Time To Move Past These 3 Common Revenue Cycle Management Mistakes

It's time for health systems and hospitals to move past these three all-too-common business tactics that have remained constant, despite the ever-changing payer landscape and the mounting pressure for providers to lower costs and provide a more seamless payments experience.

Blake Sollenberger
February 18, 2022
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3 Ways Data Can Fix Denials

The impact of insurance claim denials for healthcare providers in 2021, and how providers' own historical payments data and machine learning provide solutions for both denials prevention and appeals prioritization.

Justin Nicols
June 19, 2019
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The 25% Challenge

Sift Healthcare is proud to be participating in AVIA's 25% challenge, aimed at helping US health systems adopt digital technologies that will reduce the notorious administrative waste in healthcare.

Sarah Buchler
June 26, 2020
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What Dirt Do You Move First?

Unless your hospital or health system's denial rate is 0% you're missing earned revenue. Denials management is more than clean claim rate and prevention. How you prioritize insurance denials has a powerful impact on cash flow and revenue. Predictive analytics can tell you which denials your teams should work, in what order, to get the best payment outcomes.

Justin Nicols
June 19, 2019
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High Dollar Denials Are Often The Least Likely To Be Paid.

Healthcare providers face an uphill battle when it comes to claim denials. Their denials management strategy should be to prioritize the denials that are most likely to be overturned (paid). These denials can be identified using data science -- advanced modeling on denials history, data pulled from 835’s and 837’s.

Justin Nicols
June 19, 2019
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What's Going On In Your Payments Data

Normalized and organized data is a gap in healthcare analytics, even in claim denials management. This is why Sift Healthcare is proud to introduce our Denials Dashboards. Sift scrubs and maps your 835 and 837 data to build a single, normalized data set. This data is organized in an intuitive interface that offers you a new level of oversight for the revenue cycle.

Bethany Grabher
September 25, 2019
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7 Crazy Stats About Healthcare Claims Denials

2019 stats demonstrating how vast and costly healthcare insurance claims denials are in America. These stats make a strong case for employing a denials management strategy that prevents denials and make working denied claims more efficient.

Bethany Grabher
September 25, 2019