University of Louisville Hospital Selects Conifer Health for Comprehensive Revenue Cycle Management Solutions
July 13 2017 - 11:30AM
Business Wire
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Conifer Health Solutions today announced a comprehensive
hospital revenue cycle management (RCM) agreement with University
Medical Center Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky. Under the
multi-year agreement, Conifer Health will provide University of
Louisville Hospital and the James Graham Brown Cancer Center an
end-to-end revenue cycle solution, including patient access,
enrollment and eligibility, clinical documentation improvement,
health information management and accounts receivable management
services.
University of Louisville Hospital and the James Graham Brown
Cancer Center selected Conifer Health for its deep expertise as a
single-source RCM provider that delivers value to hospital and
health system clients through better business outcomes, including
optimized revenue cycle operations and improved clinical and
financial performance. The relationship aims to enable University
of Louisville Hospital and the James Graham Brown Cancer Center to
focus on achieving safe, high-quality, cost-effective care that
will continue to grow. It also enables patients to more easily
engage with and navigate a care and payment path that benefits them
and the care delivery organization as a whole.
“University of Louisville Hospital and the James Graham Brown
Cancer Center are proud to continue our successful relationship
with Conifer Health,” said Ken Marshall, interim president and CEO
of University Medical Center. “Conifer Health’s extensive
capabilities and understanding of our unique market challenges have
helped us evaluate and optimize our end-to-end RCM solutions to
keep pace with advances in an ever-changing competitive healthcare
environment.”
Hospital and health systems are increasingly challenged to adapt
to healthcare market demands. To achieve or retain their
competitive advantage, healthcare decision-makers must make key
changes in care delivery models to improve cost, quality and
access. Conifer Health’s RCM services allow innovative provider
organizations, such as University of Louisville Hospital and the
James Graham Brown Cancer Center, to enhance their overall
performance by accelerating cash flow, improving clinical
documentation, speeding account resolution and boosting patient
satisfaction.
“We’re pleased to extend our relationship with University of
Louisville Hospital and the James Graham Brown Cancer Center,”
said Stephen M. Mooney, president and CEO of Conifer Health.
“As healthcare providers face significant local market pressures,
complexities and regulatory challenges, they need a partner that
can help them deliver better outcomes at a lower cost while
improving the patient experience and overall access to care. We
look forward to further demonstrating our continued commitment to
revenue cycle excellence.”
About Conifer Health Solutions
Conifer Health Solutions brings 30 years of healthcare industry
expertise to clients in more than 135 local regions nationwide to
help strengthen their financial and clinical performance. Conifer
Health helps organizations transition from volume to value-based
care, enhance the consumer and patient healthcare experience and
improve quality, cost and access to healthcare. Annually, the
company manages more than 24 million unique patient interactions,
more than $29 billion in net patient revenue and more than $22
billion in medically managed spend. Conifer Health also provides
technology and health management services to support care
management for nearly 6 million lives. For more information, visit
ConiferHealth.com or follow @ConiferHealth on Twitter.
About University Medical Center
Incorporated in 1995 and based in Louisville, Kentucky,
University Medical Center Inc. operates as a non-profit affiliate
of the University of Louisville. Under the leadership of president
and CEO Ken Marshall, UMC provides management and oversight of the
UofL Health Sciences Center’s primary adult teaching hospital and
cancer center. University of Louisville Hospital traces its origins
to 1817 and today is a 404-bed facility with the region’s only
adult Level 1 trauma center, Kentucky’s first certified stroke
center and first hospital-based telemedicine network. Aligned with
the hospital, the James Graham Brown Cancer Center offers the
area’s most advanced cancer treatment with specialists and
researchers working in multidisciplinary teams and is home to the
first nationally accredited breast center in Kentucky and the first
nationally accredited radiation oncology program in Louisville.
More than 800 physicians and 2,300 nurses and other staff provide
care at the two facilities, located adjacent to one another in the
heart of Louisville’s medical center on Jackson Street between East
Chestnut and East Muhammad Ali. To learn more, visit the UofL
Hospital and Brown Cancer Center websites.
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