Conifer Health Solutions® Realigns Revenue Cycle Management Organization | Business Wire

FRISCO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Conifer Health Solutions®, the nation’s largest provider of technology

enabled healthcare performance improvement services, is realigning its Revenue

Cycle Management (RCM) organization. Conifer’s RCM restructure is

planned to help hospitals and health systems meet the mandates of

healthcare reform: achieving increased efficiencies through improved

quality and patient safety, better management of care, and reducing cost

structures. Regulatory realities such as ICD-10 implementation,

meaningful use criteria and ongoing scrutiny of the two-midnight rule

are also fueling client demand for innovative solutions to improve

financial performance.

“Healthcare providers continue to seek a single, trusted partner to

deliver solutions to help their organizations thrive as the industry

transforms,” said Stephen M. Mooney, president and CEO of Conifer Health

Solutions. “Restructuring Conifer’s Revenue Cycle Management operation

allows us to be more flexible and client-focused and puts us in a better

position to bring agility and scale to quickly meet our clients’ most

pressing challenges.”

Conifer today manages more than $25 billion in net patient revenue for

some of the largest providers in the country. The healthcare services

company has seen a sharp uptick in client demand for more nimble,

market-centric solutions to ease potential disruptive impacts to revenue

cycle operations such as value-based reimbursed models and increased

financial obligations from patients, among others.

As part of the realignment, Matthew

C. Michaels will assume the role of president of Hospital RCM.

Michaels is a 13-year veteran of the healthcare industry; he served as

Conifer’s senior vice president of Client Services for RCM prior to this

new position.

Conifer’s Patient

Communications & Engagement (PC&E) business unit will become

part of the Hospital RCM organization. Dorothy Rubio is promoted to the

newly created position of senior vice president of Patient Services to

lead the organization, which will now include Scheduling, Medical

Eligibility and Counseling Services (MECS) and Patient Access. “This

more tightly integrated RCM organization will also help us lay the

groundwork for services and solutions to create a more holistic

consumer-patient experience,” added Mooney.

Paula Lawlor, who previously served as vice president of Hospital

Operations is promoted to the new position of senior vice president of

Clinical Revenue Integrity, which will include Health Information

Management (HIM), Revenue Integrity and Clinical Documentation

Improvement. Janie Patterson will continue in her position as senior

vice president of Accounts Receivable Management, a role to which she

brings twenty-five years of healthcare industry experience.

Rubio, Lawlor and Patterson will report to Michaels.

[Editor’s Note: Contact Sharon Lakes at sharon.lakes@coniferhealth.com

for hi-res photographs of personnel named above.]

About Conifer Health Solutions

Conifer Health Solutions is a healthcare services company helping more

than 700 clients strengthen their financial performance, transition from

volume to value-based care and enhance the consumer and patient

healthcare experience, with the goal of improving quality and access to

healthcare, while controlling costs. Conifer Health has more than 19

million patient interactions across all service lines, manages more than

$25 billion in patient revenue and $17 billion in medically managed

spend; and provides technology and health management services to support

care management for more than 4 million lives, annually. For more

information, visit coniferhealth.com or follow @coniferhealth on Twitter.

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