One Third of Healthcare Providers Plan to Restructure to Ensure Business Continuity and Increase Permanent Work-from-Home Capabilities Post-Pandemic
Alpha Health, the first Unified Automation™ company for revenue cycle management in healthcare, released results of a national survey designed to assess the impact of COVID-19 on revenue cycle operations at health systems and hospitals across the U.S. Results demonstrate the majority of organizations intend to restructure their revenue cycle operations in response to shifting business dynamics driven by the pandemic.
The survey was commissioned by Alpha Health and conducted through the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s (HFMA) Pulse Survey program. The survey was fielded between May 19, 2020 and June 22, 2020 among 587 chief financial officers and revenue cycle leaders at hospitals and health systems across the United States. The survey has a confidence level of 95 percent with a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percent.
“COVID-19 has placed healthcare organizations under tremendous financial pressure, driving a need for increased efficiency and cost restructuring. At the same time, revenue cycle teams are facing unpredictable and volatile workloads,” said Malinka Walaliyadde, co-founder and CEO of Alpha Health. “These dynamics are leading more organizations to adopt work-from-home practices permanently and to embrace automation to make their revenue cycle operations more resilient and flexible.”
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According to the survey, larger healthcare providers with $1B – $10B net patient revenues; organizations that have experience with or currently use automation; and health systems (versus hospitals) are statistically more likely to restructure their revenue cycle operations to increase permanent work-from-home staffing post-pandemic.
Survey respondents were asked, “Based on how COVID-19 has impacted your organization, do you expect to permanently change the structure of your revenue cycle organization?”
Source: Prnews Wire