Hospitals are facing one of the most persistent paradoxes in modern healthcare finance: revenue pressure is rising, but the resources to address it are shrinking. Margins remain thin. Labor costs are still elevated. Denial volumes are climbing. Payers are becoming...
Denials aren’t just a revenue-cycle nuisance. They’re a hidden profit-and-loss line item and when they go unworked, hospitals quietly donate earned reimbursement back to payers. That “donation” is growing. Benchmarking and survey data continue to show denial pressure...
