PE Firms Target Revenue Cycle Management

Follow the money. Everywhere in health care today, controlling the flow of revenue is critical to success, from physician practices to hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and more. As critical as it is, revenue cycle management took a back seat to electronic medical records in recent years, as CMS enforced the early stages of Meaningful Use to get physician practices on board with EMRs. Now that the switch to the ICD-10 coding system is firmly in place, investors’ attention has turned back to revenue cycle management (RCM). In just the first four months of 2016, nine RCM companies have been acquired, surpassing 2014’s total of eight RCM deals, and putting this year on track to beat... Read More »