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Building the Revenue Cycle Platform the RCM Industry Wished Existed — From 8 Clients to 25 Without Adding Staff

Key Outcome
8 → 25
clients served without adding consulting staff
Team
18 engineers
Timeline
20 weeks
Industry
Healthcare
01The Situation

A healthcare revenue cycle management company serving small-to-medium sized hospitals — the segment where operating margins are thinnest. They had the domain expertise — former hospital CFOs, revenue cycle directors, charge capture specialists — but their technology was a patchwork of Excel models, manual data pulls from client EMRs, and quarterly reports that told hospitals what they already knew: they were losing money.

02What Changed

Their assessment methodology was sound — they consistently identified $3-5M in annual revenue improvement opportunities per client. But execution depended entirely on consultants being on-site to implement changes. They couldn't scale beyond 8 clients simultaneously because they didn't have enough consultants. And every time a consultant left, their methodology knowledge walked out the door.

03Why The Algorithm

They needed to turn their consulting methodology into a technology platform — codify what their experts did manually into software that could execute at scale.

04What We Built

Cloud-based RCM intelligence and execution platform. Automated assessment engine connecting to client EMR and billing systems — identifying revenue leakage patterns automatically using rule engines built from the company's proprietary methodology. Real-time monitoring dashboards for client hospital leadership. Charge capture optimization — alerts for missed charges before the billing window closes. Denial management workflow with automated categorization, pattern identification, and appeal template generation. EMR conversion support tooling for hospitals transitioning systems.

05 — The Result

The company went from serving 8 clients to 25 without adding consulting staff — the platform did what consultants used to do manually. Operating margin improvement for clients consistently exceeded 5% of net revenues. Assessment time reduced from 8 weeks (manual) to 2 weeks (automated). Every assessment client converted to a multi-year engagement because the platform delivered results that manual consulting couldn't match at scale.

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