Accretive Health, Inc. partners with hospitals and other healthcare providers to manage their operations more effectively so they are able to keep their doors open and serve their communities.

Accretive Health assists hospitals in overcoming these challenges through three primary services. The company’s largest service is Revenue Cycle Management, which works with hospitals to securely manage patient registration and billing processes so that private insurance, government payers and other third parties and individuals pay the correct amount due. Accretive Health’s Quality and Total Cost of Care service helps hospitals provide integrated and more intensive care to high-risk patients who generate most hospital stays and costs. Finally, Accretive Health’s Physician Advisory Services (PAS) assist hospitals by providing them with recommendations regarding the proper classification of patients for billing compliance purposes.

Through its advocacy, Accretive Health has helped more than 250,000 formerly uninsured patients obtain coverage for their care.

Accretive Health Earns Industry-Leading HITRUST Certification for Data Security & Private Patient Health Information Protection

by Accretive Health March 19, 2013 (Be the first to respond)

Accretive Health, Inc. (NYSE: AH) announced this morning that it has achieved from the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) Common Security Framework (CSF) Certified status. This status assures that Accretive Health is meeting the health care industry’s highest standards in managing risk and protecting health information. Achieving HITRUST CSF Certified status from HITRUST is vital as electronic health record-sharing expands.

“HITRUST has been working with the industry to ensure the appropriate information protection requirements are met when sensitive health information is accessed, used and stored,” said Kenneth Vander Wal, Chief Compliance Officer of HITRUST. “We are pleased that Accretive Health has taken the steps necessary to achieve HITRUST CSF Certified status, and we expect its customers to have confidence in this designation.”

Accretive Health Partners with Salem Health to Serve Patients in the Pacific Northwest

by Accretive Health March 12, 2013 (Be the first to respond)

Accretive Health, Inc. (NYSE: AH) today announced a multi-year strategic relationship to improve revenue cycle operations at Salem Health, a multi-hospital system in Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley. This relationship will enable Salem Health to leverage Accretive Health’s distinctive operating model, including its rigorous processes and proprietary technology, to improve revenue yield and enhance patient satisfaction across Salem Health’s network of facilities. By partnering with one of the largest of Oregon’s 58 acute care hospitals, the relationship also broadens Accretive Health’s strategy and reach in the Pacific Northwest.

The relationship is the first revenue cycle client for Accretive Health in the Oregon and expands the company’s service to patients in Pacific Northwest.

Accretive Health Fact Sheet Details End-to-End Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management Solutions

by Accretive Health February 5, 2013 (Be the first to respond)

Accretive Health today released a fact sheet detailing its solutions to overcome the array of obstacles standing in the way of hospitals’ efforts to control operating costs while simultaneously providing high quality care to the patient populations they serve.

From financial pressures, increasing legislative and regulatory pressures, technology and staff limitations, and investment risks—these impediments can severely limit a hospital’s ability to balance quality patient care with the cost of providing it.

Accretive Health CEO Mary Tolan: Healthcare Costs are This Generation’s Cold War

by Accretive Health February 1, 2013 (Be the first to respond)

In a recent video interview with the Wall Street Journal’s Dennis Berman, Accretive Health CEO Mary Tolan discusses the future of our nation’s healthcare system and the challenges hospitals and physicians face in balancing the delivery of quality care and the costs associated with providing it.

Ms. Tolan was in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013.

In the interview, Mr. Berman asks Ms. Tolan why she thinks 2013 is different from decade’s past on the question of controlling healthcare costs. According to Tolan, “The promising thing that’s really happening right now, Dennis, is that incentives are shifting. And for the first time we’re really giving providers accountability and incentives for managing patient care in its entirety….And once we change incentives we have the beginning of new possibilities.”

Accretive Health Finds Insurance for the Uninsured, Boosts Cash Received for Chicago Hospital

by Accretive Health January 28, 2013 1 Response

In a new case study, Saint Anthony Hospital details the challenges it faced in the often risky world of revenue cycle management for an independent community hospital. By forming a key partnership with Accretive Health, however, Saint Anthony was able to overcome many of those challenges with a solid business partner and patient advocate.

“Saint Anthony Hospital needed a revenue cycle partner that would help them advocate for their uninsured patients as well as deliver results through improved processes.”

Accretive Health Champions Reducing Healthcare Provider Inefficiencies and Improving Patient Outcomes

by Accretive Health January 22, 2013 (Be the first to respond)

In a new downloadable Fact Sheet from Accretive Health, learn how, as a business process ally, Accretive Health is helping hospitals meet the challenge of improving the patient experience by weeding out inefficiencies and streamlining processes that contribute to lowering provider costs and improving health outcomes for patients. In order to solve the fundamental problems of quality [...]

Fact Sheet: Reducing Provider Inefficiencies and Improving Patient Outcomes