Blog Security The Hidden Costs of Outsourcing Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management Carley Thornell is a former Industry Marketing Strategist for Healthcare and Life Sciences at Akamai. She has a deep background in thought leadership in the technology space, including leading the content strategy and research team at one of the country’s leading electronic health records systems. Every healthcare organization has to prioritize both clinical and financial outcomes. Increasingly, one way in which they’re doing so is by outsourcing healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM). \r\n Healthcare RCM requires orchestration between payers, provider groups, patients, and — much more frequently today — third-party vendors. There are often whole departments within medical groups dedicated to handling invoices, claims, denials, and collections — and the library of ICD-10 codes and their varying reimbursement rates continues to expand.…