Healthcare Payments Archives - Sift Healthcare

Category: Healthcare Payments

Hidden Denials Your Reports Miss: Aetna Medicare Underpayments

Underpayments erode hospital revenue, but don't show as denials in standard denial reporting. Aetna Medicare underpayments is a pattern the Sift team is tracking right now. Here's how your hospital can track this payer pattern that creates hidden denials.

July 23, 2026

CEO Perspectives: Hospitals Think They’re Maximizing Revenue. They’re Only Measuring Half Of It.

CDI programs track revenue captured, not what the payer actually lets a health system keep. Sift's CEO, Justin Nicols on the measurement gap that erases net revenue and why CDI vendors don't flag it.

July 17, 2026

How Real-Time Clinical Data Is Revolutionizing Payer Reimbursement

How real-time clinical data is transforming insurance payer reimbursement, reducing claim denials, and streamlining healthcare revenue cycle management.

January 28, 2025

Announcing Sift’s Series A Funding

Today is an exciting milestone for Sift as we’re proud to announce the completion of Sift Healthcare’s $9 million Series A fundraising round, led by Allos Ventures and First Trust Capital Partners. Funding supports the accelerating sales of our denials...

July 15, 2022

AI, Technology & Compassion. Give it a listen.

Sift's Blake Sollenberger and Affinity Strategies' Claire Vincent talk about the impact of AI on healthcare payments. They cover the challenges health systems face as they increasingly act as financial lenders, the importance of a positive patient experience in billing,...

June 29, 2022

5 Ways Machine Learning and RPA Work Together In The Revenue Cycle

Machine Learning makes RPA more effective in the revenue cycle. Being able to truly leverage payments data to drive decision-making makes automation efforts meaningful. ML enables RPA efforts to move from automating repetitive human processes to attacking the root causes...

June 3, 2021

Fintech Meets Medtech To Improve Healthcare Payments

Wonder how Sift impacts healthcare? Watch Sift Healthcare's Founder and CEO, Justin Nicols talk with StartUp Health's Logan Plaster about the impact of Sift's AI and analytics on healthcare payments.

April 13, 2021

Healthcare Providers Have Become Lending Organizations

Every day healthcare providers are extending credit in the form of care, and they have little idea whether, how much or when they will be paid. It’s time for healthcare providers to start deploying well-established data science and analytics tools...

October 2, 2020

6 Ways To Use Your Healthcare Payments Data To Improve Collections

AI, machine learning and predictive models are abstract terms in the revenue cycle. How do you actually move past the buzzwords and get value out of your healthcare payments data? Here are six ways healthcare providers and RCMs can truly...

May 20, 2020

Want To Control Your Cost To Collect & Utilization? You Need A Holistic View Of Your Healthcare Payments.

Every healthcare CFO and revenue cycle leader should be looking at their insurance payer payments in relation to patient payments -- identifying how they relate and influence one another. This is essential intelligence in an ever-complex revenue cycle.

February 3, 2020