Revenue Cycle Archives - Sift Healthcare

Marketing View: The Best AI in Your Revenue Cycle Should Be Invisible

Bad AI in your revenue cycle announces itself, like bad CGI. The AI that you never notice is the good stuff. Here's the difference.

July 20, 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

AI in the Revenue Cycle: A Priority, But…

AI in the revenue cycle isn’t at a tipping point; it’s a sticking point. Revenue cycle leaders at health systems across the country are being given AI mandates. At Sift, we’ve heard from multiple revenue cycle leaders that their CEOs...

May 26, 2026

CEO Perspectives: Why the Revenue Cycle Industry Isn’t Designed to Fix the Revenue Cycle

Denials are unequivocally one of the biggest problems for US health systems. But across the revenue cycle industry, most technology companies and outsourcing firms are not economically incentivized to solve the denial problem. They’re incentivized to make it manageable.

May 15, 2026

EHR Denials Management Limitations

Your EHR vendor probably told you it covers denials management, maybe even using AI. In a narrow sense, it does. EHRs capture and queue denials, and, if you’ve got the right module configured and an analyst who knows how to build the reports, it’ll show you denial trends by payer. But what EHR denials management tools won’t...

May 13, 2026

How to Know if a Denial Cluster is Worth Automating with an AI Agent

Agentic AI is being hailed across the revenue cycle right now, for appeals, claim resubmissions, documentation retrieval and a slew of other workflows. For the most part, the use cases make sense on paper. But many health system revenue cycle teams are making deployment decisions based on...

April 30, 2026

Score First, Outsource Second: Why A/R Scoring is the Smarter Path to RCM Vendor ROI

Dollar value and recovery probability are not the same thing. Health systems that outsource without scoring first are paying contingency fees on claims they could have kept.

April 22, 2026

Solving Revenue Cycle Bottlenecks with AI Copilots

AI copilots enhance CDI by connecting clinical and financial data, improving claim accuracy, reducing denials, and optimizing automation in revenue cycle management.

March 3, 2025

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

Introducing the Solventum Revenue Integrity System

Introducing the Solventum Revenue Integrity System from Sift and Solventum. This AI-driven solution unifies clinical and payments data, predicts and prevents clinical denials and optimizes revenue cycle management.

June 24, 2024

Justin Nicols

Founder & CEO
A leading industry expert in data analytics technology and has an extensive background in corporate finance and investment banking. Prior to founding Sift, Justin served on the executive team of venture backed ad technology company, and an e-commerce technology company.