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Hospitals & Integrated Health Systems

Health systems face a revenue cycle too complex to manage at scale with internal resources alone. ADEC Healthcare embeds clinical coders, CDI specialists, and denial management teams directly into your operation, without adding to your headcount.

Overview

How ADEC Healthcare serves Hospitals & Integrated Health Systems

Hospitals and integrated health systems operate revenue cycles of extraordinary complexity. A single health system may manage hundreds of employed physicians, multiple acute care facilities, outpatient clinics, surgical centers, and post-acute care settings simultaneously, each with its own payer mix, coding requirements, and revenue integrity challenges. The scale of that complexity makes the revenue cycle both the largest operational cost center and the largest source of recoverable revenue in the organization. ADEC Healthcare provides the operational depth that health systems need to manage that complexity without proportional growth in administrative headcount. Our teams support high-volume inpatient and outpatient coding across multiple service lines, clinical documentation improvement programs that capture the true severity of illness in physician documentation, clinical denial management that recovers revenue before it is written off, revenue integrity audits that close gaps between charge capture and billing, and health information management operations that keep records accurate and audit-ready. We work as an extension of your revenue integrity and HIM teams, not a replacement for them. ADEC Healthcare brings the specialist expertise and surge capacity that health system revenue cycle departments need to perform consistently at scale, whether that means filling coder vacancies, building a CDI program from the ground up, or taking on a backlog of clinical denials that has been accumulating for months.

Challenges we solve

What we hear from Hospitals & Integrated Health Systems

Coder shortages and surge capacity gaps in high-volume facilities
CDI programs not capturing CC/MCC at optimal rates
Clinical denial volumes overwhelming the appeals team
Revenue integrity gaps between charge capture and billing
Physician documentation habits that consistently result in DRG downgrades and lower case mix index
Managing revenue cycle performance across multiple facilities with different EHR systems and workflows
Inpatient denial volumes from commercial payers challenging medical necessity and level of care decisions
Charge capture gaps in high-volume service lines including surgery, cardiology, and oncology
Keeping coding staff current with annual ICD-10 updates and payer-specific coding guidelines
HIM backlogs creating delays in claim submission and audit response timelines
Balancing revenue cycle performance with quality reporting requirements that use the same clinical documentation
2.1x Avg. CMI improvement
68% Denial overturn rate
Why ADEC Healthcare

What makes us different for Hospitals & Integrated Health Systems

Health systems need a revenue cycle partner who can operate at enterprise scale without sacrificing the clinical nuance that accurate coding and documentation require. ADEC Healthcare brings both. Our inpatient coders are credentialed with RHIA and CCS certifications and have experience across DRG-based reimbursement, MS-DRG optimization, and the CC and MCC capture that drives case mix improvement. Our CDI specialists work directly with physicians to close the documentation gaps that result in DRG downgrades and quality score impacts. Our clinical denial management teams build peer-to-peer arguments and written appeals that address the specific InterQual and Milliman criteria payers use to deny inpatient admissions and level of care decisions. We do not apply a one-size-fits-all approach to health system revenue cycle support. We build engagements around the specific gaps in your operation and the performance outcomes your leadership team is accountable for.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions from Hospitals & Integrated Health Systems

Hospitals and health systems most commonly outsource inpatient and outpatient medical coding, clinical documentation improvement, clinical denial management, revenue integrity auditing, and health information management. ADEC Healthcare provides all of these with credentialed staff who have direct acute care experience and understand the coding, documentation, and compliance requirements specific to hospital and health system revenue cycle operations.
Clinical documentation improvement programs work with physicians to ensure that documentation accurately reflects the severity and complexity of each patient encounter. When documentation is incomplete or imprecise, hospitals are reimbursed at lower DRG rates that do not reflect the resources consumed in delivering care. ADEC Healthcare CDI specialists identify documentation gaps, generate physician queries, and track query response rates and case mix impact to demonstrate the financial return of the CDI program.
Reducing clinical denial rates requires a combination of strong concurrent utilization review, accurate medical necessity documentation, and an aggressive appeals process for denied claims. ADEC Healthcare manages clinical denial appeals for hospitals and health systems, building peer-to-peer requests and written arguments that address the InterQual and Milliman criteria commercial payers use to deny inpatient admissions, observation status decisions, and level of care determinations.
Revenue integrity is the discipline of ensuring that every service delivered by a hospital is accurately documented, coded, and billed in compliance with payer requirements. Gaps in charge capture, coding errors, and documentation deficiencies all reduce net revenue and create compliance exposure. ADEC Healthcare conducts revenue integrity audits across hospital service lines to identify where revenue is leaking and implement the operational changes needed to recover it.
ADEC Healthcare provides health information management support including medical record coding, coding quality audits, release of information management, and HIM staffing augmentation during vacancy and volume surge periods. Our HIM teams are credentialed and experienced in acute care documentation and coding standards, and work within your existing HIM workflows and quality review processes to maintain the accuracy and compliance your organization requires.

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Our teams manage verification, submission, and payer follow-up to streamline approvals and secure timely reimbursement.

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ADEC Healthcare delivers precise, compliant coding that ensures accurate reimbursement and clear reporting across all specialties.

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ADEC Healthcare delivers precise, compliant coding that ensures accurate reimbursement and clear reporting across all specialties.

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Our specialists identify root causes of denials, resolve issues quickly, and build preventive processes that protect future revenue.

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We unify documentation, coding, and billing workflows to eliminate revenue leakage and improve financial transparency.

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