AH Accretive Health Inc. is a stock and company long term investors should keep an eye on.
Accretive Health is a leading provider of services that help healthcare providers generate sustainable improvements in their operating margins and healthcare quality while also improving patient, physician and staff satisfaction. There core service offering in revenue cycle management services helps U.S. healthcare providers efficiently manage their revenue cycles, which encompass patient registration, insurance and benefit verification, medical treatment documentation and coding, bill preparation and collections. Through the implementation of there distinctive operating model, customers realize sustainable improvements in the capture of fund contractually owed to them which translates to improved operating margins, and improve the satisfaction of their patients, physicians and staff. There quality and total cost of care service offering that was introduced in 2010, enables healthcare providers to effectively manage the health of a defined patient population, which they believe is a future direction of the manner in which healthcare services will be delivered in the United States. There physician advisory services, or Accretive PAS, is focuses on assisting hospitals maximize their compliant revenue associated with emergency room visits and similar patient classification issues.
Accretive Health customers typically are multi-hospital systems, including faith-based or community healthcare systems, academic medical centers and independent ambulatory clinics, and their affiliated physician practice groups. They seek to develop strategic, long-term relationships with there customers and focus on providers that they believe understand the value of there operating model and have demonstrated success in both clinical and operational outcomes.
