Author: Sanjay Siddhanti Our quarterly hackathon is one of my favorite parts of the AKASA engineering culture. We’ve successfully run two hackathons during the pandemic. Why do a hackathon? Hackathons are one of the best ways to encourage innovation within a company.…
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ELEVATING OUR BUSINESS & OUR BRAND
We have exciting company news to share. First, we have raised a $60 million Series B round, led by BOND, and joined by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Costanoa Ventures and other existing investors. Noah Knauf, general partner at BOND, is joining our Board.…
IAM Management as Code
WHO WE ARE At AKASA we believe every dollar spent on healthcare matters, because healthcare matters to everyone. Our mission is to remedy the financial complexity which is crippling healthcare in America. Inspired by the machine learning approaches that made driverless cars…
How to Address the Challenges of Eligibility Denials
Author: Christian Carlson Real-time eligibility (RTE), patient eligibility verification that allows medical staff to electronically verify patients’ insurance coverage for medical treatment, and other electronic verification methods are widely available. These technologies return of-the-moment answers about medical coverage from Medicare, Medicaid and…
Considerations for Successfully Leveraging AI and the Cloud – AKASA and AWS webinar
Author: AKASA On October 20, 2020 AKASA hosted a discussion with AWS exploring the benefits of machine learning and Cloud computing for health care revenue cycle operations. There are few technologies that have been so quickly adopted as cloud computing and artificial…
Automating Denials is a Bit Like Mapping the Stars
Author: Grant Messick The earliest Western catalog of the stars was created by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus, building on earlier work going back to the Babylonians. Automation for revenue cycle operations is still a relatively early and evolving field and solution…
Evolution of Revenue Cycle Management – How Automation Can Help Get to Payment Faster
Author: AKASA The U.S. healthcare system has seen rapid, technology-driven changes in revenue cycle management (RCM) over the last two years and AKASA sought to bring clarity to RCM’s evolution and its relationship with artificial intelligence (AI) and other automation tools…
What can ‘The Office’ teach us about the US Healthcare System
Author: Daniel Vachoo, Director, Customer Success Like most Americans who are sheltering at home during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, I’ve been spending more of my life online. It’s no surprise that video streaming services such as Netflix have seen a 16%…
How Automation Can Address the Challenges of Prior Authorization
Author: Braden Decker The original concept of the prior authorization process was well intentioned. Health plans are able to look across the continuum of care being provided to a patient and make determinations whether a single request for care is medically…
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