Press Releases

AKASA Named One of the Top Healthcare Technology Companies of 2026

AKASA Appoints Nirav Kamdar, MD, MPP, MBA, to Vice President of Clinical Strategy as AI Revenue Cycle Solutions Gain Momentum With Health Systems

AKASA Earns Great Place To Work Certification for Sixth Consecutive Year

AKASA Recognized by Forbes as One of America’s Best Startup Employers 2026

AKASA Named Best Place To Work by Built In

Report: Health Systems See Promise in Generative AI for Documentation and Revenue Cycle Accuracy But Adoption Gaps Persist

Cleveland Clinic and AKASA Deepen AI Partnership To Modernize the Revenue Cycle

AKASA Ranked #1 Most Promising Healthcare RCM Startup of 2025 by Black Book Research

AKASA Debuts CDI Optimizer, a Generative AI Assistant To Transform Clinical Documentation and Mid-Cycle Performance

Cleveland Clinic and AKASA Announce Strategic Collaboration To Launch AI Tools for the Revenue Cycle

AKASA Recognized as a Top AI-Powered Revenue Cycle Leader by Black Book

AKASA Named Among Fastest Growing Generative AI Startups to Watch

90% of Hospital and Health System Revenue Cycle Leaders Believe GenAI Will Impact Medical Coding Operations

AKASA Earns 2024 Great Place To Work Certification™

AKASA Unveils AKASA Medical Coding for Enhanced Revenue Cycle Management With Generative AI

AKASA Launches Authorization Advisor, First in a Suite of Generative AI Assistants To Optimize Revenue Cycle for Healthcare Providers

74 Percent of Health Systems and Hospitals Have Automation in their Revenue Cycle

70% of Healthcare Providers Actively Considering Use of Generative AI

Errors in Patient Access Such as Eligibility or Missing Prior Authorization Cited as Top Reason for Initial Payer Denials by Financial Leaders

Denials Management Emerges as Area of Focus For Revenue Cycle Automation

Denials Management Requires the Most Subject Matter Expertise in the Revenue Cycle

Denials Management Is the Most Time-Consuming Revenue Cycle Task, Followed by Prior Authorization, According to Healthcare Financial Leaders

64% of Patients Have Never Challenged a Medical Bill, But 78% of Those Who Have Got Disputed Charges Removed or Reduced

AKASA Earns 2023 Great Place to Work Certification™

Half of Patients With High-Deductible Health Plans Have Received a Surprise Medical Bill

Built In Recognizes AKASA as a Best Hybrid Workplace

Nearly 40% of Americans Confused by Medical Bills

AKASA Named One of Quartz’s 2022 Best Companies for Remote Workers

Limited Vendor Support, Lack of Best Practices Hamper ROI Measurement for RCM Automation

Uncertainty of Healthcare Costs Deters 35% of Americans From Seeking Care for Themselves, According to Survey

Survey Finds Majority of Healthcare Consumers Conditioned to Not Shop Around for the Best Price

Survey: Cost-to-Collect Nearly .25% Lower for Hospitals and Health Systems That Leverage Automation in the Revenue Cycle

Fortune and Great Place to Work® Name AKASA One of the 2022 Best Workplaces in Health Care™, Ranking #16

New Survey Highlights What Americans Are Willing to Pay More for in Healthcare

AKASA Achieves HITRUST Certification, Reinforcing Commitment to Healthcare Third-Party Privacy, Security, and Compliance

Survey Finds 36% of Americans Have Researched Healthcare Service Prices, 60% of Those Who Do Would Look to Health Insurance Companies for Pricing

AKASA is named one of the Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ in 2022 by Great Place to Work® and Fortune Magazine, Ranking #66

AKASA Recognized as “Best Place to Work in Healthcare” by Modern Healthcare in 2022

Filling the Gaps: Survey Finds Nearly 60% of Hospitals and Health Systems Have More Than 100 Job Vacancies

AKASA Lands Spot on the Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers 2022 List

Now Hiring: Survey of Healthcare Financial Leaders Highlights Most In-Demand Revenue Cycle Positions

Healthcare And Technology Veterans Join AKASA’s Executive Team

Healthcare Financial Leaders Rank Competitive Talent Market, Vaccine Mandates and Burnout as Biggest Workforce Challenges

Recruitment Costs, Long Hiring Timelines Negatively Impact Healthcare Finance Teams

Survey Identifies Four Key Barriers to Prevent Surprise Medical Bills

AKASA Named to the 2021 CB Insights Digital Health 150 -- List of Most Innovative Digital Health Startups

AKASA Earns 2021 Great Place to Work Certification™

Nearly 80% of Hospitals and Health Systems Track Variation on Clean Claims and Initial Denials Rates

AKASA Ranked as One of the 2021 Best Places to Work in Healthcare

New AKASA Report Highlights Key Benchmarks in Healthcare Revenue Cycle to Increase Productivity

Majority of Health Systems That Leverage Lean Principles Use Automation as Part of Process Improvement

AKASA Announces Accelerated Growth and Expanding Customer Base

Automation in Healthcare Revenue Cycle Operations Jumps from 66% to 78% in Less Than a Year

New AI Approach Exceeds Performance of Traditional Models For Automatic Coding of Medical Notes

Standard Benchmarks for Success in Healthcare Revenue Cycle Operations Are Evolving

77% of Healthcare Financial Leaders Who Have Used Staff Shadowing Say It’s Disruptive and Hurts Productivity

AKASA recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare in 2021

Nearly 75% of Health Systems Report Active Technology Deployments in Revenue Cycle Operations During Pandemic

AKASA Publishes “Annual Report on Revenue Cycle Automation” in Healthcare

AKASA’s AI Technology Lead, Byung-Hak Kim, Ph.D., Presents at the Healthcare Natural Language Processing Summit 2021

AKASA Raises $60 Million in Series B Round

Alpha Health Publishes Comprehensive “Buyer’s Guide to Healthcare Revenue Cycle Automation”

Confusion Between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) High Among Healthcare Leaders

Alpha Health Earns Designation as a Great Place to Work-Certified™ Company in 2020

More Than 60 Percent Of Health Systems That Do Not Currently Use Revenue Cycle Automation Plan To Do So By End of 2021

Adjustment Posting And Billing Edits Are Top Areas Where Automation Is Applied In Healthcare Revenue Cycle Operations

Adjustment Posting And Billing Edits Are Top Areas Where Automation Is Applied In Healthcare Revenue Cycle Operations

More than 66% of Health Systems and Hospitals Use Automation Tools for Revenue Cycle Operations, According to Survey

More Than 90% of Financial Leaders at Health Systems and Hospitals Say Automation Tools Should Be Purpose Built for Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management, According to Survey

75 Percent of Health Systems and Hospitals Will Permanently Change Revenue Cycle Organizations Due to COVID-19, According to Survey

Five Ways COVID-19 is Impacting Revenue Cycle Operations at Health Systems and Hospitals, According to Survey

Alpha Health Named to the 2020 CB Insights Digital Health 150 — List of Most Innovative Digital Health Startups

Alpha Health Predictive AI Research Featured In Spotlight Session at the International Conference on Machine Learning

Alpha Health Announces Series A Funding and Introduces Unified Automation™

70 Percent of Americans Concerned About Cost of COVID-19 Testing and Treatment

More Than 60 Percent of Americans Will Wait Between One Month To More Than Six Months After Shelter-In-Place Orders Lifted To Seek Routine Healthcare, According to Survey

30% of Hospitals and Health Systems Using Revenue Cycle Automation Require Two or More Vendors to Manage The Process