We're excited to welcome Ralph Perfetto to the Sift Healthcare team as our Chief Operating Officer. With 25+ years in healthcare product innovation and advanced analytics, Ralph brings exceptional experience, from founding health tech companies to leading enterprise data science teams at Zelis, HMS/Eliza, and Optum. At Sift, Ralph will oversee the execution of strategic priorities in Product, #DataScience, and Technology. His expertise in scaling operations and driving revenue growth across healthcare and tech sectors will be instrumental as we continue developing our actionability engine, turning #ML predictions into meaningful workflow solutions for health systems. Join us in welcoming Ralph!
Sift Healthcare
Hospitals and Health Care
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 12,836 followers
Sift transforms healthcare payments through advanced data science.
About us
Sift equips healthcare providers and revenue cycle managers with a complete payments analytics platform making it easy to visualize and understand payment trends, prioritize RCM workflows and accelerate cash flow. Sift improves data clarity and optimizes the financial performance of the entire revenue cycle continuum. Meaningful insights help reduce denials, increase patient payments, maximize reimbursements and reduce time and cost to collect. Revenue Cycle Optimization Solutions • Data Visualization Tools - Denials Dashbaord & Payments Dashbaord • AI-Driven Denials Management and Payment Management • C-Suite Intelligence Tools
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- Industry
- Hospitals and Health Care
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2017
- Specialties
- Revenue Cycle Analytics, Predictive Analytics, AI, RCM Performance, Denials Management Optimization, Contract Management Performance, Claims Workflow Intelligence, Patient Financial Intelligence, RCM Operations, Payment Plan Analytics, healthcare payments, Healthcare Intelligence, Data Visualization, and Propensity To Pay
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202, US
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Updates
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We’re honored to be featured in the Elion AI Denials Management Market Map, highlighting key players transforming revenue cycle management. At Sift, we’re committed to leveraging #AI to enhance payment confidence and streamline denials management, helping health systems prevent denials and accelerating payer reimbursement.
Some quick stats: • 15% of claims to private payers are denied. • The cost to rework or appeal a denied claim is $25 for practices and $181 for hospitals. • 65% of denied claims are never re-submitted. • As a result, 35% of hospitals report at least $50M in annual lost revenue from denied claims (not including lost revenue from underpayment). In short, vendors who can solve this pain point have a huge opportunity. This week we updated our denials management market map to breakdown where this rapidly evolving category is today, including how products are differentiating across denials workflows. See the full report from Patrick W. here: https://lnkd.in/eqrXvaYy
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What if we stopped accepting denials as inevitable, and started treating *payment confidence* as the new performance metric? #Revenuecycle teams have long relied on denials as a rearview mirror. Useful, but reactive. At Sift, we help health systems move to being proactive in their denials approach. This means intelligence around the likelihood a claim will get paid (clean, timely, and in full) before it’s even submitted. This kind of payment confidence has the potential to reshape how healthcare providers prioritize claims, allocate staff, identify process breakdowns and reduce rework. Payment confidence is more than a mindset shift; it’s an operational one. And we’re building the tools to make it actionable. Curious how health systems are approaching this. Join the conversation with Sift's VP of Growth, Dominic Foscato.
We talk a lot about denials as a lagging indicator. But what if we treated payment confidence as a leading one? More providers are asking me, “How confident are we that this claim will get paid - before it’s submitted? It’s a mindset shift, but one that could fundamentally reshape how we staff, prioritize, and fix revenue cycle pain points at the source. Curious who’s exploring this and how it’s going.
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According to a new report from the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI), ambient #AI documentation tools are being adopted faster than any other tech in healthcare, driven by the burnout crisis and workforce shortages. And the early results are notable: -Mass General Brigham reported a 40% drop in clinician burnout -MultiCare Health System saw a 63% drop The impact of this kind of AI on physician load is hard to ignore. It’s a clear signal that workflow-focused AI has a meaningful role to play in health system operations. https://lnkd.in/gGPs56ut
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Market projections have RCM tech landing anywhere from $343B to nearly $900B globally by 2032. What's key is that #revenuecycle leaders aren’t just buying automation — they’re buying results. Solutions that lack measurable ROI, interoperability, or clinical-financial alignment aren’t making the cut. Health systems are looking for partners that can embed (useful) #AI into workflows and deliver real revenue impact. https://lnkd.in/gwa3MsYH
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Innovation in the #revenuecycle (and more broadly, in healthcare finance) isn’t just about adopting the latest tech—it’s about rethinking entrenched challenges. Heather Dunn, MBA, CHFP, EHRC, CRCR captures exactly what it means to be a disruptor in this space: AI-powered claims analysis, proactive cybersecurity strategies, and payer transparency tools are reshaping the landscape. But as she points out, the real challenge isn’t just implementation—it’s ensuring adoption, compliance, and *meaningful impact* in a highly regulated environment. https://lnkd.in/gmuSkSQ8
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Sift's 2024 Denials Insights Report is live. This very comprehensive report breaks down the biggest reimbursement trends impacting health systems—payer delay tactics, the rise in takebacks, and hidden clinical denials. #HIMSS #revenuecycle #hfma
Denials are getting harder to track, harder to fight, and harder to prevent. Payers are using delay tactics, increasing takebacks, and clinical denials (which can be nearly invisible in financial systems). Health systems can’t afford to play catch-up anymore—AI and advanced analytics are the key to staying ahead. Sift just released our 2024 Denials Insights Report, breaking down the biggest trends shaping payer reimbursement this year. I wrote about the key takeaways here:
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The financial impact of claim denials is more unpredictable than ever. Payer tactics are evolving, takebacks are surging, and clinical denials are creating hidden revenue leakage. Sift's denials experts leverage #AI to analyze millions of claims and remittance records to uncover the real trends behind denials. Our 2024 Denials Insights Report highlights the most impactful denial trends from last year, including: 🔹 Emerging payer delay tactics that extend AR days and impact cash flow 🔹 The Change Healthcare data breach's impact on payment turnaround times 🔹 200% increase in payer takebacks—and what providers can do to fight back 🔹 Clinical denials that never show up in financial systems—leading to massive hidden revenue loss Download the full report to see what drove revenue cycle challenges in 2024—and how health systems can better respond in 2025. https://lnkd.in/gzWraBDA #RevenueCycle #DenialsManagement #RCM #HIMSS
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As denial rates continue to rise, health systems need better, not just more, automation to reduce administrative burden and improve payment outcomes. Sift's CEO, Justin Nicols, shares how #AI copilots can transform CDI workflows by connecting clinical and financial data, helping teams focus on quality, efficiency, and high-value cases. #revenuecyclemanagement #revenuecycle
Denials continue to be a major challenge for health systems, driving unnecessary administrative burden and lost revenue. While #automation has helped, its effectiveness has been limited by rigid, rules-based systems that struggle with real-world complexity. AI copilots represent a more intelligent approach—one that connects clinical and financial data to drive strategic automation, reduce denials, and help CDI specialists focus on higher-value cases and documentation quality. #HIMSS #revenuecycle #agenticworkflows
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Denials management isn’t just about lost revenue—it’s about preventing revenue leakage before it happens. Our partners at Solventum break down why traditional reactive approaches are no longer enough and how proactive denials management is transforming revenue cycle resilience. By integrating denials intelligence across CDI, coding, and #revenuecycle teams, health systems can eliminate root causes, reduce compliance risks, and strengthen financial performance. This shift from chasing denials to preventing them at the source is critical as financial pressures on healthcare organizations continue to mount. https://lnkd.in/gsge_beV #CDI #HIMSS
Explore how a proactive and unified denials management approach can support revenue integrity. Get the details on Inside Angle. #insideangleblog https://lnkd.in/ex4KY6-E
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