Providence Health & Services-California Engages PHNS? Revenue Cycle Services

DALLAS — PHNS announced that Providence Health & Services-California (Providence) has selected PHNS to provide primary early placement outsourced revenue cycle services. Providence is a not-for-profit health system that has 5 hospitals in California and an additional 22 hospitals in Alaska, Washington, Montana and Oregon.

PHNS provides a full range of revenue cycle services for hospitals including full and partial receivables management, business office and accounts receivable services, and interim revenue cycle services using PHNS’ proprietary processes and procedures. It can constantly track the progress of claims and collections through the use of customized tools that help hospitals manage their accounts receivable. Its revenue cycle services use a sophisticated and highly-structured process to maximize revenues. PHNS’ areas of expertise include managed care, Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurance, workers’ compensation and self-pay accounts.

“PHNS has a long-standing revenue cycle relationship with Providence-California, and we are very pleased to expand that relationship to include revenue cycle services for Providence’s Southern California Regional Business Office,” said Dave Canfield, President of PHNS’ revenue cycle services division.

“Providence-California selected PHNS because of their commitment to excellence in service and confidence in PHNS’ revenue cycle capabilities for hospitals and hospital systems,” said Jan Grankowski, Regional Director of Revenue Cycle Management at Providence-California.

About Providence Health & Services:
Providence Health & Services is a not-for-profit Catholic health care ministry committed to providing for the needs of the communities we serve – especially the poor and vulnerable. Our comprehensive scope of services includes 27 hospitals, more than 35 non-acute care facilities, physician clinics, a health plan, a liberal arts university, a high school, approximately 49,000 employees and numerous other health, housing and educational services. Our ministries span five states – Alaska, Washington, Montana, Oregon and California – with our system office located in Renton, Washington. Providence Health & Services in Alaska, Washington, Montana and Oregon is sponsored by the Sister of Providence religious community. In southern California, the health ministry is co-sponsored by the Sisters of Providence and the Little Company of Mary. See www.providence.org for additional information about Providence Health & Services.

About PHNS:
PHNS provides IT services for hospitals, other healthcare providers and businesses. PHNS’ IT services include application hosting, co-location and managed services; electronic off-site data back-up and data vaulting; business continuity solutions; disaster recovery services; and systems integration services. PHNS also provides clinical informatics/analytic services, comprehensive business process solutions for hospitals including patient access, HIM (including medical record management and storage, transcription, coding, release of information and electronic medical record services) and revenue cycle services. PHNS creates business-healthy hospitals by improving operations, enhancing technology and increasing cash on hand, which allows hospitals to focus on their core competency–patient care. PHNS has approximately 1,670 customers, including approximately 400 hospital IT and business process customers and approximately 1,270 IT customers. PHNS is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. See www.phns.com for additional information about PHNS.