Eight years ago, the cost to rework a single claim was estimated at $25. The financial burden has only increased over time. According to Change Healthcare, denied claims put $4.9M of net patient revenue at risk for an average hospital, with $118 spent on appeals per claim. Reducing preventable denials by even a few percentages … 7 reasons why health insurance claims are denied (and how to prevent them)
A successful RCM integration is impossible without a sound strategy and architecture. Each phase sets up the next, allowing the team to avoid scope creep and costly reworks. Here’s how to integrate RCM functionality into a healthcare product in a way that is scalable, compliant, and matches how payers actually operate. Table of contents: #1 … How to Integrate RCM into a Healthcare Product: a Practical, Step-by-Step Guide
As a company specializing in RCM integration, we analyzed CMS-0057-F, the ONC HTI-1 Final Rule, and 42 CFR Part 2 Final Rule to help you understand the changes from the engineering perspective. Table of contents: CMS-0057-F: FHIR API and accelerated workflows ONC HTI-1 Final Rule and algorithm transparency CFR Part 2 Final Rule: privacy & … How CMS rules reshape RCM integration in 2026: action plan for healthcare vendors
Over the past few years, I worked as a Lead Business Analyst on several projects focused on healthcare revenue cycle optimization, both inside existing EHR/PM platforms and standalone RCM automation tools. In my experience, the top performers in the niche exhibit similar behavior. They treat the revenue cycle as a productized pipeline with owned rules, … Healthcare revenue cycle optimization guide for startups and product companies
Patient access APIs are relatively simple for teams with cloud-native expertise. The tricky part is mapping the data from all the legacy systems to appropriate FHIR resources, creating the logic for the FHIR transformation, and synchronizing the data properly across the systems. This guide will cover these challenges in greater detail, so that you can … 12-Step Guide to Patient Access APIs with Azure Health Data Services
At MindK, we’ve been stress-testing AI capabilities at all levels, from requirements analysis to rapid MVP development. Test automation is a natural path forward. Implementing codeless TA on several large projects revealed significant advantages in accessibility, test creation speed, and cost savings. However, our hands-on experience also highlights the limitations and hidden complexities of codeless … Codeless Test Automation: Does It Live Up To the Hype (And How to Make the Most of It)?
As a healthcare design (and development) agency, MindK is well aware of these pains. We’ve created this guide for those who want to avoid these nasty complications with an effective 7-step remedy process. Table of contents: Hidden costs of poor UX design in healthcare Unique challenges of medical UX design 7 best remedies for medical … Healthcare UX Design: 7 Best Remedies for the Industry’s Unique Pains
To better understand what this means for the industry, we interviewed the people who manage patient records. After explaining the Rule in plain words, we’ll dive into the meat and potatoes—the new APIs necessary for compliance and an actionable timeline for payors. Table of contents: What is CMS-0057-F? Who is subject to it? How to … CMS-0057-F: what it means for payors, and how to prepare
At MindK, we tried to fix this by outsourcing as many tasks as possible to our (not–so–trusty) AI assistant and watching it fail or succeed. This article is an honest overview of this experience and a step-by-step guide on how to build apps using AI. But first, a little background. Early in 2024, I consulted … AI Software Development: Lessons from a Commercial Project
Suddenly, our top priority became entering the US market. This is where HIPAA certification comes into play, together with infrastructure as code and yours truly. In this article, I’ll show how to generate Terraform from existing resources, make your infrastructure idempotent, and automate its deployment. I’ll also explain how to make sure that any future … How to Import Existing Resources In Terraform for HIPAA Compliance
So, we decided to experiment with codeless test automation on a live project in the Healthcare domain. Our goal was to assess the effectiveness of the approach and understand its actual value to the company. In this article, we’ll concentrate on the more critical metric – Return on Investment (ROI). We’ll also provide an Excel … Codeless Test Automation ROI: Calculations and Comparison with Traditional Automation
It’s been an honor to grow alongside our clients and their amazing products. In the past year, we focused on creating new engineering teams and integrating them closely with the clients’ in-house IT departments. With over 80% of the staff working on medical products, MindK has established itself as a household name in the healthcare … Inc 5000: MindK is one of the fastest-growing US companies