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title: How Medical Groups Can Tune up Front-end RCM Processes and Capture More Revenue
description: While many medical groups focus on improving back-end processes, studies show that the biggest opportunities to improve profitability occur in the front-end patient engagement process.
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# [How Medical Groups Can Tune up Front-end RCM Processes and Capture More Revenue](https://www.zolldata.com/blog/how-medical-groups-can-tune-up-front-end-rcm-processes-and-capture-more-revenue)

 Written by [Christa Lassen-Vogel, Senior Manager, ZOLL Software and Data Solutions](https://www.zolldata.com/blog/author/christa-lassen-vogel-senior-manager-of-marketing-communications-zoll-data-systems) | Apr 22, 2022 7:15:00 PM

Medical groups are facing unprecedented cost increases as well as lost revenue that can never be recaptured. While many groups focus on back-of-house revenue cycle management improvements to improve profitability, both research and case studies show that breakdowns in patient-facing interactions at the front end of the patient encounter are where the biggest revenue losses occur.

In February 2022, [Juli Forde Smith](https://www.zolldata.com/blog/author/juli-forde), Director at ZOLL® Data Systems, presented an MGMA webinar on how medical groups can reduce the administrative burden on front-end, patient-facing staff while at the same time, improving the profitability and financial health of medical groups. She highlighted specific financial and administrative challenges facing through case studies and the latest research, and shared tangible strategies for reducing losses that occur in the early stages of patient interactions and ways to optimize reimbursement.

The top challenges faced by medical groups include:

According to Smith, the areas that offer the strongest opportunities for mitigating losses and improving revenue capture include:

[Reducing the Burden of Patient-Facing Administrative and Revenue Cycle Task](https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/3681726/B88EA166E2D280702236203BEC1AFF4F)s

i “US Healthcare Labor Market.” mercer.us, accessed 18 March 2022.  
ii “The Change Healthcare 2020 Revenue Cycle Denials Index.” changehealthcare.com, accessed 18 March 2022.

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