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Wellesley, MA — July 15, 2026 — Payers are denying claims at AI-driven speed, often autoflagging and subsequently denying valid claims for provided care that hospitals and health systems must fight to recover. Benchmark data from MDaudit tells the story: payer audit volume and dollars at risk climbed 30% year over year, with coding-related denials up as much as 26%. Regulatory scrutiny of AI-assisted coding and documentation is also intensifying, contributing to rapidly growing audit backlogs.

Wellesley, MA — June 25, 2026 — In response to payer audits, coding-related denials, and complex compliance demands threatening millions of dollars in revenue, healthcare provider organizations are turning to MDaudit’s award-winning, AI-powered continuous risk monitoring platform, and they’re highly satisfied with the results.

In the complex ecosystem of modern healthcare, the battle is no longer fought only in operating rooms and patient wards. A second front has opened in the back office, a high-stakes conflict over revenue, compliance, and data. Here, healthcare organizations face a relentless barrage of payer audits, complex coding denials, and shifting regulations that threaten their financial stability. In this environment, a new class of defensive technology is emerging, and recent data suggests it’s having a decisive impact.

MDaudit, a company specializing in AI-powered risk monitoring, recently received an overall performance score of 94 out of 100 in a “First Look” report from KLAS Research, a firm renowned for its independent, provider-funded evaluations of healthcare technology. This score not only surpasses the Best in KLAS software average by nearly 13 points but also comes with A+ ratings from customers for partnership, innovation, and likelihood to recommend. While impressive on its own, this validation points to a much larger trend: the critical role of AI in building more resilient financial systems within our most essential institutions.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 23, 2026 – In a reflection of its accelerating investment in AI, automation, data management, and company growth, AGS Health^® today announced the expansion of its executive leadership team. These appointments underscore the company’s commitment to delivering on the promise of revenue cycle AI through practical innovation, clinical expertise, and ROI-driven solutions. As a provider of tech-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions and a strategic growth partner to healthcare providers nationwide, AGS Health is focused on delivering measurable improvements in financial performance while enhancing the patient experience.

At first glance, the April 1, 2026, ICD 10 update from CMS and NCHS looks deceptively quiet. ICD 10 CM adds no new diagnosis codes, retires none, and leaves the Official Coding Guidelines untouched. It reads like a maintenance cycle, but that surface-level stability masks a more meaningful shift.

The 2026 update is less about what codes exist and more about how coders are expected to use them. It subtly changes the internal logic of classification, shifting decision-making away from structured hierarchies embedded in tabular instructions and toward greater reliance on clinical judgment and encounter context.

As CEO of the company, Ritesh focuses on driving growth and profitability for MDaudit with a customer-centric vision, strong team culture, and platform innovation. Ritesh has spent his entire career at the intersection of data, analytics and emerging technologies, transforming business models across various retail and consumer focused industries, including healthcare. Ritesh has 22+ years of experience working for leading professional services firms including PricewaterhouseCoopers(PwC), Hewlett-Packard(HP) and Knightsbridge Solutions before joining MDaudit.

The assessment comes from a HealthcareITToday interview with Ritesh Ramesh, CEO of MDaudit, an AI-powered continuous risk monitoring platform built for healthcare compliance and revenue integrity teams.

Ramesh described a compliance landscape in rapid transition — where the traditional model of periodic, internal audits is no longer adequate against a government enforcement posture using AI at scale.

Healthcare organizations operate in an increasingly complex financial environment where accuracy, speed and compliance directly impact profitability. As reimbursement models evolve and administrative burdens increase, hospitals and provider groups are turning to automation and artificial intelligence to optimize financial performance across the entire revenue cycle.

AGS Health unveils InnovationWorks, a new centre of excellence dedicated to transforming revenue cycle artificial intelligence from pilots into operational tools, supported by Amazon Web Services and tailored for complex healthcare environments.

AGS Health has launched InnovationWorks, a dedicated centre of excellence aimed at turning revenue cycle AI from a promising concept into tools that can be used in live hospital operations. The company says the initiative is designed to produce practical, return-on-investment-led applications for providers facing rising denial rates, labour shortages and mounting pressure on cash flow.

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On June 8, AGS Health announced InnovationWorks™ — a dedicated center of excellence designed to take the hardest, most persistent unsolved problems in revenue cycle and build deployable, ROI-accountable solutions for health systems. Not pilots. Not proofs-of-concept. Solutions that ship.

The model is straightforward: InnovationWorks identifies the operational gaps where AI consistently fails to deliver, assembles internal expertise with external partners, and produces tools providers can actually run without a 12-month transformation program. The emphasis on "no complex transformation programs required" is deliberate — that's a direct shot at the implementation failure rate that's been quietly embarrassing enterprise RCM AI vendors for the past two years.

The financial infrastructure supporting the American healthcare provider network is currently weathering an acute operational storm. Hospital margins are under intense pressure due to skyrocketing clinical labor shortages, expanding uncompensated care liabilities, and an aggressive surge in commercial payer claim denials. To protect capital integrity and maintain cash flow, health systems have turned en masse to digital health applications and automation software.

However, a frustrating pattern has taken hold across the healthcare IT landscape: up to 80% of digital health and automated revenue cycle pilots fail to scale past an initial controlled sandbox. Most revenue cycle management (RCM) platforms are developed under the assumption that a general-purpose model can be easily integrated into any billing department. In reality, these point solutions collapse when forced to navigate a hospital’s chaotic, real-world environment.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 8, 2026 – AGS Health^®, a leading provider of tech-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions and a strategic growth partner to healthcare providers across the U.S., announced today the launch of AGS Health InnovationWorks™. This center of excellence is purpose-built to turn the promise of revenue cycle AI into outcomes that matter to providers: stronger financial performance, better patient financial experience, and the freedom to invest in care. Built on more than a decade of work at the intersection of revenue cycle management, AI, automation, data management, and clinical expertise, AGS Health InnovationWorks produces pragmatic, ROI-driven solutions that deliver real results for provider organizations.

Market intelligence firm Black Book Research has released its “2026 State of Health & Hospital Systems Revenue Cycle Management Technology & Services report,” naming the top client-rated vendors across 49 hospital RCM categories.

The report profiles 420 vendors serving hospitals, health systems and inpatient provider organizations, according to a June 8 news release. Rankings are based on surveys of more than 1,300 validated provider-side participants conducted between October 2025 and June 2026, evaluating vendors across 18 qualitative KPIs per category and 720 total measures.

The latest ICD-10 update may look insignificant to many healthcare organizations. There are no sweeping diagnosis code additions, no major guideline rewrites, and no dramatic restructuring of the classification system at first glance.

That perception could become a costly mistake.

One of the biggest challenges facing healthcare organizations today has to do with revenue integrity and healthcare compliance.  Every organization is focusing on improving its revenue while still ensuring compliance.  Plus, this is becoming even more challenging as the government is leveraging AI to increase the number of audits and holding payments from many providers. This crackdown means provider organizations operating in Medicare or Medicaid programs will feel the impact across their entire compliance and revenue cycle footprint.

What’s interesting about this is that MDaudit was built for exactly this situation.  With that in mind, I had a chance to chat with Ritesh Ramesh, CEO at MDaudit, to learn more about what he’s seeing in the market and some of the ways MDaudit uses its AI-powered continuous risk monitoring platform to help hospitals and health systems.

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