Podnosis How Hospitals Can Stop Revenue Leakage: Claritev’s Dr. Jigar Patel on Data, Transparency, and Reimbursement Integrity (Sponsored)
Oct 27, 2025
Dr. Jigar Patel, the Chief Medical and Product Officer at Claritev, shares insights on the critical issue of revenue leakage in hospitals. He discusses how inefficiencies can cost facilities 15–25 cents of every revenue dollar, particularly impacting community and rural hospitals. Dr. Patel highlights the role of specialty services and patient movement in this leakage, and he introduces Claritev’s CompleteVue, a tool that helps identify revenue loss points and improves contract negotiations. Tune in for valuable strategies to enhance financial health in healthcare.
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From Pathology To Payment Tech
- Dr. Jigar Patel transitioned from practicing pathology to health IT and product leadership over two decades.
- He moved from large EMR work at Oracle to Claritev to focus on payment and reimbursement challenges.
Leakage Is Mostly Invisible
- Revenue leakage often remains invisible because hospitals lack standardized data and analytics capability.
- Smaller community and rural hospitals are especially blind to where and when leakage occurs.
Specialty Care Drives Local Leakage
- Specialty care is a major source of patient and revenue leakage for community hospitals.
- Patients travel for specialists, shifting both physician fees and ancillary hospital revenue away from local systems.