Healthcare CFOs Use AI and Automation to Boost Financial Returns and Revenue-Cycle Efficiency

U.S. healthcare systems face persistently high labor costs, lower government insurance reimbursements, and cash-flow pressure from claim denials caused by eligibility checks, prior authorization requirements and coding errors. CFOs are therefore treating revenue-cycle management as digital infrastructure, deploying automation, AI, real-time data and predictive analytics to improve returns from existing operations and reduce long-term risks.

PYMNTS reported on March 18, 2026, that former Michigan Medicine CEO Marschall Runge cited an unnamed hospital where operating-room utilization rose 20% after AI was used to monitor surgical workflows and predict when patients would enter recovery rooms. Nearly half of healthcare and life sciences organizations have formally adopted generative AI, though the report did not disclose how much they had invested.