Episode Details

In this episode, Konstantin Gorelik, HFMA Certified Healthcare Analytics and Operations Consultant, discusses how healthcare finance and revenue cycle leaders can use data stewardship and external benchmarking to proactively reduce compliance, reimbursement, and regulatory risk.

Highlights of this episode include:

• What data stewardship means in the context of revenue cycle and compliance risk.
• How organizations think about the strategic value of internal and external data.
• What proactive monitoring looks like in practice.
• How strong data practices make a difference in a high-risk situation.
• How finance teams can use data to objectively evaluate issues.
• Practical steps toward building a more proactive, data-driven risk monitoring approach.

Kelly Wisness: Hi, this is Kelly Wisness. Welcome back to the award-winning Hospital Finance Podcast.  We’re pleased to welcome Konstantin Gorelik. Konstantin is an HFMA certified healthcare analytics and operations consultant with over 10 years of experience advising hospitals and provider organizations on reimbursement strategy, compliance risk, and revenue cycle performance. He previously served as a managing consultant at BRG, where he led complex claims analysis, payor provider dispute engagements, regulatory assessments, and multi-hospital monitoring initiatives. Konstantin focuses on data stewardship as a strategic tool, helping healthcare leaders translate internal and public data into structured, proactive risk monitoring frameworks that protect revenue in an increasingly transparent and regulated healthcare market.

In this episode, we discuss how healthcare finance and revenue cycle leaders can use data stewardship and external benchmarking to proactively reduce compliance, reimbursement, and regulatory risk.

Welcome, and thank you for joining us, Konstantin.

Konstantin Gorelik: Thanks so much, Kelly. It’s great to be here.

Kelly: It’s great to have you. Well, let’s go ahead and jump in. So, when healthcare finance leaders hear data stewardship, it can sound abstract. So, what does it actually mean in the context of revenue cycle and compliance risk?

Konstantin: That’s an excellent question, and it’s not the first time or the last time that I get that w