Sustaining and Growing Through Heritage:  With 22 years experience as a niche provider of healthcare revenue cycle best practices, we have published numerous thought leadership and benchmarking reports, presented at hundreds of revenue cycle management educational conferences, and have co-led close to one thousand revenue improvement initiatives at hospitals nationwide.  In short, our extensive research, industry experience, and ability to get results have positioned us as one of the nation’s top tier solutions providers for revenue cycle management.  Our revenue cycle capabilities broaden and expand each year.  As the complexity and sophistication of our clients' challenges have grown along with their need to achieve higher levels of performance, Zimmerman has developed into a continuously evolving organization that can help clients achieve their goals.

Industry: We solely service Revenue Cycle leadership at healthcare providers across the United States.

Core Focus: Our core focus is centered on the research of best practices and education pertaining to the most pressing Revenue Cycle issues for hospitals across the nation.

Delivery Model: We work with healthcare providers in the form of research communities.  We believe in community-based learning through formal benchmarking and best practice sharing events.

Methodology: We use a technical methodology called Revenue Cycle Architecture™ and a strategic change management approach identified as Lean Six Sigma™.

Value: Each research initiative is aimed at attaining significant improvements to income statement, balance sheet and patient satisfaction.

Background: We have been in business since 1986.  We have over 300 hospitals across the U.S. actively engaged in current research communities.  Since our inception, our footprint (products and services) has reached over 80% of the nation’s hospitals.

Reputation: With benchmarking and best practice research as our foundation, we have built the deepest revenue cycle management best practices database in the industry and have earned the reputation as the top-tier provider of revenue cycle best practices and benchmarking.