One of Michigan\u2019s largest health systems is cutting a significant number of its non-patient-facing positions nationwide. <\/p>\n
Livonia-based Trinity Health will cut 10.5% of jobs within its revenue cycle department, a spokesperson for the system confirmed Tuesday, Jan. 13. A total number of eliminated jobs was not provided to MLive upon request. <\/p>\n
Trinity said several factors have caused significant challenges for the health care industry, including low reimbursement rates that don\u2019t cover the cost of care, critical staffing shortages and the rising cost of care for underinsured and uninsured patients. <\/p>\n
Those challenges have caused the system to consider ways to reduce costs while providing high-quality care for patients. One such cost-saving avenue is the outsourcing of many non-patient-facing revenue cycle jobs to \u201can external partner.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we are confident this is the right step to protect long-term sustainability of our ministry, we also recognize the real impact on colleagues whose roles are affected,\u201d Trinity Health said in a prepared statement. <\/p>\n
\u201cSupporting these colleagues through this transition with care and respect is our priority. We are grateful for the contributions each colleague has made to our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n
Revenue cycle jobs in health care typically include medical coding and billing positions. Trinity didn\u2019t specify which positions were cut or how many of each job type.<\/p>\n
Trinity Health employs about 133,000 people across 25 states including Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and New Jersey, according to its website. Michigan locations include Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Muskegon and Pontiac. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Michigan\u2019s largest health systems is cutting a significant number of its non-patient-facing positions nationwide. Livonia-based Trinity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-405464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}