Healthcare Finance News August 13, 2025
Tackle managed care contracts, be more efficient, get back to the basics but be aggressive, says LCMC chief revenue officer.
Anthony Cunningham is chief revenue officer of LCMC Health, a safety-net nonprofit hospital system based in New Orleans that depends on Medicaid for about a quarter of its annual charges.
So when the reconciliation bill called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed in June with billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, Cunningham knew that many of the system’s currently covered patients were about to become self-pay. Studies suggest that potentially 20% of LCMC’s Medicaid patients could lose coverage.
“When that happens, and people don’t have the ability to pay every bill, healthcare becomes the lowest priority,” he...







