Chief Healthcare Executive: Interview with Matt Seefeld at 2026 HIMSS
MedEvolve CEO explores why healthcare leaders need better ways to measure operational effort amid financial pressure for rural hospitals.
Rural hospitals across the United States are facing mounting financial pressure. Public conversations about these challenges often focus on reimbursement levels, workforce shortages, and policy changes. While those issues are real, another pressure is quietly building inside hospital operations.
Administrative work that generates no revenue is consuming time, staff capacity, and financial resources.
When claims require repeated intervention before they are paid, the operational cost multiplies. Staff must correct errors, respond to payer requests, and resubmit claims. Each step adds more work, delays payment, and diverts limited resources away from higher-value activities.
For rural hospitals with smaller administrative teams, the impact can be especially significant. Every additional claim touch represents time that staff cannot spend on other essential responsibilities. Over time, that hidden workload can compound into a meaningful financial strain.
In a new article published in Chief Healthcare Executive, MedEvolve CEO Matt Seefeld explores how administrative complexity is contributing to financial pressure for rural hospitals and why healthcare leaders need better ways to measure operational effort.
The article examines:
As rural hospitals work to maintain financial stability and protect access to care in their communities, understanding the operational drivers behind administrative work will be critical.
Matt Seefeld, Chief Executive Officer at MedEvolve, brings over 24 years of management consulting experience in the healthcare industry. He has extensive expertise in the assessment, design and implementation of process improvement programs and technology development across the entire revenue cycle. Matt began his career with Stockamp & Associates, Inc. and worked for both PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Deloitte Consulting LLP in their healthcare and life sciences practice lines. In 2007, he developed a business intelligence solution and founded Interpoint Partners, LLC, where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. In 2011, he sold his business to Streamline Health Solutions where he then served as Chief Strategist of Revenue Cycle followed by Senior Vice President of Solutions Strategy until 2014. Matt ran global sales for NantHealth and provided consulting services for healthcare technology and service businesses nationwide, prior to joining MedEvolve full-time.
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