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Healthcare organizations spent $19 billion on back-office Revenue Cycle technology — and 29% of total healthcare IT spend now flows directly into RCM infrastructure. That level of investment doesn't reflect a support function. It reflects a core financial operation that determines whether a health system collects what it earns.

Yet 70% of healthcare executives cite operational efficiency as their top priority heading into 2026 — while only 37% are responding to burnout and staffing pressure through automation. The gap between those two numbers is where Revenue Cycle leadership vacancies do the most damage.
Technology investment without experienced leadership to drive it produces dashboards that report the problem without resolving it.

AR days don't improve because a system flags them. Denial rates don't drop because a workflow tool tracks them. Both require a Revenue Cycle leader who owns the accountability layer between the data and the decision — and who can translate what the numbers are showing into operational action at the payer, coding, and collections level.

Revenue Cycle is no longer a back-office function. The organizations treating it as enterprise infrastructure — and staffing it accordingly — are the ones protecting margin while others explain variances.

Connect with Nearterm to discuss Revenue Cycle leadership search.

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63% of healthcare providers report active staffing gaps in their Revenue Cycle departments — leading to increased billing errors, slower collections, and growing compliance exposure. That figure comes from the American Academy of Professional Coders 2026 report. The gap is not coming. For most organizations, it is already here and already costing them.

What an RCM staffing gap actually produces is not always visible immediately. More coding errors reach the billing stage. AR follow-up falls behind as remaining staff absorb more than they were built to carry. Denied claims sit without a named workflow owner. Compliance risk grows quietly in the background — until a payer audit or regulatory review makes it visible all at once.

Nearterm addresses each of those consequences directly. RCM professionals matched to the specific gap. Interim coverage operational within days. Every candidate screened on payer mix familiarity and EMR depth. The permanent search runs in parallel without urgency pressure and without the wrong hire made under a deadline.

If your Revenue Cycle department is carrying a gap right now, contact Gayle Tapps at Nearterm.

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Most staffing firms ask healthcare organizations to invest before they deliver. Nearterm works differently.

You pay when we place. Not before. Not when a candidate interviews. Not on submission. When the right person accepts your offer, starts in the role, and is performing.

The search begins on the first call. Nearterm sources from an active healthcare-specific network and delivers a curated slate within 7 to 14 days. Every candidate on that slate has been pre-screened on operational fit — the payer mix they understand, the systems they have worked in, the leadership scope they have held, and whether they are genuinely committed to moving.

If the right hire is not found, there is no invoice. The financial risk sits entirely with Nearterm — and that alignment is precisely why every submission is made with confidence rather than volume.

When a firm earns nothing until placement, every decision in the search changes. Who gets submitted. How they are screened. What the intake conversation covers. All of it is oriented toward one outcome — the right hire for your organization.

Revenue Cycle · Radiology · Healthcare Finance · Interim Leadership.

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navigating a Revenue Cycle leadership vacancy needs something completely different from an imaging center managing a CT coverage gap. And both need something different from a health system running an executive CFO search.
That is why Nearterm does not operate as a general staffing firm. Three specialists. Three practice areas. One search partner that understands the difference between them.

Gayle Tapps leads healthcare finance executive search and interim leadership placement — CFO, Revenue Cycle Director, Patient Access, HIM, and Pre-Services. Jess Tello runs direct hire RCM and PFS searches, reaching the revenue cycle professionals who are performing well in current roles and open to the right conversation. Khadiza Hannan covers radiology and imaging — CT, MRI, X-Ray, PET, and travel assignments — with scanner platform and protocol depth confirmed before any submission.

Three specialties. Zero generalism. Every search is run by the recruiter who knows that function from the inside.

If your organization has an open seat in any of these areas, the right specialist is ready to take your call today.

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A filled position and a successful placement are not the same thing. One closes a search. The other builds something that holds.

When any of the eight factors Nearterm evaluates is unclear before placement — skills, department needs, systems, leadership expectations, shift fit, professional goals, team structure, or long-term alignment — the placement is at risk before the candidate walks in on day one.

Most searches focus heavily on the client side: credentials, availability, interview performance. Fewer ask whether the shift fits the candidate's life, whether their career goals align with where the role is going, or whether the team structure supports the kind of work they do best.

That is the matching gap. And it is why placements that look right on paper do not always hold.

Nearterm defines all eight factors — on both sides — before any submission reaches a hiring manager. That is not a longer process. It is a more focused one.

If your organization has an open seat that has been hard to fill, or has been filled and refilled, the conversation with Nearterm is worth having.

Hospitals are not just struggling to find candidates. They are struggling to find the right candidates for the right environments.

A healthcare leader asking whether someone has the right experience is asking the wrong question in isolation. The better question is whether that experience matches the specific department, the team structure, the system in use, the shift expectations, and the leadership culture they would be entering.

On the candidate side, the question is just as important. A role that pays well but does not match the way you work, the pace you perform in, or the career direction you are building toward is not the right opportunity — regardless of the title.

Nearterm works between both sides of that equation. Every placement considers skills and credentials, department needs, systems and equipment, leadership expectations, shift and workload, and team structure — before anyone interviews.

The goal is not simply to complete the hire. It is to create a placement with a stronger reason to succeed.

If your organization needs a more focused search, or if you are a healthcare professional evaluating your next move, contact Nearterm today.

A vacant leadership seat in Revenue Cycle does not stay quiet. AR days climb. Denials stack. Teams run without direction. Cash performance slips before anyone names the cause.

Gayle Tapps has spent over 20 years placing the leaders who walk into those situations and stabilize them — interim and permanent, operational from the first week. CFO. Revenue Cycle Director. Patient Access Director. Interim A/R Management. Remote Pre-Services. Access Oversight. Interim CFO. Revenue Cycle Operations Lead.

If your organization has any of these seats open, the conversation with Gayle starts today. No placement, no fee. No pressure to rush the permanent decision.

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