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How ASCs Can Strengthen Cash Flow Amid Industry Pressures: Insights from nimble solutions
21 Nov 2025
This episode features Tim Fuchs, Chief Growth Officer, and Amanda Whitener, Senior Director of Client Development at nimble solutions. They share actionable strategies ASCs can use to accelerate cash flow, strengthen revenue cycle performance, and stay proactive in the face of rising costs, increasing payer complexity, and ongoing industry uncertainty.This episode is sponsored by nimble solutions.
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hi, everyone. This is Lucas Voss with Becker's Healthcare. Thanks so much for tuning into the Becker's Healthcare podcast series. Fantastic to have you. An exciting topic today, leading through uncertainty, how ASCs can strengthen cash flow and stay ahead.
And joining me for today's discussion, very excited to have them both, is Tim Fuchs, Chief Growth Officer, and Amanda Whitener, Senior Director of Client Development, both at Nimble Solutions. Tim and Amanda, it's so great to have you. Thanks for being here.
Chapter 2: What is the main topic of the episode about ASCs?
Thanks for having me. Thanks, Lucas. I want to start off with introductions for our audience that might not know you yet. Tim, we'll start with you here.
Great. Thanks, Lucas. So Tim Fuchs, Chief Growth Officer for Nimble. And I've been here for nearly 10 years. And our organization is a RCM company that has around roughly 1200 clients in all 50 states. We grew our business focusing on the ASC market. But as we began to grow that, we started being asked to do the clinic side of things and anesthesia.
So we really focus on being an outpatient surgical RCM focused organization, being able to support our clients from an enterprise wide view, whether that's their surgery center, their practice or their anesthesia group. We don't do acute care work on the hospital side. We really focus on that outpatient market. And it's great to be connected with you today.
And we also have Amanda Weitner, who is a senior director of client development here at Nimble. And Amanda, we'll let you jump in here too.
Sure. Thank you, Tim. Thank you, Lucas. Yeah, as Tim stated, my name is Amanda Whitener, Senior Director of Client Development here at Nimble. Been in the RCM space and the healthcare space over a decade now, most of that time being spent with Nimble. I love this industry. ASC is ever changing and working for a group that
stays apprised of those changes and disseminates it to the industry accordingly is always just very exciting and very rewarding. I'm very blessed to be here with this group and looking forward to having this conversation today.
One more thing really quick too, I should mention that our clients really represent every ownership structure in the ASC space. We work with independent groups, health systems, we touch most of the management companies. and private equity firms, corporate organizations, MSOs, et cetera. So we've got about 20% of the ASC market in some form or fashion working with us.
So we have a lot of great experience that we can bring to this conversation today.
i'm excited to hear about some of that because we're going to touch on it for sure and it's on in our title too uh of our conversation today cash flow and tim i want to start off with you here why is accelerating cash flow so important right now in the environment we're in yeah absolutely so yeah with reimbursement pressure right now rising costs and shifting case mix
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Chapter 3: Why is accelerating cash flow crucial for ASCs right now?
And because this is so multifaceted, it's fantastic to have you both on because you both bring so much experience and so many different aspects to this conversation. I want to close this out with. your best piece of advice for ASCs navigating this uncertainty, this space, all of these challenges that we've highlighted throughout the conversation. Amanda, I'd love to start off with you here.
What's your best piece of advice for ASCs navigating financial uncertainty right now?
Yeah, I mean, I would say just focus on the fundamentals. When margins are tight, the little things matter. So you want to make sure your front end teams are supported and trained, that documentation is clean, and authorizations are handled right the first time.
When those things are solid, you're not just improving your cash flow, you're actually building confidence across your entire organization. So you can weather the noise because you know your processes are strong, right? And don't be afraid to ask the ASC-specific experts and listen to what they have to say. Anybody in this industry knows that it's very nuanced. It's different than HOPD.
It's different than clinics. It's very different. Even if you've been in the industry for 30-plus years, it continues to change. So knowing that there are specialists for each step of the revenue cycle – as well as those who understand the payer landscape in a way that requires that dedicated attention to the way they operate, that's huge.
So you wanna lean on your resources that may have additional expertise in any area you may be struggling with. And don't be afraid to ask those questions no matter how long you've been in the industry.
Tim, what's your piece of advice?
I'd echo that too. And I'd stay proactive, as I've mentioned, not reactive. It's easy to feel like you're playing defense right now, but the ASCs that are thriving are the ones that stay curious about their numbers and data, and the ones that know their data are the ones that are ahead.
They're watching their denial patterns, their AR days, their payer mix, and they're acting on those insights in real time. When you treat your data like a conversation instead of a report, you can spot the small issues before they turn into big problems. And honestly, that's what separates the good from the great.
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