New healthcare management guide presents daily metrics, warning thresholds, and practical playbooks for protecting revenue performance.
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Patricia Roels has announced the forthcoming release of Cash Before Crisis: The Revenue Cycle Playbook for Managers Who Hate Surprises, a resource for healthcare revenue cycle leaders seeking to detect operational problems before they become serious cash-flow emergencies.
Healthcare organizations often measure performance through monthly collection totals and other results that reveal what has already happened. Cash Before Crisis introduces a proactive approach based on monitoring the processes and warning signals that influence future financial outcomes.
The book identifies seven daily metrics that provide an early view of revenue cycle performance. These include denial rate, first-pass resolution rate, clean claim rate, authorization approval rate, cash collected versus expected, and accounts receivable older than 90 days. Readers learn what the metrics indicate, how they work together, and when changes require attention.
“Cash flow problems don’t appear out of nowhere. They leave clues for weeks before they become crises. The managers who avoid disasters aren’t lucky. They built a system that reads those clues early and responds before the damage compounds,”— Roels writes in the book.
Cash Before Crisis moves beyond identifying problems by providing structured playbooks for high-pressure situations. The guide outlines response steps for denial spikes, deteriorating accounts receivable, payer delays, system outages, and coding-error surges. It also examines front-end breakdowns involving registration, eligibility, and prior authorization, showing how small process failures can later affect reimbursement.
Additional sections address cross-department accountability, team development, leadership communication, and the creation of an operation that does not depend on one manager personally catching every problem. A 90-day implementation plan helps readers translate the book’s principles into workplace changes.
Created for revenue cycle managers, business office leaders, healthcare administrators, and executives, the book is intended for professionals seeking clearer operational visibility, stronger accountability, and fewer financial surprises.
Ahead of its release, Cash Before Crisis will be showcased at the Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse), taking place October 7–11, 2026, in Frankfurt, Germany. As the world’s largest international publishing event, the fair brings together publishers, literary agents, booksellers, and industry professionals from around the globe. The book’s presence at Frankfurt offers an opportunity to introduce its practical, prevention-focused approach to revenue cycle management to an international audience of publishing and professional-development leaders.
Cash Before Crisis: The Revenue Cycle Playbook for Managers Who Hate Surprises will be available soon.
About the Author
Patricia Roels is a healthcare revenue cycle leader with more than 35 years of provider-side experience. She has led complex operations and worked with executives, physicians, administrators, and revenue cycle teams to strengthen financial and operational performance.
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Last modified: October 9, 2026
