Healthcare

Fractional CFO Services for Healthcare Companies

Financial Clarity in a Rapidly Changing Healthcare Landscape

Ascent CFO Solutions helps healthcare organizations manage complex financial environments, improve operational margins, and prepare for sustainable growth–without the commitment of a full-time CFO hire. Learn more below how we help companies in the healthcare sector.

Strategic Finance for Healthcare Providers, Platforms, and Innovators

The business of healthcare is anything but simple. Whether you’re managing a payer mix of private insurance, government programs and self-pay, navigating value-based contracts, or scaling a digital health platform, financial oversight is mission-critical.

At Ascent CFO Solutions, we bring structure to your complexity. Our experienced CFOs help healthcare leaders gain visibility into revenue cycles, control costs, forecast confidently, and prepare for audits, growth, or fundraising with a scalable, fractional model designed for flexibility.

Why Healthcare Companies Choose Ascent CFO Solutions

From solo-owned practices to private equity-backed provider networks and health tech startups, our clients trust us to help them:

1. Gain Control Over Cash Flow & Revenue Cycles

We help you forecast around variable receivables, payer delays, reimbursement rates, and operational costs—so you can stay ahead of revenue timing and liquidity needs.

2. Improve Profitability Without Compromising Care

Our CFOs help you understand unit-level economics by service line, location, or provider—so you can optimize staffing, reduce unnecessary spend, and scale efficiently.

3. Navigate Regulatory & Audit-Ready Reporting

We prepare your financials for lender reviews, investor diligence, grant reporting, and audits, all while ensuring GAAP compliance and system integrity.

4. Support Growth, M&A, and Private Equity Partnerships

From financial modeling and pro formas to due diligence support and post-close integration, we help you prepare for investment, acquisition, or expansion.

5. Connect Clinical and Financial Outcomes

We help align cost centers and care delivery by integrating key performance indicators (KPIs) across departments, from billing to patient throughput.

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Who We Work With in Healthcare

Ascent CFO serves a wide range of healthcare and health-adjacent organizations, including:

Physician practices and specialty clinics
Behavioral health providers and outpatient programs
Dental support organizations (DSOs) and MSOs
Digital health, med tech, and health tech startups
Home health, hospice, and long-term care groups
Private equity-backed provider platforms
Medical device companies
Non-profit and grant-funded healthcare organizations

Whether you’re payer-facing or patient-facing, tech-forward or brick-and-mortar, we tailor our services to your business model and growth stage.

What Ascent CFO Delivers for Healthcare Clients

Our Fractional CFO services offer a scalable, strategic solution without the $250K+ price tag of a full-time executive. We deliver:

Core Healthcare CFO Services

Revenue cycle analysis and forecasting
Payer mix and reimbursement modeling
Budgeting, cash flow, and financial projections
Service line profitability and cost containment
Support with audits, grants, and compliance reporting
Financial due diligence for M&A or private equity investment
Practice management systems and EHR/EMR integration
Scenario planning for expansion, hiring, or capital spend
Board, lender, and investor-ready financial presentations

Whether you need strategic guidance for 10 hours a week or full-time interim leadership during a critical transition, we scale with your needs.

Why Ascent CFO Solutions?

Decades of experience in healthcare finance across provider, payer, and platform sectors
Flexible, scalable support – fractional or interim
Fast onboarding and actionable insights in 30 days or less
Transparent pricing, starting at $60K/year with month-to-month engagements and no long-term contracts
Integrated team of CFOs, Controllers, and Financial/Data Analysts, and Accounting Managers
Compliance-ready processes for peace of mind

FAQs: How Fractional CFO Services Strengthen Healthcare Companies

When does a healthcare company know it’s time to bring in a Fractional CFO?

It’s time to consider healthcare finance consulting from a Fractional CFO when your company has moved beyond “keeping the lights on” and into questions like, “Can we afford to hire another provider, expand a location, or add a new product or service line?” Common triggers include rapid growth, cash flow volatility, increased payer complexity, or preparing for a major decision such as a buy-in, buy-out, or sale. A Fractional CFO provides strategic financial leadership at inflection points—without the cost of a full-time executive.

How is a Fractional CFO different from my CPA or practice manager?

Your CPA focuses on historical reporting and tax compliance, and your practice manager keeps daily operations running. A Fractional CFO connects the two—translating financial data into strategy, forecasts, and decisions about staffing, service lines, compensation models, and capital investments.

What specific financial challenges in healthcare can a Fractional CFO solve?

Through targeted healthcare finance consulting, a Fractional CFO helps healthcare organizations tackle the financial pain points that erode margins over time, including:

Reimbursement and denials: improving charge capture, coding accuracy, contract performance, and denial management.
Staffing and provider economics: aligning provider schedules, productivity, compensation models, and support staffing with true demand.
Cash flow and capital planning: smoothing cash cycles, planning for equipment, technology, and expansion, and building a roadmap for sustainable growth.

By addressing these areas systematically, we help practices turn complexity into a clear, data-backed financial plan.

How can a CFO improve margins in a healthcare practice?

A seasoned Fractional CFO delivers healthcare finance consulting that treats both the clinical and financial sides of the business as an integrated system. Beyond basic bookkeeping, they analyze payer contracts, service mix, and operational workflows to uncover where revenue is leaking and costs are rising. For example, a CFO can:

Optimize reimbursement and coding by reviewing charge capture, coding practices, and denial trends to increase net collections without adding new visits.
Tighten labor and overhead costs by aligning provider and staff schedules with true patient demand, reducing overtime, and renegotiating key vendor and facility contracts.
Strengthen revenue cycle performance by setting clear KPIs (days in A/R, first-pass claim rate, patient pay collection rates), implementing better front-desk and billing processes, and leveraging technology to speed collections.
Refine service and payer mix by identifying low-margin services or payers and designing a strategy to shift toward higher-value procedures, programs, or contracts.

By implementing these changes and monitoring a focused set of financial and operational dashboards, a Fractional CFO helps healthcare practices protect margins today and create a more scalable, resilient business for tomorrow.

Healthcare Companies That Trust Ascent CFO Solutions

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Ready to align your mission with a more resilient financial foundation?

Schedule a discovery call with Ascent CFO Solutions today. We’ll discuss your challenges, goals, and growth stage and deliver a custom plan to bring financial clarity to your healthcare business.