Case Study: Columbus Regional Healthcare System achieves seamless legacy AR wind-down and major cost savings with Harmony Healthcare IT

Active Archiving as a Revenue Cycle Solution After a System Migration

Columbus Regional Healthcare System, a 154‑bed not‑for‑profit in Whiteville, NC, faced a revenue-cycle challenge after migrating from Paragon to Cerner Millennium: accounts receivable records remained in the legacy Paragon system but had to be retained for Medicare compliance and collections while Paragon was proposing much higher month‑to‑month fees. The health system engaged Harmony Healthcare IT and adopted Harmony’s HealthData AR Manager™ active archive to address the problem.

Harmony Healthcare IT built an active archive of eight years of detailed account records, enabling Columbus Regional to decommission Paragon in three months, continue in‑house collections without a full billing system, and generate an S‑10 Medicare Cost Report covering four years. The HealthData AR Manager™ cost roughly the equivalent of four months of Paragon fees (avoiding a proposed tripling of monthly costs), reduced legacy storage and maintenance expenses, and is expected to provide access to itemized statements and audit reports for more than 10 years.

Columbus Regional Healthcare System

Ed Duryee

Director of Information Systems