Sage Intacct for Healthcare
By the Time Your CFO Sees the Financials, the Numbers Are Already Three Weeks Old
Multi-location healthcare organizations spend 18+ days closing the books every month. Facility-level data gets exported, reformatted in Excel, and manually consolidated before leadership ever sees it. DSD configures Sage Intacct around how your organization actually operates, so your finance team reports on what’s happening now instead of what happened last month.
17+ HOURS
lost to Excel every month.
18+ Days
to close the books.
25+ YEARS
on the same system (average)
The Problem You're Too Buried to Fix
Corporate finance teams at multi-location healthcare organizations are underwater. Month-end close stretches past two weeks. Consolidation across facilities means exporting data from one system, reformatting it in Excel, and hoping nothing was misallocated before leadership sees it. By the time a financial report reaches the CFO’s desk, the numbers are stale.
The people most burdened by this inefficiency are too deep in the work to step back and evaluate alternatives. So the workaround stays the same: hire another accountant.
Expenses land at the wrong facility without detection. Approval workflows don’t exist, so unauthorized spending only surfaces after the fact. Audit risk compounds with every manual touchpoint. Leadership lacks the real-time data they need to make acquisition decisions or respond to reimbursement changes while they still can.
Every facility you manage carries this operational tax, whether you see it on a line item or not.
Doing Nothing Is the Most Expensive Option
Corporate finance teams at multi-location healthcare organizations are underwater. Month-end close stretches past two weeks. Consolidation across facilities means exporting data from one system, reformatting it in Excel, and hoping nothing was misallocated before leadership sees it. By the time a financial report reaches the CFO’s desk, the numbers are stale.
The people most burdened by this inefficiency are too deep in the work to step back and evaluate alternatives. So the workaround stays the same: hire another accountant.
Expenses land at the wrong facility without detection. Approval workflows don’t exist, so unauthorized spending only surfaces after the fact. Audit risk compounds with every manual touchpoint. Leadership lacks the real-time data they need to make acquisition decisions or respond to reimbursement changes while they still can.
Every facility you manage carries this operational tax, whether you see it on a line item or not.
What Changes When Your Finance Stack Catches Up to Your Operations
Your CFO shouldn’t have to wait until month-end to know where the money went. Sage Intacct configured by DSD gives leadership a live view of revenue and expenses across every facility, every day. Decisions happen on current data instead of last month’s reconciliation.
Growth through acquisition is the strategy, but if every new facility means another accountant on the payroll, the math stops working. DSD configures Intacct so your existing team can absorb new entities without proportional headcount increases. The system handles the consolidation that used to take a person.
Manual exports from PointClickCare, MatrixCare, eClinicalWorks, NextGen, or Epic into your GL are a liability. EMR Connect automates that pipeline, pulling financial data directly into Sage Intacct and eliminating the rekeying and reformatting that introduce errors every cycle.
Misallocated expenses and budget overruns shouldn’t be discoveries you make three weeks after the fact. Built-in approval workflows and dimensional reporting catch problems while they’re still correctable.
Every VAR Sells the Same Software.
The Implementation Is What Separates Them
Half of DSD’s current consulting team were Sage Intacct users before they became implementers. They sat where you sit. They ran month-end close on systems that fought them at every step. They know what a bad implementation feels like because they’ve lived through them on the client side.
That experience changes how DSD builds your system. Chart of accounts, facility structure, reporting dimensions, approval chains: all configured around how your organization actually operates, rather than pulled from a generic template.
DSD builds custom PPD reporting for long-term care operators, salary and benefit allocation structures for physician groups, cross-facility financial consolidation for hospital management companies, and EMR integrations tested against your specific data. The result is a system your team recognizes on day one.
Social Proof
Caitlin Adams
DSD Business Systems
“We know what it is like to be in your shoes. Half of our consultants were Intacct users first. We have lived the pain points.”
Caitlin Adams
DSD Business Systems
My job is to be better than your payroll implementation. And at the end, clients tell us it was the least painful implementation they have ever been through.”
By The Numbers
36 to 86
facilities
In two years, with only two additional accountants and one AP hire added to the corporate team.
28 Years
Sage Intacct experience held by DSD's Director of Consulting for Sage Intacct.
50%
Percentage of DSD’s healthcare consultants that were Intacct end-users before joining the firm.
The Industry Is Consolidating.
Your Finance Stack Shouldn’t Be the Bottleneck.
Healthcare is a big small world. CFOs and controllers talk at conferences and across regional peer networks. When one management company in a region moves to Sage Intacct, others notice and start evaluating.
A generational shift is accelerating this. New leaders moving into senior finance roles expect real-time dashboards and automated consolidation. They’re not interested in hearing why the current system has worked for 25 years. They want to know why it still takes 18 days to close the month.
Organizations that aren’t actively growing through acquisition are at risk of being acquired themselves. The finance teams that can’t produce timely, facility-level financials are the ones that slow those deals down.
“If you are aware of something better for your operations, it is irresponsible not to act. Your residents and patients deserve it.”
Questions We Hear From Healthcare Finance Teams
Yes. The EMR Connect module integration pulls financial data directly from PointClickCare, Epic, MatrixCare, eClinicalWorks, NextGen, and other leading EMR platforms into Sage Intacct’s general ledger.
That eliminates the manual export-reformat-import cycle that introduces errors at every step. DSD tests the integration against your specific data environment before go-live, so the connection is validated for how your system actually operates, not just how the platforms are supposed to work together.
Sage Intacct is built for multi-entity environments. Each facility operates as its own entity with its own chart of accounts, while the system handles consolidation automatically at the corporate level.
DSD configures the dimensional reporting structure around your facility hierarchy, so leadership can view financials at the portfolio level or drill down to a single location without a manual consolidation step in between.
Approval workflows and expense allocation rules are set up per entity, which means misallocated costs get caught before they become a month-end problem.
For multi-location healthcare organizations, legacy systems like EMR-based accounting modules and Sage 100 were not designed for the consolidation demands of a growing facility portfolio. They work until they don’t, and the point of failure is usually acquisition.
Organizations on legacy systems end up compensating with additional headcount and manual workarounds that compound audit risk over time.
Sage Intacct was purpose-built for multi-entity accounting and scales without requiring a proportional increase in finance staff. The question for most organizations is not whether to move, but when the cost of staying put exceeds the cost of the transition.
Most of the time lost in month-end close comes from manual data gathering, intercompany reconciliation, and consolidation across facilities that should happen automatically.
Sage Intacct, configured by DSD around your specific facility structure and EMR environment, automates the consolidation layer and eliminates the export-reformat-import cycle that accounts for the bulk of that 18-plus day average.
Organizations that move from legacy systems to a properly configured Sage Intacct instance typically see close times drop to days rather than weeks, without adding to the finance team headcount.
See What Your Month-End Close Looks Like When It Takes Days Instead of Weeks
DSD’s healthcare consultants will walk you through a system configured for your facility structure and your EMR environment.
A conversation with someone who’s done this work from your side of the table, focused on your reporting requirements and your growth trajectory.
