by Jason Farmer | Aug 1, 2026 | Revenue Cycle
Most payer contracts get read once, signed, and filed. The boilerplate inside quietly sets your rates, your risk, and your leverage for years. Key TakeawaysRead the amendment, recoupment, and termination clauses before the fee schedule, because that is where the risk...
by Jason Farmer | Feb 28, 2026 | Revenue Cycle
Most independent groups accept the fee schedule they were handed years ago and never ask again. Payers count on that. A data-backed request, aimed at the right contract, works more often than most owners believe. Key TakeawaysMany practices run on payer contracts...
by Jason Farmer | Mar 23, 2025 | Revenue Cycle
Denials rarely arrive as a crisis. They arrive as a steady leak that your team has learned to accept as the cost of doing business. It isn’t. Most of it is preventable, and the rest is winnable. Key TakeawaysInitial denial rates climbed to 11.81 percent in 2024,...
by Jason Farmer | Jan 9, 2025 | Revenue Cycle
The same dollar is worth ninety cents at check-in and forty cents in a mailed statement. Every practice knows this in the abstract. Few have built the system that acts on it. Key TakeawaysBalances collected at the time of service succeed 90 to 95 percent of the time;...
by Jason Farmer | Dec 30, 2024 | Revenue Cycle
You cannot manage what nobody measures. A handful of metrics, reviewed monthly, tell you nearly everything about the health of your revenue cycle. Key TakeawaysDays in A/R belongs between 30 and 40, with less than 10% of receivables older than 90 days. A net...
