Timely Filing Deadlines: A State-by-State and Payer-by-Payer Trap
A timely filing denial is often non-appealable, which makes prevention far more valuable than any downstream fix. Here’s how deadlines vary by payer, plan, state, and claim type.
A timely filing denial is often non-appealable, which makes prevention far more valuable than any downstream fix. Here’s how deadlines vary by payer, plan, state, and claim type.
Most practices have a denial ‘process.’ Few have a workflow that actually gets followed every time. Here’s how to build triage, ownership, SLAs, and a feedback loop that stick.
Clean claim rate is the earliest indicator in the billing pipeline. Here’s what it measures, why it predicts cash flow better than most other metrics, and how to improve it.
There’s no single universal benchmark, but AR Days in the 30-40 day range is strong performance for many practices. Here’s how it’s calculated, what counts as good, and how to actually improve it.
“Clean” from a scrubber’s standpoint and “payable” from a payer’s standpoint are two different tests. Here are the 10 reasons clean claims still get denied and how to prevent each one.