An 11.8% initial claim denial rate means too many specialty practices are still treating denials like back-office noise instead of what they are: a direct assault on cash flow, staffing capacity, and compliance posture, according to MedCare
An 11.8% initial claim denial rate means too many specialty practices are still treating denials like back-office noise instead of what they are: a direct assault on cash flow, staffing capacity, and compliance posture, according to MedCare
The healthcare revenue cycle management market was valued at US$ 169.7 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach US$ 505.8 billion by 2035, growing at 11.54% CAGR according to healthcare RCM market sizing projections. That growth
Most advice on how to dispute a medical bill starts in the wrong place. It assumes the provider is the problem, the patient is the victim, and the only path forward is confrontation. That framing misses how
If you're managing contracts out of shared drives, old email threads, scanned PDFs, and someone's memory, you're not managing contracts. You're hoping the payer paid correctly. That approach breaks the moment cash gets tight, a denial trend
A referral lands on your desk late in the day. The patient needs your specialty care, needs it soon, and their plan shows out-of-network. Clinical leadership wants the case accepted. Finance wants to know whether the work
An 18% decline in professional reimbursement for gastroenterology services between 2018 and 2022, alongside an 11% drop in procedure frequency and a 7% drop in participating gastroenterologists, changes how a practice has to think about billing. This
If you own or lead a practice right now, you're probably balancing two jobs that don't fit neatly together. One is medicine. The other is protecting cash flow while staffing stays tight, payer behavior stays unpredictable, and
Your billing team is working denials every morning, your front desk is still chasing eligibility after the visit, and your physicians are asking the same question every month: why are collections lagging when volume hasn't collapsed? That
Claims adjudication cost providers more than $25.7 billion in 2023, and nearly $18 billion of that may have been unnecessary because many disputed claims were ultimately paid after review, according to a major hospital survey reported by
A familiar scene plays out in specialty practices every day. Your team submits a clean claim for a service you perform constantly, the EOB comes back, and the payment is nowhere near the charge or what your
