Cost Reduction Audits

Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management

Identify savings in healthcare operations, revenue cycle management processes, and medical practice expenses through structured cost audit and benchmarking.

Confidential Review

Subject-matter expertise

Practical Savings

Revenue cycle optimization

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Healthcare Service Areas

Medical

Coding Audit

Payer

Contract Review

Revenue

Cycle Analytics

Denial

Management

Practice

Operations

Credentialing

& Enrollment

Charge

Master Review

Yield

Improvement

Where Money Leaks

Where Healthcare Organizations Lose Revenue and Margin

Healthcare operations are uniquely complex — combining clinical, financial, and regulatory workflows that intersect in ways most general business reviews miss. Our healthcare-specific lens identifies leakage that generalist cost reviews overlook.

1

Denial Write-Offs Without Appeal

Claims denied by payers and written off without structured appeal — many denials are recoverable with proper documentation and follow-up process.

2

Under-Optimized Payer Contracts

Fee schedules that haven't been benchmarked or renegotiated — particularly for high-volume procedure codes and high-frequency payer relationships.

3

Vendor Spend Without Competitive Discipline

Medical supply, pharmaceutical, equipment maintenance, and outsourced service contracts that renew without benchmarking — often at above-market rates.

4

Staffing & Overtime Cost Creep

Staffing models, overtime patterns, and locum tenens usage that have become normalized without periodic review against productivity benchmarks and alternative staffing structures.

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Executive Overview

COMPREHENSIVE RCM AUDIT

Every engagement begins with a comprehensive audit of the existing revenue cycle, including current payables and claims-processing performance, to quantify where revenue is being lost and establish the opportunity before implementation.

The underlying process has demonstrated the ability to support up to approximately 98% first-time claims acceptance and, depending on the organization's current performance and circumstances, potential improvement in revenue realization of approximately 10–15 percentage points. These figures reflect the underlying process and are not a guarantee of results for any individual organization.

Revenue Cycle Performance Doesn't Improve by Itself

Healthcare organizations operate in one of the most complex revenue environments in any industry — payer rules, coding requirements, credentialing timelines, denial patterns, and patient-pay dynamics all create friction between service delivery and cash collection. Over time, even well-run revenue cycles accumulate process gaps.

Our review provides a confidential, external examination of your revenue cycle — from patient access through final collection — focused on identifying the specific process, technology, and workflow improvements that can improve net collections, reduce days in AR, and lower the cost to collect.

We don't sell RCM software or outsourcing services. Our advisory is independent, vendor-neutral, and built for healthcare leadership that wants a practical assessment without a product pitch.

Revenue Cycle Process Flow

Patient Access & Registration

Eligibility verification, prior auth, demographics capture

Charge Capture & Coding

Documentation, CPT/ICD-10 coding, charge entry accuracy

Claims Submission & Scrubbing

Payer edits, claim scrubbing, electronic submission

Payment Posting & Reconciliation

ERA processing, denial review, underpayment identification

AR Follow-Up & Denial Management

Aging resolution, appeal workflows, root-cause correction

Each stage represents a potential point of revenue leakage our review examines

Savings Potential

Where Savings May Be Found

Healthcare organizations consistently find material savings across operational and administrative cost categories.

Denial Rate Reduction

A structured review may identify opportunities to reduce denial rates through improved coding accuracy, payer-specific rules engines, and proactive denial prevention workflows. Each percentage point improvement can directly impact net revenue.

Days in A/R Improvement

A review may identify opportunities to improve revenue-cycle timing where workflow issues are present — through optimized billing workflows, automated follow-up sequences, and payer portal integration — which may reduce carrying costs and accelerate cash flow.

Payer Contract Optimization

Payer contract review may identify underperforming reimbursement terms using benchmarking data. Focused analysis on high-volume, low-reimbursement payers tends to surface the most actionable findings.

Coding & Charge Capture

Coding accuracy review may identify under-coded services, missed charge capture opportunities, and documentation gaps that affect reimbursement levels. Review findings depend on specialty, payer mix, and current coding practices.

Credentialing & Enrollment

Provider credentialing gaps, payer enrollment delays, and re-credentialing workflow bottlenecks that delay revenue recognition. Review identifies where lapsed credentials or incomplete enrollments may be blocking billable services.

Workforce Efficiency

Optimizing staffing models, reducing overtime dependency, improving scheduling, and rationalizing agency/temporary staffing spend to align labor costs with patient volume patterns.

Implementation

How We Help You Improve

Hands-Free Optimization

The review is designed to be minimally disruptive. Your team continues day-to-day responsibilities while structured analysis identifies operational improvement opportunities. We coordinate directly with payers, vendors, and revenue-cycle platforms.

Data Exchange & Onboarding

You share revenue cycle reports, payer contracts, denial data, and operational metrics. Our team handles the analysis, vendor coordination, and payer negotiation — presenting only actionable findings for your leadership to evaluate.

Practical, Subject-Matter Guidance

Your engagement is supported by experienced healthcare revenue cycle specialists who understand operations end to end. You get direct access to practical, category-specific judgment from initial discovery through implementation roadmapping.

Confidential by Default

All patient data, financial information, and operational findings are protected. Nothing is shared without your explicit direction.

Target Audience

Who This Is For

  • Healthcare CFOs and revenue cycle leaders seeking to improve financial performance
  • Hospital systems and large physician groups with $10M+ annual net patient revenue
  • Organizations where denial rates exceed industry benchmarks or days in A/R are trending upward
  • Practices that have grown through acquisition and are managing multiple revenue cycle platforms
  • Leadership teams considering outsourcing RCM and wanting an independent review of in-house versus outsourced economics
  • Organizations where RCM staffing costs are growing faster than revenue without clear ROI attribution
Our Approach

How We Help

We bring senior-level healthcare financial and operational expertise to every engagement — without the overhead of a consulting firm.

Confidential Review

A confidential review of your healthcare operations and revenue cycle — identifying practical findings supported by available data without disrupting daily operations.

Vendor-Neutral Analysis

We do not sell software, billing services, or staffing solutions. Our analysis is entirely objective — focused solely on what's best for your organization's financial health.

Actionable Roadmap

Each finding is delivered with a specific implementation recommendation, projected financial impact, and timeline — ready for your leadership team to evaluate and act upon.

Senior-Level Attention

Every engagement is led by experienced advisors who understand healthcare finance, revenue cycle operations, and the regulatory environment — not junior analysts.

Value Opportunities

Where Savings May Be Found

Our review identifies specific, measurable opportunities across the full revenue cycle and healthcare operations.

Charge Capture & Coding Accuracy

Systematic review of charge capture workflows, coding consistency, and documentation-to-billing handoffs that may be leaving legitimate revenue uncollected.

Denials & AR Aging Review

Denial pattern analysis, root-cause identification, and AR aging stratification to identify recoverable revenue and process improvements that prevent recurrence.

Payer Contract Performance

Comparison of contracted reimbursement rates against actual payments to identify underpayments, contract compliance gaps, and renegotiation opportunities.

RCM Vendor & Technology Stack

Review of billing systems, clearinghouse arrangements, RCM vendor contracts, and technology stack for cost, performance, and integration efficiency.

Credentialing & Enrollment

Provider credentialing and payer enrollment status review — identifying gaps that delay reimbursement, cause claim denials, or create compliance risk.

Operational Benchmarking

Days in AR, clean claim rate, denial rate, collection rate, and cost to collect — benchmarked against relevant peer data to surface performance gaps.

FAQ

Healthcare & RCM Review Questions

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Every healthcare organization has hidden margin opportunities — let us help you find them. Our confidential review is data-driven and led by senior advisors who understand healthcare finance.

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