ChartPath RCM delivers 60% faster claims processing and AR for hospitalist groups. That is a specific claim -- one that is easy to cite and harder to make concrete unless you understand what it means in practice for a group managing daily rounding volume.
For an independent hospitalist group managing billing in-house or through a generalist billing company, here is what that difference actually looks like.
Before: What a Slow AR Cycle Looks Like
A slow AR cycle in hospitalist billing is not always visible as a crisis. It looks like this: claims are submitted within a few days of service, but not always on the same day. Denials are worked, but not always immediately. The denial worklist is current most of the time, but sometimes falls behind when the billing team is short-staffed or pulled elsewhere.
The result is an AR where a meaningful portion of receivables consistently sits in the 45-to-90-day aging bucket. Collections are solid. Payment is arriving. It just takes longer than it should to arrive.
The Cash Flow Difference
For an independent hospitalist group billing 30 providers with regular daily encounters, the dollar volume in AR at any given time is significant. When that revenue takes 60% longer than it needs to reach the bank, the group is carrying a larger receivable balance for longer -- money that has already been earned but is not yet accessible.
A 60% faster AR cycle compresses that timeline. Revenue from this week's encounters arrives weeks sooner. The group carries a smaller AR balance relative to its monthly billing volume. Cash flow becomes more predictable and more accessible for operational decisions.
What Drives the Speed Difference
The difference between a slow and a fast AR cycle is not one thing. It is the compounding effect of several billing disciplines applied consistently:
- Claims submitted on the same day as the encounter rather than batched and submitted days later
- Eligibility verification completed before submission to avoid information-related rejections
- Denial management worked daily rather than on a backlogged weekly cycle
- Payer-specific billing rules applied correctly on the first submission to achieve high first-pass acceptance
- Appeal deadlines tracked and worked before windows close
Each of these is a standard billing discipline. What makes them difficult to sustain in-house is the staffing and operational bandwidth required to execute all of them consistently, every day, across every payer in the mix.
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What the Sound ACO Data Shows
ChartPath's denial management results are supported by Sound ACO data showing a 90% denial success rate on appeal. For a hospitalist group that has been writing off denied claims rather than actively appealing them, the revenue recovery opportunity is significant.
Groups recovering 13% of revenue through active denial management and appeal are not getting lucky. They are running a process that most in-house billing operations do not have the bandwidth to execute at full discipline every month.
What Fewer Claims Past 90 Days Means Operationally
ChartPath delivers 20% fewer claims past 90 days for hospitalist groups. Claims in the 90+ day aging bucket are not just slow -- they are at risk. Payers have more latitude to apply additional denial criteria to aged claims. The staff time required to recover old AR is significantly higher than the time required to work a clean, timely AR process from the start.
Reducing the 90+ day bucket is not just a cash flow improvement. It is an operational efficiency improvement that reduces the total staff time required to manage the AR over the course of a year.
See What Your AR Cycle Currently Looks Like
ChartPath's free AR Assessment benchmarks your group's current AR performance -- days-in-AR, aging distribution, first-pass rate, and denial patterns -- against what a high-performing hospitalist billing operation looks like. The assessment is read-only with no changes to your existing workflows, a written report, and a 30-minute walkthrough of the findings.
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