Resources
The bottlenecks that cost you most.
Straight, specific guides to the spots where behavioral health revenue leaks — denied claims and appeals, continued-stay reviews, aged AR, and what it costs to fix them — for PHP, IOP, residential, and detox programs. Written by people who came up inside behavioral health billing.
Denial prevention
How do behavioral health facilities prevent denials before they happen?
Recovery is cleanup; prevention is cheaper. How behavioral health facilities stop denials upstream — eligibility, authorization, and medical-necessity checks before the claim goes out, not appeals after it.
Workflow automation
How can a behavioral health facility automate its revenue-cycle workflow without replacing its EHR?
You don’t need a new EHR to fix one broken workflow. How behavioral health programs automate the seams where revenue leaks — eligibility, authorization, documentation, double-entry — on top of the systems they already run.
Denials & appeals
How do behavioral health facilities recover denied claims?
The end-to-end playbook for denied behavioral health claims — why they get denied, denials vs. rejections, how appeals work, and which to recover first.
Denials & appeals
Why did my continued-stay (concurrent) review get denied — and how do I appeal it?
Continued-stay and concurrent review denials are where behavioral health revenue leaks fastest — why they happen, what they turn on, and how to appeal before the window closes.
Denials & appeals
Can you still recover a behavioral health claim past the timely filing deadline?
A timely-filing denial isn’t the end of the claim. When you can still appeal, what counts as a valid exception, and how to prove you filed on time.
Pricing & contingency
What is contingency (percentage-of-collections) RCM for behavioral health, and what does it cost?
What “paid only on what we collect” really means — how percentage-of-collections RCM works for behavioral health, what it typically costs, and what to check before you sign.
Aged AR recovery
How do you recover old or aged accounts receivable at a treatment center?
Writing off old claims by age leaves money on the table. How to recover aged AR — segment the aging report, work no-response vs. denied claims, and triage by the window left.
Aged AR recovery
What’s a normal denial rate, days in AR, and clean-claim rate for a behavioral health facility?
There’s no clean BH-specific benchmark for denial rate, days in AR, or clean-claim rate — what the credible cross-industry numbers show, and how to read your own against them.