Cost & Pricing Resources
Old AR Recovery Pricing
AR recovery projects price on contingency or as fixed projects — with triage-first scoping and clean recovery definitions separating fair engagements from disputes.
Old AR projects have natural pricing logic: the work is finite, success is measurable in recovered dollars, and risk allocation is negotiable — which is why contingency (percentage of recovered dollars) dominates, with fixed project pricing appearing where inventories are well-characterized. The fairness lives in the setup: honest triage before promises, recovery definitions in writing, and reporting that shows the burn-down claim by claim.
Contingency structures
Vendors work the inventory and earn a defined share of recoveries — observed market ranges run wide (commonly 15–35%) with claim age, documentation quality, and payer mix setting position. Aged, messy inventories price toward the top because effort-per-recovered-dollar rises steeply; recent, well-documented backlogs price lower. Tiered structures (higher shares on older buckets) match effort economics honestly.
Fixed and hybrid project pricing
Well-characterized backlogs sometimes fit fixed project fees — triage plus defined production over a set term — appealing when the practice wants budget certainty and believes in the inventory. Hybrids (modest base plus reduced contingency) split risk when neither party wants it all.
The terms that prevent disputes
Recovery definitions (payments received during the term, attributable to the vendor’s work — with attribution rules for claims both parties touch), reporting cadence and claim-level visibility, term length and tail provisions (recoveries arriving after term end), and write-off recommendation handling all belong in writing before work begins. Every AR recovery dispute traces to a definition that was not.
Pricing note: Ranges discussed on this page are industry observations for educational context — not guaranteed market rates and not our quoted prices. Actual pricing for your practice depends on the factors listed here and comes from your real numbers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do recovery vendors insist on triage before quoting?
Because inventory composition is everything: two backlogs of identical total value can differ tenfold in recoverable dollars depending on age, denial mix, and deadline status — and any vendor quoting recovery percentages sight-unseen is guessing at your expense or theirs. Triage-first is the marker of an honest engagement; it also gives you a claim-level picture worth having regardless.
What happens to recoveries that arrive after the project ends?
Tail provisions decide: appeals filed during the term often pay after it, and fair contracts define a tail window during which those attributable recoveries share per the agreement — with claim-level documentation making attribution auditable. Undefined tails become disputes; defined ones are bookkeeping.
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