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Accounts Receivable Follow-Up Services

Scheduled, payer-aware follow-up on every open claim — statused, escalated, and resolved on a cadence — so receivables stop aging into write-offs.

Insurance AR does not resolve itself. Claims sit in payer queues, get pended for information nobody sent, or simply vanish — and every aging bucket a claim slides through makes recovery less likely. Follow-up is unglamorous, repetitive work, which is exactly why in-house teams squeezed for time do it last.

Our AR follow-up service works open claims on a fixed cadence with payer-specific playbooks: status checks, missing-information responses, escalations, and reprocessing requests — each documented so the claim’s history is visible, not tribal knowledge.

Problems This Service Addresses

  • Claims aging past 60 and 90 days with no follow-up activity logged
  • Payer “we never received it” responses discovered months too late
  • Follow-up happening only when cash flow dips, not on a schedule
  • No documentation of prior calls, making every touch start from zero

What’s Included

  • Aged AR work queues with claim-level follow-up cadences
  • Payer status checks via portals, clearinghouses, and calls
  • Missing-information and development-request responses
  • Reprocessing and adjustment requests with reference tracking
  • AR aging trend reporting by payer and bucket

Who This Service Is For

  • Practices whose AR-over-90 percentage keeps creeping up
  • Groups with follow-up staff pulled constantly into other duties
  • Practices that inherited messy AR from a previous biller or system

Risks and Operational Considerations

Follow-up recovers claims that can be recovered — some aged AR is genuinely dead, and honest reporting includes recommending write-offs with documented reasons.

Consistent follow-up works best paired with denial management; statusing a claim is pointless if the resulting denial never gets worked.

How Our Accounts Receivable Follow-Up Process Works

  1. AR inventory and prioritization

    Open claims are ranked by value, age, and payer behavior so follow-up effort lands where recovery odds are highest.

  2. Cadenced follow-up

    Every open claim gets a next-action date; touches are logged with payer references so history compounds instead of restarting.

  3. Escalation and resolution

    Stalled claims escalate through payer channels; resolved claims close with documented outcomes feeding the aging report.

Accounts Receivable Follow-Up: Frequently Asked Questions

What percentage of AR should be over 90 days?

Commonly cited benchmarks put well-managed practices under roughly 15–20% of AR beyond 90 days, though payer mix matters — heavy workers’ comp or Medicaid managed care skews older. The more useful signal is your own trend: a rising over-90 share means follow-up is losing ground.

How is AR follow-up different from denial management?

Follow-up chases claims with no answer — pending, lost, or ignored. Denial management works claims with a negative answer. They overlap and feed each other, which is why we track both in one workflow but report them separately.

Ready to talk about accounts receivable follow-up?

Request a free billing assessment and get a clear, no-obligation review of your claims process, denial patterns, and accounts receivable.