Medical Billing Services
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
AR inventory and prioritization
Open claims are ranked by value, age, and payer behavior so follow-up effort lands where recovery odds are highest.
Cadenced follow-up
Every open claim gets a next-action date; touches are logged with payer references so history compounds instead of restarting.
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.
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Problem We SolveAR Over 90 Days
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Problem We SolveHigh No-Response Claim Volume
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Problem We SolveSlow Insurance Payments
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