Medical Billing Services
Old Accounts Receivable Recovery
A project-based attack on aged receivables — triage what is recoverable, work it hard before deadlines close, and document the closure of what is not.
Every practice accumulates old AR: claims from a departed biller’s era, a system conversion, a denial backlog nobody worked. The uncomfortable truth is that aged AR decays — appeal windows close, timely-filing limits pass, records get harder to assemble. The right response is a time-boxed project, not a vague intention to “work the old stuff.”
Our old AR projects begin with honest triage: every aged claim classified as workable, doubtful, or dead — because pretending dead AR is recoverable wastes money and delays clean books. Workable inventory then gets production-line follow-up, appeals, and resubmissions, with recovery reported weekly against the triage baseline.
Problems This Service Addresses
- Six- or seven-figure aged AR of unknown real value
- AR inherited from previous billers, vendors, or systems
- Balance sheets carrying receivables everyone privately knows are dead
- In-house teams too busy with current claims to touch the backlog
What’s Included
- Full aged AR inventory with claim-level triage classification
- Recovery workflows: status, resubmit, appeal, escalate — by claim class
- Deadline mapping so near-expiry claims are worked first
- Write-off recommendation files with documented reasons per claim
- Weekly recovery reporting against the triage baseline
Who This Service Is For
- Practices sitting on aged AR after a biller departure or vendor failure
- Groups cleaning up before a sale, merger, or system conversion
- Owners who want a real number instead of a hopeful balance sheet line
Risks and Operational Considerations
Recovery expectations must be honest: aged AR recovers at far lower rates than fresh claims, and anyone quoting a high flat recovery percentage sight-unseen is guessing.
Old AR projects are typically priced on recovered dollars or as a fixed project — the model is agreed before work starts.
How Our Old AR Recovery Process Works
Triage
The backlog is classified claim by claim: recoverable, doubtful, dead — with deadline dates attached to everything recoverable.
Production recovery
Recoverable claims are worked in deadline order through payer-specific workflows, with outcomes logged.
Clean closure
Unrecoverable balances get documented write-off recommendations, leaving books that reflect reality.
Old AR Recovery: Frequently Asked Questions
How much of our old AR can you recover?
Nobody can answer that before triage — and you should be skeptical of anyone who does. Recovery depends on claim age, denial mix, payer behavior, and how much documentation survives. Triage gives you a claim-level answer within the first weeks, before major effort is spent.
Is working old AR worth it, or should we just write it off?
Usually some of both. Triage typically finds a workable core worth real money and a tail that only pollutes reports. The project’s value is as much the documented, defensible closure of the dead tail as the cash recovered from the workable core.
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