How to Reduce Account Receivable Days: Accelerate Insurance Reimbursements
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Excessive revenue leakage poses a severe risk for U.S. healthcare practices presently, many already function on negative margins. A 2018 survey conducted by Fibroblast of C-suite executives in healthcare revealed an alarming rate with which hospitals lose money or fall short of their income by hundreds of millions of dollars due to revenue leakage. What was frightening in the survey was that about 23% of respondents didn’t know the leakage costs their organizations bear. A reason directly identified with growing revenue leakages is the accounts receivable cycle. Understanding Account Receivable and How It Impacts Reimbursements The longer an account receivable goes unpaid, the less likely healthcare providers receive payment at all, and after crossing 120 days or 4 months, they can only expect 10 cents per dollar owed. As per the industry standards, the average account receivable days is 40, but it differs based on a multitude of factors, including the type of service or treatmen...