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Revenue cycle work
done to your rules

US healthcare revenue cycle administration: eligibility and benefits verification, claim preparation and submission, denials and appeals, coding support and patient billing enquiries.

Your organisation operates under HIPAA, so access, minimum necessary use and workforce training are configured to your policies before any record is opened.

SystemsYour practice management and EHR

Work happens in your systems under your access controls and your audit logging.

PrivacyTo your policy

Access is scoped to the minimum necessary for each task, individually named and revocable by you.

PayersFollowed, not guessed

Payer rules and edits are documented per plan rather than carried in one person's head.

BaselineMeasured first

Denial mix, ageing and touch counts are measured on your own accounts before any target is agreed.

What we run

The administrative half of getting paid

Clinical quality does not collect a claim. Most of what delays payment is administrative: an eligibility check nobody ran, a modifier the payer changed, an appeal that missed a filing window.

Eligibility and benefits verification

Coverage, plan, benefit and authorisation status checked ahead of the visit through payer portals and clearing house tools, with the findings written back into the record the front desk uses.

Prior authorisation requirements are flagged before service rather than discovered in a denial, which is the cheapest place to fix a claim.

Fewer avoidable denials, because the check happened before the visit.

Charge entry and claim submission

Demographics, charges and modifiers entered, claim scrubbing worked to clean, and electronic submission with rejection queues cleared the same shift.

Clearing house rejections are treated separately from payer denials, because they are quick to fix and are frequently left to age alongside genuine disputes.

Claims that leave clean and rejections that do not sit for a week.

Denials and appeals

Denials worked by reason code with a documented action per code, corrected claims resubmitted, and appeals prepared with the clinical documentation your team supplies.

Filing deadlines are tracked per payer, because the appeal that is never sent is a write-off nobody records as a decision.

Denials worked by cause, with the deadline visible on every one.

Coding support

Coding review and support alongside your certified coders: documentation queries prepared, code and modifier checks against payer policy, and edit resolution.

Where documentation does not support a code, the query goes to your clinician. We do not close that gap by choosing a code that will pay.

Coding queries raised properly rather than resolved conveniently.

Payment posting and reconciliation

Remittance advice posted, contractual adjustments applied, underpayments against the fee schedule identified, and unapplied cash reconciled to the bank.

Underpayments are reported as a pattern per payer and per plan, which is how a systematic contract issue becomes visible.

Posted cash that reconciles, and underpayments that get noticed.

Patient billing enquiries

Statement queries, balance explanations, payment plan administration within your policy, and financial assistance signposting to your own programme.

Calls are handled to your scripts and your escalation rules, and anything touching clinical advice or a complaint is routed to your staff.

Patients who get a clear answer without being transferred twice.

How a revenue cycle engagement runs

StepOneAssess

The current position from your own data: ageing by payer, denial mix by reason code, rejection volumes, touch counts per account and the queues nobody has time to work.

Alongside it, the privacy and access position, because the practical constraint on this work is what your policies allow, not what a process design would prefer.

You receive:

A findings and access report

Denial and ageing analysis by payer and reason, the queues where value is sitting, and a documented view of the access each task needs.

Yours to keep, and useful even if the work stays in house.

StepTwoConfigure

Roles scoped to the minimum necessary per task in your practice management system and EHR, workforce training completed to your policies, and the physical and technical controls you require put in place before go-live.

Payer rules, edits and filing windows are documented per plan, so the process does not depend on the memory of whoever has been doing it longest.

You receive:

Access and rules in place

Named accounts scoped per task with your logging enabled, training records against your policy set, and a payer rule library your team can read.

Nothing is opened before the access design is signed off by your privacy officer.

StepThreeTransition

Work moves by queue, usually starting with rejections and eligibility because they are rule-driven and fast to verify, with quality checked on every account for the first tranche.

Denials and appeals move last, because they need the payer rule library and your clinical documentation route working first.

You receive:

Queue by queue sign-off

Each queue released only after its quality check holds for an agreed period, with a route back to your team available until it does.

Defects from the first tranche are written back into the work instructions rather than corrected verbally.

StepFourOperate

Steady state: daily queue work, rejection clearance each shift, denial working by reason code, appeals to deadline, and weekly quality sampling by someone outside the production team.

Denial causes are pushed upstream to registration, authorisation or documentation, because working the same denial monthly is not a service.

You receive:

A monthly service review

Ageing and denial mix against the baseline, causes traced upstream with owners, appeal outcomes, quality sample results, and any access or privacy exception logged.

Each recurring cause carries an action and a date, including the ones that belong to your front desk.

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Coverage

What we handle, and where we stop

The last column is deliberate. Clinical judgement, final coding sign-off and anything that changes a patient's care stay with your licensed and certified staff.

Healthcare BPO Services coverage
FunctionScopeCadenceStays with your staff
Eligibility Coverage, benefits, authorisation requirements ahead of serviceDaily, ahead of scheduleClinical necessity decisions
Charge and claim Demographics, charge entry, scrubbing, electronic submissionDailyFinal coding sign-off
Rejections Clearing house rejection queues, corrections, resubmissionEvery shiftPolicy exceptions
Denials Working by reason code, corrected claims, appeal preparationDaily to filing deadlinesClinical documentation and appeal signature
Posting Remittance posting, adjustments, underpayment identificationDailyContract renegotiation decisions
Patient billing Statement queries, balances, payment plans within your policyBusiness hours you setComplaints and clinical questions
Reporting Ageing, denial mix, cause analysis, quality samplingWeekly and monthlyAcceptance of write-off decisions

We do not present ourselves as a substitute for your compliance function. Your privacy officer sets the rules, and our part is to work inside them and to log it when something does not fit.

Privacy

Minimum necessary is a design decision

Protected health information is easiest to handle safely when the process is built so that most of the team never needs to see most of it. That is an access design problem, and it is solved before go-live or not at all.

So each task is scoped to the fields and the accounts it genuinely requires, accounts are named individuals inside your own systems with your logging switched on, and anything that needs wider access is raised as an exception rather than granted quietly.

Ask for an access review
  • Scoped per taskRoles are built from the task list, so eligibility work does not carry the access that claim editing needs.
  • Named and loggedEvery account is an individual inside your systems, revocable by you, with actions landing in your audit trail rather than only in ours.
  • Exceptions raisedWhere a task cannot be done within its scope, the gap is reported to your privacy officer instead of being worked around.

Your organisation holds the compliance obligation. This describes how we work inside your policies, not a certification of our own.

Questions we get asked

Before moving revenue cycle work

Are you HIPAA compliant?

Compliance sits with your organisation as the covered entity, and any vendor claiming to hand you compliance is overselling. What we provide is a business associate relationship, work performed inside your systems under access you control, workforce training to your policies, and an exception log when something does not fit. Your privacy officer reviews and signs off that design before go-live.

Do you replace our coders?

No. Coding support means documentation queries, payer policy checks and edit resolution alongside your certified coders. Final code assignment and sign-off stay with them, and where documentation does not support a code we raise a query rather than choose one that pays.

How do you handle payer rules that change constantly?

By keeping them written down per payer and per plan, with the source and the date on each rule, so a change is an update rather than a rediscovery. The alternative is what most teams run on, which is the memory of one experienced person and a bad month when they leave.

Can you work only the denial backlog?

Yes, and it is a common first engagement. A backlog is bounded, it is measurable, and working it tells you more about where your denials actually come from than an assessment would. It also has a filing deadline attached, so it is the piece where delay is most expensive.

Will patients be speaking to an offshore team?

That is your decision to make openly rather than ours to hide. Patient contact work can stay entirely with your staff, sit with our team under your scripts, or be split by call type. What does not work is a split nobody has documented, because then a patient gets a different answer depending on who picks up.

Claims workedto your rules.

Start with an access review and a denial analysis on your own data. Both are short, both produce documents you keep, and neither requires moving work to find out whether it is worth moving.

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