What is a healthy days-in-A/R benchmark?

Under 35 days for most ambulatory specialties, under 28 for primary care with strong patient-pay collections, under 45 for specialties with heavy commercial and prior-auth load (orthopedics, oncology). Hospital and health-system A/R benchmarks are different and tracked as net days in A/R against gross charges.

How fast does cash flow actually accelerate?

For most practices, 60 to 120 days. The first 30 days are diagnostic (audit, prioritization, scrub-rule rebuild). The next 30 to 90 are when A/R aging shifts visibly. By month four, the new claim flow is running at the target A/R while the legacy backlog has been worked down or written off cleanly.

Solution

Accelerate Cash Flow.

Name: Medonix MSO
Address: 300 Delaware Ave Suite 210, Wilmington, DE, 19801, US
Telephone: +1-302-520-5413
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Cut A/R days under 32 with prioritized worklists. A packaged Medonix solution running on AI agents, senior AAPC-credentialed coders, and a written SLA tied to your collections, typically achieved within 60 to 90 days of go-live.

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<32Target days in A/R

120dTime to target

-42%Avg A/R reduction

99%Posting accuracy

The problem

Why this is harder than most vendors make it look.

A practice with 50-day A/R is not waiting 50 days for the average claim. They are waiting 30 days for the easy half and 90 days for the hard half. The hard half is where the cash is. Medonix shrinks A/R by working that hard half, not by speeding up the easy half. Most clients land under 32 days within four months by fixing eligibility upstream, prioritizing the right claims downstream, and cleaning out the >90 bucket that quietly drags the average up.

How it runs

The four-step path to the outcome.

Every accelerate cash flow engagement runs the same four-stage path. Numbers and timelines are sized to your specialty mix and claim volume.

Step 01
A/R aging audit
Pull every open claim by age, payer, and likelihood-to-collect. Identify which buckets have real money versus which are write-off candidates.
Step 02
Worklist re-prioritization
A/R analysts work the queue by expected recovery, not by age. The 60-90 bucket usually pays best per hour worked.
Step 03
Eligibility upstream
Real-time eligibility checks at scheduling and registration kill the eligibility-related denials that create most of the >60 day A/R.
Step 04
Underpayment hunt
Line-item ERA posting flags every contractual underpayment so we can chase the difference instead of writing it off as adjustment.

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