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Remittance checked against claim and contracted rate before posting

The question this file answersWhich of our payers are quietly paying below contract — and would we know before the year-end review?

Fits: providers where every encounter generates coding and billing work.

Typical day

What the desk looks like today

Typical pattern, not a measured office — the healthcare playbook publishes no volume for remittance matching, and we supply none. A remit arrives; someone compares it with the claim and a rate sheet kept in a drawer or a spreadsheet. Underpayments surface in arrears, if a payer audit happens at all.

What changes

What Monday looks like after

At the weekly payer review, the billing lead looks at a short list of payer-and-code pairs paying below contract, each with the evidence attached, instead of a rate sheet and a hunch. Routine posting has already happened; the argument with the payer is still the lead's.

Typical, not a measured client result. Every figure here comes from the playbook source named below.

3 documents

claim, remittance, contract on one screen — a variant of the coding and denials file; no published figure for contract matching

Before: someone compares each remit to the claim and a rate sheet in a drawer. After: the three documents meet on one screen and only the variances wait for a person. The percentage stays on the coding file.

No published figure for this desk. The range lives on the parent file: Suggested codes on routine encounters; denials get the specialist →

How this file is built

Remittance-to-contract matching has no published benchmark. The 35–55% coding range (AHIMA, McKinsey, 2023) describes claim coding and is left on the parent file. Not a cash guarantee.

What we install

What we put in front of the systems you already run

Nothing replaces your billing platform — Waystar, Change Healthcare, Availity, whichever it is. Our coding-and-denials build gains a third document, the contract:

  1. the remittance is read, line by line
  2. each line is compared with the claim as submitted and with the contracted rate for that payer and code
  3. lines within tolerance post as a draft, while rate variances and denial codes appear on one screen with the three documents together.
What stays human — and what this will not do

Contract interpretation. Appeals. Deciding which underpayment is worth the fight.

Not a cash guarantee.

What can go wrong — and what we do about it

Loading contracted rates per payer, per code and per effective date is the real work; until it is done the build can match claim to remit but not to contract. Payer remittance files vary, and paper remits are read less reliably. The parent file's coding range is about coding admin, not recovered cash — deciding whether a variance is a fight or a write-off stays with a person.

What it costs to get there

The path: free 60-second estimate → free 20-minute review → paid audit of this one process (€1.5–3K, typically two weeks) → pilot with your people in the loop (€10–20K, weeks, not quarters). No transformation programme. Prices are public, on the services page →

Scoped in the audit — the playbook has no estimate for this exact desk.

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What does this mean in euros?

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Short process file. Same build as its parent file; the playbook has no separate volume or benchmark for this desk.

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