Payer Relations

QuickIntell's payer relations guides give revenue cycle leaders, contract managers, and CFOs a working reference for the two disciplines that decide whether a contract's promised rates actually land in the bank: contract negotiation and underpayment recovery. Each guide is paired with a real production capability inside QuickIntell — Contract Management (rate modeling, fee-schedule loading, payer scorecards) and Revenue Integrity (variance detection, dispute letter generation, recovery tracking) — so the workflows you read here are the workflows our customers run against their own 835 payment data.

The recovery KPIs are concrete and reproducible. Practices that operationalize a daily underpayment sweep typically recover 0.8%–2.0% of net revenue that was previously written off as silent underpayments — for most groups that translates to $50K–$250K+ per year — at a 45%–60% recovery rate on disputed dollars. Variance detection runs daily against every paid claim coming off the 835, so cases land inside the prompt-pay window instead of 30–90 days late. Twelve prompt-pay states are loaded out of the box (AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, NJ, NY, PA, TX) on top of the federal Medicare clean-claim baseline, with deadline days, statutory interest rates, and clean-claim definitions wired into the dispute workflow. Every dispute letter the system generates cites the controlling statute, the deadline, and the interest accrued from the clean-claim acknowledgment date.

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