Case Studies

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Every result below is from an actual client engagement — reported at 90 days post-onboarding. Practice names are withheld by request; specialty, size, and location are accurate.

31%
Avg. collections increase
18 days
Avg. AR reduction
67%
Avg. denial rate drop
60 days
Avg. time to measurable ROI
Orthopedic Surgery 📍 Dallas, Texas 4-physician practice · 2,800 visits/month

Orthopedic Practice Cuts Denial Rate from 14.2% to 2.8% in 60 Days

The situation: A four-surgeon orthopedic group had been with the same billing company for 6 years. Their denial rate had crept to 14.2% — nearly double the specialty average. The primary causes were global period violations, missing modifier 59 on same-day procedure combinations, and prior auth lapses for arthroplasties. $340,000 was sitting in AR over 90 days.

Before: 14.2%
2.8%
Denial Rate
Before: 47 days
19 days
Days in AR
Before: 81%
97.2%
Net Collection Rate
Week 1–2
Full EHR integration + 90-day AR audit. Identified $227K in recoverable aged claims.
Week 3–4
Prior auth workflow rebuilt. All scheduled arthroplasties cleared with auth before OR date.
Day 60
Denial rate at 3.1%. $189K recovered from aged AR. Days in AR reduced to 22.
Day 90
Denial rate 2.8%. Full AR under 30 days at 74%. Collections up 28% vs. prior quarter.

"We had no idea we were leaving this much on the table. Within 30 days of switching to RCMAXIS, claims were going out cleaner than they ever had. The AR cleanup alone covered the first year of fees."

— Practice Administrator, Orthopedic Surgery Group, Dallas TX (name withheld by request)

Mental Health / Behavioral Health 📍 Atlanta, Georgia 12-clinician group practice · 3,400 sessions/month

Behavioral Health Group Recovers $412,000 in Missed Collections Over 12 Months

The situation: A large behavioral health group practice with psychiatrists, psychologists, and LCSWs was billing through a generic medical billing company with no behavioral health expertise. The practice was systematically misbilling MBHOs as medical benefits, under-coding E/M services by psychiatrists, and failing to bill add-on codes (90833) for combined medication management and psychotherapy visits. Estimated revenue leakage: $34,000/month.

Before: 18.6%
3.4%
Denial Rate
Before: $412/visit
$541/visit
Avg. Reimbursement
Before: 53 days
24 days
Days in AR
Week 1
MBHO carve-out mapping completed for all 8 major payers. Billing entity corrected for 1,200+ patients.
Week 3
90833 add-on code workflow implemented. $28K/month in previously unbilled combined visit revenue captured.
Month 3
Denial rate below 5%. 6-month AR backlog worked down by 71%.
Month 12
$412K total recovery documented. Denial rate steady at 3.4%. Practice added 3 clinicians on strength of improved cash flow.

"Our previous biller had no idea what an MBHO was. RCMAXIS fixed our routing within the first week. The difference in cash flow was visible by month two — we went from payroll anxiety to expansion planning."

— CEO, Behavioral Health Group Practice, Atlanta GA (name withheld by request)

Gastroenterology 📍 Chicago, Illinois 3-physician practice · 1,600 procedures/month

GI Practice Adds $19,200/Month by Correctly Billing Screening-to-Diagnostic Colonoscopy Conversions

The situation: A 3-physician GI practice was billing all colonoscopy procedures with a single code regardless of findings. When a screening colonoscopy identified and removed polyps — converting the claim from screening to diagnostic — the practice was not applying the correct CPT code change, modifier PT, or -33 where applicable. This single error was systematically underbilling every polyp removal case.

Before: $187 avg
$299 avg
Colonoscopy Reimbursement
Before: 11.8%
3.1%
Denial Rate
Before: $0/mo
$19,200/mo
New Monthly Revenue Captured
Week 1
Coding audit of 3 months of colonoscopy claims identified 412 underbilled polyp removal cases.
Week 2–3
Corrected billing workflow implemented. Pathology coordination protocol established.
Month 2
$38,400 recovered from retroactive rebilling of correctable past claims within timely filing windows.
Ongoing
$19,200/month in additional revenue from correct screening-to-diagnostic conversion billing.

"One coding error — one — was costing us $230,000 a year. RCMAXIS found it in the first week. We'd been with our previous biller for four years and they never flagged it once."

— Managing Physician, GI Practice, Chicago IL (name withheld by request)

Pain Management 📍 Phoenix, Arizona 2-physician practice · 900 procedures/month

Pain Management Practice Recovers $178,000 in Aged AR — Practice Had Written It Off

The situation: A 2-physician interventional pain practice switched to RCMAXIS after their previous biller stopped actively working claims older than 90 days — effectively writing off all aged AR as uncollectable. RCMAXIS inherited $178,000 in claims between 90 and 180 days old at transition. The previous biller had classified these as "write-offs." Most were still within timely filing windows for appeal.

Written off: $178K
$143K
Aged AR Recovered
Before: 14.9%
3.7%
Denial Rate
Before: 61 days
21 days
Days in AR
Week 1
Full AR audit. 847 claims identified as potentially recoverable. Prioritised by payer timely filing deadline.
Week 2–6
Systematic appeal submissions. 6 peer-to-peer reviews with medical necessity support documentation.
Month 3
$143,000 collected from previously written-off claims — 80% recovery rate on worked aged AR.
Month 6
Forward denial rate at 3.7%. Prior auth workflow rebuilt. New claims processing within 24 hours.

"Our last biller told us that money was gone. RCMAXIS recovered $143,000 of it in 90 days. We didn't know you could do that. That recovery alone paid for two years of their fee."

— Office Manager, Pain Management Practice, Phoenix AZ (name withheld by request)

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