Independent Diagnostic Laboratory
An independent lab processing high-volume diagnostic claims faced persistent underpayments, payer contract variance, and test code bundling issues — with limited reporting to pinpoint where revenue was leaking.
Underpayments, Contract Variance, and Bundling Complexity
High claim volume masked significant revenue leakage. The lab's prior billing operation lacked the payer contract analytics and code-level scrutiny needed to catch underpayments and bundling errors at scale.
Systematic Underpayments
Payers were reimbursing below contracted rates on a meaningful share of claims. Without automated contract comparison, underpayments accumulated silently across commercial and government payers.
Payer Contract Variance
Dozens of active payer contracts with different fee schedules, panel definitions, and modifier rules made manual reconciliation impractical and error-prone.
Test Code Bundling Errors
Incorrect bundling and unbundling of CPT codes triggered denials and underpayments — particularly on multi-test panels and molecular diagnostics where payer edit rules differed significantly.
Reporting Blind Spots
Leadership received aggregate collection reports but couldn't drill into underpayment trends by payer, test category, or referring provider — limiting their ability to act on data.
Expert RCM + Platform Visibility
Ascentiant deployed lab-specialized billing analysts and configured platform reporting to surface underpayments, contract variances, and bundling issues in real time.
Revenue Cycle Management
- Contract rate validation against expected reimbursement on every claim
- Underpayment identification, appeal, and recovery workflows
- CPT bundling and unbundling review for panel and molecular tests
- Payer-specific edit rule management and denial prevention
- High-volume claim scrubbing with lab-specific compliance checks
Revenue Cycle Operations Platform
- Underpayment dashboards by payer, test code, and time period
- Contract variance alerts when reimbursement falls below expected
- Clean claim rate monitoring with edit failure categorization
- Test category performance reporting for lab leadership
- Executive visibility into recovery progress and denial trends
Recovered Revenue and Full Reporting Control
Within the first 90 days, the lab recovered significant underpaid balances and achieved a clean claim rate approaching industry best-in-class levels.
“We knew we were leaving money on the table but couldn't see where. Ascentiant's contract analytics and platform reporting finally gave us the visibility to recover underpayments and prevent them going forward.”Revenue Cycle DirectorIndependent Diagnostic Lab · Northeast U.S.
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