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Revenue Leakage

Revenue leakage is the difference between what a healthcare provider should have collected and what was actually collected, due to coding errors, missed charges, denials, underpayments, and write-offs.

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Revenue leakage is the difference between what a healthcare provider should have collected and what was actually collected, due to coding errors, missed charges, denials, underpayments, and write-offs. This concept connects to ASP-RCM's broader healthcare RCM operating discipline through capability pages on autonomous coding, denial prediction, eligibility verification, prior authorization automation, and HCC risk adjustment, plus specialty service pages spanning hospital, FQHC, behavioral health, ABA, physician group, and 19 other specialty verticals.

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