A delay between a completed therapy visit and claim submission can postpone reimbursement and leave less time to correct problems before a payer’s filing deadline. Track the visit-to-submission handoffs, identify the first stalled step, and verify the actual deadline for each payer rather than assuming one universal limit.
An accepted status may confirm receipt by an intermediary, not necessarily that the payer has the claim in its adjudication system. Check the transaction status, payer routing, and required electronic-claim enrollment before treating the claim as received.
Physical therapy owners can start with five billing measures: submission lag, rejections and denials, AR aging, payment realization, and open exceptions. Each measure needs a consistent definition and a next action.