Value calculator

What could preventing denials be worth?

Estimate the value of RCx and RemitIntel. Start with your specialty and monthly volume; everything else is prefilled with typical values you can adjust.

Aptarro Value Calculator

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Your practice

Practice profile

About your practice

Practice name

Specialty

Sets typical rules per encounter, the automation rate and the denial benchmark.

EMR vendor

Practice management system

Number of providers

Revenue cycle volumes

Monthly

Encounters per month

Average encounter value

Average daily revenue

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Encounters × value ÷ 30

Facility type

Defaults the cost of capital.

Cost of capital

Preventable denials

The core of the model

TodayCurrent preventable denial rate

Share of encounters denied for reasons that could have been caught before submission.

RCxAverage preventable denial rate with RCx

Expected preventable denial rate once RCx pre-submission rules and autofix are live.

RemitIntelAdditional denials prevented by RemitIntel

Share of the denials remaining after RCx that remittance intelligence feeds back into new rules and stops.

Today

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With RCx

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+ RemitIntel

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Denial economics

What each denial costs

Cost to work one denial

$25 per denial worked, excluding appeals (Becker's).

Denied dollars never recovered

Default 35% is the low end of AHIMA's 35–60% range. Change Healthcare reports up to 65%.

Preventable denial dollars / month

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Encounters × value × denial rate

Include protected revenue in the total. Turn off for a savings-only view.

Labor and RCx operations

Autofix and cash flow

Loaded staff rate

$/ hr

Loaded benefits run about 30% above hourly.

Time to fix one edit

min

RCx automation rate

Share of charges that need no manual review with RCx.

Average rules per encounter

From Aptarro edit data by specialty.

AR day improvement

days

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Your estimated value

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Total value / month

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Annual value

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Over 12 months

Denials prevented

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Per month

Preventable denials removed

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Preventable denial rate, today vs. with Aptarro

RCx stops denials before submission. RemitIntel reads payer remits and closes the gaps that remain.

TodayRCxRCx + RemitIntel

TodayWith RCxWith RCx + RemitIntel

Savings by opportunity area

Monthly value attributed to each product. Hover a bar for the split.

RCxRemitIntel

Soft value created

Increased staff satisfaction, leading to less turnover.
Improved provider productivity and satisfaction, with less time spent working with coders and billers.
Increased coding accuracy, resulting in fewer audits.

What could preventing denials be worth?

Your practice

Practice profile

Revenue cycle volumes

Preventable denials

Denial economics

Labor and RCx operations

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Your estimated value

Preventable denial rate, today vs. with Aptarro

Savings by opportunity area

Soft value created

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