— Contract Analysis

Your payer contracts are
underpaying you.

Most of it isn't in the denial queue — it's in the fee schedule. A contract analysis surfaces what you're owed versus what you're being paid, before you work a single appeal.

— The problem

Denials are visible. Underpayments aren't.

Denial management gets the attention because denials are loud. They sit in a worklist, they age in a bucket, they show up in your dashboard as something to be worked. Underpayments are quieter. They come in as paid claims, hit the posting queue, and close out at the contracted rate — except the contracted rate isn't what was actually negotiated.

In fifteen years of RCM work I've seen organizations lose more revenue to silent underpayments than to their entire denial write-off volume. The reason is simple: you can't appeal what you don't know to look for.

"The fee schedule discrepancy was there for three years. Nobody caught it because the claims were posting as paid."
— What contract analysis surfaces

Three things worth knowing immediately.

01
Where your actual reimbursement rate deviates from your contracted rate, by CPT code and payer.
02
Which payers and service lines are driving the largest underpayment exposure in dollar terms.
03
The lookback window available for underpayment appeals under your current contract terms.
— Why I use DenyZero for this

DenyZero's contract analysis tool does the comparison instantly — upload your fee schedule and your remittance data, and it maps the variances without requiring an EHR connection or a long implementation. For most organizations, that means you can have an underpayment picture within a day of deciding to look.

I point clients to it because it removes the "we need to scope a project first" barrier. You don't need a project. You need the number. Get the number, then scope what to do about it.

See where your
contracts are leaking.

No integration. No implementation project. Upload a fee schedule and get the picture.

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