Case Study
Contract Manager
Claims Manager

Uncovering $34M in Underpayments Through Contract and Claims Data Alignment

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Business Issue

A hospital faced systemic underpayments due to outdated payer fee schedules, with limited visibility into discrepancies between expected and actual reimbursement, making it difficult to identify, quantify and recover lost revenue.

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Without FinThrive

Outdated payer fee schedules drove systemic underpayments over multiple years

Limited visibility into expected vs. actual reimbursement masked revenue leakage

Inability to validate payments made it difficult to challenge payer accuracy

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Solution Highlights

Calculated accurate expected reimbursement across all payer contracts

Compared expected payments to actual remittances using integrated claims data

Uncovered systemic underpayment patterns tied to outdated fee schedules

Enabled finance and managed care teams to recover revenue with defensible data

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Customer Overview

A U.S.-based hospital system used FinThrive Contract Manager and Claims solutions to analyze reimbursement accuracy across a five-year period. By aligning contract and claims data, the team identified systemic underpayments tied to delayed payer fee schedule updates.

FinThrive Value

$34M

Identified $34M contractual payment discrepancy over five years caused by outdated payer fee schedules

60%

60% of the variance resulted from underpayments rather than denied claims

5 years

Historical payment inaccuracies validated and successfully recovered using expected-to-actual reimbursement analysis

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Revenue management without limits

FinThrive provides smarter, smoother revenue management to 4,100+ healthcare providers in North America, including 37 of the 40 largest hospitals and health systems in the U.S.