Where Cash Leaks Between Your Billing Systems | CercaLabs

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Cash doesn’t leak inside your billing system. It leaks between systems.

Your LIS knows the test was run. Your billing system knows what was claimed. The clearinghouse knows what was accepted. The remittance knows what was paid. Each one is individually fine. Almost nobody reconciles across all four, and that is where the money goes.

This asks about ten specific seams. It gives you a prioritized focus list, not a dollar figure. If you want the dollars, the calculator does that job. Nothing is sent anywhere.

How to answer

“Not Sure” Is The Most Useful Answer Here

A leak you know about is a decision. A leak you cannot see is a liability, because you cannot size it, staff against it, or tell anyone whether it is getting worse. Most organizations have more of the second kind than the first.

So answer honestly rather than optimistically. The output ranks what you cannot see above what you can, because that is the order in which they are worth fixing.

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Your result

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Blind spots

You cannot currently tell whether this is costing you anything

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Known gaps

You know it is not tracked, which makes it a decision rather than a surprise

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Covered

Reconciled today, and worth confirming the reconciliation still runs

Start here. You cannot see these

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Then these: known and untracked

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What this is not

Read The Limits Before You Act On It

It is not an audit

It is ten questions answered from memory. A real audit looks at your data and produces numbers. This produces an ordered list of where to look, which is a genuinely different and cheaper thing.

It gives you no dollar figure, on purpose

Any number we produced from ten yes-or-no answers would be invented, and you would reasonably stop trusting the rest of it. Sizing a leak requires your actual data.

Some of these are fine to leave alone

A leak that costs less to tolerate than to close should be tolerated deliberately. The point of naming it is that the decision becomes conscious rather than accidental.

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