How much of your A/R is actually recoverable?
Three numbers off your aging report. The output separates what is realistically workable from what is already gone — because those need different decisions.
Estimate
Sitting over 90 days
$63,000
Likely past appeal
$12,600
Realistically recoverable
$12,600 – $27,720
A 25–55% band on the workable portion. Where you land inside it depends on documentation quality and payer mix — which is exactly why anyone quoting you a single confident figure is guessing.
About this estimate
How accurate is this?
It is a band, not a forecast. Recovery depends on payer mix, documentation quality, and how much of the balance is past timely filing — none of which a calculator can see. Treat the output as a rough scale check rather than a number to budget against.
Why does it show money as unrecoverable?
Because some of it is. Past a payer's timely-filing limit, an appeal generally requires documented proof of timely original submission — which practices with a stalled backlog usually cannot produce. A tool implying everything is recoverable would be a sales device, not a calculator.
What should we do with the number?
Use it to decide whether the backlog justifies dedicated hours. If the workable portion is meaningful, it needs protected time — ring-fenced internally or handed to a separate desk. It will not get worked in the gaps between patients.