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 to $27,720
A 25 to 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.
That band came from three numbers you typed.
The width of it is the honest part: where you actually land depends on your payer mix, how the notes were written, and how much of the balance can still be proven timely. None of that is visible to a calculator, and all of it is visible on your aging report.
Send us the report and we will tell you which portion is genuinely workable, which is past appeal, and what the first month would involve. If the answer is that your backlog does not justify the help, we will say that instead. How the work itself runs is on the A/R recovery service page.
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.