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    ABA Billing

    Venture Signal

    Resetting therapy billing economics by capturing revenue that leaks through payer-driven complexity.

    What We're Testing

    Building an AI-native billing and cashflow layer that learns payer-specific rules, flags denial risk before submission, automates documentation and follow-ups, and drives denials to resolution—so practices improve collections without building or outsourcing heavy billing operations.

    The Problem and Why Now

    Therapy providers lose meaningful revenue to manual, fragmented billing workflows and payer-specific requirements. Operators either hire expensive in-house teams or pay large percentages to third-party billers—yet claims still get missed, denied, or delayed, creating both revenue leakage and cashflow timing gaps.

    Payer requirements continue to fragment while AI document processing and intelligent automation can now model payer-specific patterns, prevent avoidable denials pre-submission, and drive standardized resolution workflows. Behavioral health growth is creating thousands of new providers who need modern billing infrastructure from day one.

    Our Hypothesis

    If claim accuracy and denial resolution can be automated with payer-specific intelligence, then collections rise structurally and cash cycles compress—shifting billing from a labor-heavy cost center into software-driven operational leverage.

    What Must Be True

    That we can reliably increase net collections (and speed cash conversion) across multiple payers and states, while reducing manual touches per claim—without introducing compliance risk or degrading audit defensibility.

    Who We're Learning From

    Owners and operators of therapy practices and multi-location behavioral health providers managing complex billing across multiple payers and service types.

    Focus Geography

    Multi-state operations

    Current Research

    Where do ABA providers lose financial visibility or working capital across billing, collections, and reimbursement?

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    Workflow map

    The recurring work where accuracy, judgment, and continuity compound.

    01

    Documentation readiness

    Find missing or inconsistent clinical documentation before it becomes a billing problem.

    02

    Eligibility and authorization

    Confirm that services, providers, and dates align with payer requirements before submission.

    03

    Claim preparation

    Turn completed care into clean claims with fewer manual checks and handoffs.

    04

    Denials and appeals

    Identify preventable denials, assemble evidence, and focus follow-up where recovery is most likely.

    05

    Cash and audit visibility

    Connect payment status, unresolved claims, and audit exposure to the underlying work.

    Possible starting points

    Where this could begin.

    Pre-submission review

    Catch documentation, authorization, and coding gaps while they can still be corrected.

    Denial prevention

    Learn payer-specific failure patterns and surface the claims most likely to be rejected.

    Appeal preparation

    Assemble the record and reasoning needed to pursue high-value recoveries efficiently.

    Questions that decide the venture

    What we still need to learn.

    • 01Where can better workflow produce a measurable lift in net collections?
    • 02Which claim class offers the strongest first wedge?
    • 03What data and integrations are required to work inside the billing process?
    • 04What level of oversight do compliance and finance leaders require?
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