Discover How Much Non-Billable Billing & Paneling Time Is Really Costing Your Practice

As a mental health professional, your primary focus is delivering quality clinical care. However, running a private practice often means trading billable client hours for hours of unpaid administrative work—tracking down CAQH attestations, reworking rejected insurance claims, and managing billing panels.

Studies show that behavioral health clinicians spend up to 20–35% of their working hours on administrative and documentation tasks. Every hour you spend on insurance paperwork is an hour you aren’t seeing clients or spending time with family.

Use the calculator below to see your practice’s monthly administrative opportunity cost—and find out how much revenue you could unlock by converting even half of those admin hours back into billable client sessions.

Administrative Opportunity Cost Calculator

See how much non-billable insurance and credentialing tasks are costing your practice each month.

$135
8 hrs
$10,000
Monthly Lost Clinical Revenue (DIY Admin): $4,320
Estimated Professional Billing Cost (10% Rate): $1,000
Estimated Net Monthly Opportunity Gain: $3,320

Understanding Your Results

  • Administrative Opportunity Cost: This is the total gross revenue lost each month while managing non-billable administrative tasks, CAQH attestations, and insurance paperwork instead of seeing clients.
  • Behavioral Health Billing Fee: The fee for our full-service specialty billing and administrative management (10% of allowed insurance reimbursements).
  • Potential Extra Net Income: By handing off billing and credentialing management to our team, converting just half of your saved administrative hours into billable client sessions easily covers the service fee and puts additional net income back into your practice every month.

Ready to Get 8+ Hours Back Every Week?

You didn’t go to graduate school to spend your evenings fighting with insurance portals. At Arkansas Mental Health Credentialing & Billing Services, we take the administrative burden off your plate so you can focus on your clients—and your life.

What we handle for you:

  • Comprehensive Billing & Claims Management: Full-service billing for commercial plans (Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield, QualChoice, Ambetter, Aetna, Cigna, UHC/Optum), Arkansas Medicaid (PASSE), and Medicare.
  • Medicaid & PASSE Authorization Support: Step-by-step assistance and instruction on requesting Prior Authorizations (PAs) and Retroactive Authorizations for Arkansas Medicaid and PASSE plans.
  • Acentra (eTrezzo) Portal Guidance: Expert instruction on completing and submitting medical record requests inside the Acentra Health / eTrezzo Arkansas Medicaid portal to maintain compliance and avoid claim denials.
  • Portal Setup & Federal Compliance: Complete provider portal registration, Novitas Solutions (Medicare) setup, EDI claims processing configuration, and ERA/EFT setup.
  • Credentialing & Profile Guidance: End-to-end insurance paneling and contracting support, along with expert step-by-step guidance on updating your CAQH and NPPES profiles.
  • Revenue Recovery & Compliance: Reworking claim rejections, managing aging A/R, and ensuring compliance with behavioral health CPT codes (e.g., 90837, 90791).

Or call us directly at (479) 310-0109 to discuss your practice’s needs.