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Regulatory update
New York Just Reopened the Door to Behavioral Health Networks — and Rewrote How You Walk Through It
A $2.5M state settlement is pushing payers to recruit more behavioral health providers right now. A parallel overhaul of Medicaid enrollment means the practices that get there fastest will be the ones who understand the new mechanics.
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Revenue cycle intelligence
The Denial Funnel: Where Your Recoverable Dollars Actually Sit
Why the denial rate is the wrong headline metric, and why the money is in the claims that are never reworked and the payments made below contract that nobody examines.
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Aug 24, 2026
Revenue cycle intelligence
Paid Is Not the Same as Owed
How underpayment against contract terms hides in plain sight, classified as a routine adjustment — and what it takes to detect it.
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Jul 24, 2026
Margin intelligence
The Question Your Finance Office Cannot Answer
For a given payer, service line and site of care: what you billed, what you actually collected, what it cost, and how your rate compares. Every element exists in your systems. Nothing assembles them.
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Jun 24, 2026
Specialty revenue cycle
Why MFM and Behavioral Health Denials Don't Look Like Everyone Else's
Prior authorization drives denial patterns in maternal-fetal medicine and behavioral health that a generic RCM benchmark misses entirely — and why treating them as a single "denial rate" hides the real problem.
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Forthcoming
The Emphanex Benchmark
An annual industry benchmark on denial, rate and margin performance, targeting a Q1 2027 release — free, methodologically transparent, and built to become the figure the field cites.
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