About AdvanceAPractice

Operational support for practices that want sharper execution, steadier reimbursement, and clearer systems use.

AdvanceAPractice was built for owners and operators who already know the business side of the practice needs work, but do not want generic advice, vague strategy decks, or a one-size-fits-all billing pitch.

The approach stays close to real staffing pressure, real payer friction, and the way the practice actually runs from day to day.

Founder

Ryan Berg built AdvanceAPractice after 16 years in healthcare operations.

That background includes collections and denial management at OHSU, account leadership, EHR implementation support, and operational work that helped guide a multi-state behavioral health organization from $2M to $6M in annual revenue.

The point of that experience is not to sound impressive from a distance. It is to bring operational judgment into billing, credentialing, documentation, current-system use, and practice execution where the pressure is actually showing up.

How The Work Is Different

This is implementation-minded support, not abstract consulting.

  • Billing, credentialing, workflow, reporting, and systems use are reviewed as connected operating issues
  • Recommendations are shaped around what the team can realistically carry forward
  • The goal is usable structure, visible ownership, and fewer recurring breakdowns
Systems Fluency

The starting point is usually better use of the tools the practice already has.

AdvanceAPractice regularly works in environments that include AdvancedMD, athenahealth, TherapyNotes, SimplePractice, Epic, Valant, Kareo / Tebra, and ICANotes. The focus is not software fandom. It is making the workflow inside the system easier to carry.

Common Threads
  • Queue ownership and follow-up visibility
  • Documentation and billing handoffs
  • Credentialing and provider-readiness tracking
  • Reporting that leadership can actually use
Best Fit

The strongest fit usually comes from operational complexity, not company size.

AdvanceAPractice is especially useful for behavioral health organizations, PMHNP and psychiatry practices, therapy groups, and outpatient teams dealing with reimbursement pressure, readiness bottlenecks, workflow drag, or growth that is outrunning the operating model.

Practices preparing for growth

Useful when the next provider, service line, or location will put more stress on a workflow that already feels fragile.

Teams tired of repeated cleanup

Useful when billing, credentialing, and operations keep revisiting the same issue from different angles.

Leaders who want clarity fast

Useful when the issue is visible, but the underlying bottleneck is still hard to isolate.

Working Style

The operating philosophy is simple: find the pressure, trace the breakdown, tighten the workflow, and make the next step easier to carry.

01

Review the operating picture

Start with the symptom leadership is already feeling instead of forcing the practice through a generic intake script.

02

Identify what is repeating

Look for where the same payer issue, handoff, or readiness delay keeps returning.

03

Prioritize what matters most

Focus on the changes most likely to reduce friction and improve visibility first.

04

Support the implementation

Keep the work tied to the practice's real operating rhythm so the fix can last.

Start Here

If you want a more disciplined operating model without losing the practical tone of the practice, this is the right place to begin.

Reach out through the contact page, or use the workflow checklist first if you want a lighter way to sort through the issue.

Ryan Berg, founder of AdvanceAPractice
Hands-on operations

I have worked the billing queue, filled out the credentialing packet, and helped stand up the EHR — sometimes in the same week.

AdvanceAPractice is Ryan Berg. The work is revenue cycle, credentialing, documentation workflow, and day-to-day practice operations for behavioral health and outpatient teams where the business side has to actually hold together. You work with me directly — not with a vendor stack I picked up last quarter.

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Provider Pathways

Choose the stage where the practice needs operational help first.

Every stage creates a different kind of strain. The work looks different when a provider is trying to launch, grow without owner overload, stabilize collections, or add clinicians without letting payer setup and workflow discipline fall behind.

Starting a PracticeFor independent providers building the back office for the first time.What usually breaks: NPI, CAQH, PECOS, payer enrollment, fee schedule setup, first claims, and telehealth readiness all move out of sequence.How AdvanceAPractice helps: organize provider onboarding, payer enrollment, billing setup, and first-workflow readiness so the practice can open without avoidable delays.Plan your launchGrowing a PracticeFor owners who are doing too much as volume, staff, or provider count starts to grow.What usually breaks: follow-up gets inconsistent, reporting stays thin, queues age, and the owner becomes the fallback for every billing or ops question.How AdvanceAPractice helps: tighten handoffs, create reporting cadence, clarify ownership, and improve billing and workflow discipline before growth creates more rework.Build a stronger foundationManaging a PracticeFor established practices that are open, staffed, and collecting, but not performing the way they should.What usually breaks: denials repeat, aging A/R grows, payment posting lags, authorizations get missed, and leadership cannot tell where collections are losing momentum.How AdvanceAPractice helps: review revenue cycle performance, denial patterns, reporting gaps, and workflow ownership so collections and day-to-day execution get back under control.Review your revenue cycleExpanding a PracticeFor practices adding clinicians, locations, states, or payer complexity.What usually breaks: provider onboarding lags, group-to-individual linkage stalls, payer enrollment sequencing slips, and new growth adds more exceptions than the team can absorb.How AdvanceAPractice helps: coordinate credentialing acceleration, provider readiness, workflow design, and current-system cleanup so expansion does not slow reimbursement.Prepare to grow