About AdvanceAPractice

Founder-led operational support for practices that want the business side of care to become easier to run.

AdvanceAPractice was built for owners and operators who already know the practice needs help with billing, credentialing, workflow, systems use, or revenue-cycle follow-through, but do not want generic consulting language or a one-size-fits-all billing pitch.

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

Founder

Ryan Berg built AdvanceAPractice after 16 years in healthcare operations.

That background includes collections and denial management, 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, provider readiness, documentation flow, current-system use, and day-to-day execution where the pressure is actually showing up.

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How The Work Is Different

This is implementation-minded support, not abstract consulting.

The work starts with actual tasks and bottlenecks: claims follow-up, denials, enrollment tracking, workqueue ownership, reporting cleanup, provider readiness, documentation timing, and handoff gaps
The goal is not to hand back a polished deck. It is to make the next decision and the next action easier for the practice to carry
Current systems are reviewed before replacement pressure or tool hype takes over the conversation

"Ryan's unique ability to have executive and business-like vision as well as possess the details of daily operations has been and continues to be crucial in delivering, serving, and supporting our patients, employees, and contractors."

Tim Perez, PMHNP-BC
Co-founder, ValueCore Mental Health

What Working With AdvanceAPractice Can Look Like

The work is built around practical healthcare operating problems.

Examples include claims aging because follow-up is inconsistent, provider applications moving without clear readiness visibility, reporting that confirms a problem but does not explain it, and teams relying on side lists because the current system is not being carried cleanly.

Revenue and billing pressure

Review denial patterns, aging A/R, follow-up ownership, and workqueue behavior when reimbursement is underperforming and the team needs a clearer read on why.

Credentialing and readiness drag

Organize enrollment progress, track missing items, and reduce the lag between hiring a provider and getting them billable.

Workflow and systems friction

Review handoffs, queues, templates, reporting, note flow, and manual workarounds when the issue spans more than one role or department.

Current Systems

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 Review Areas

Queue ownership and follow-up visibility
Documentation and billing handoffs
Credentialing and provider-readiness tracking
Reporting that leadership can actually use
Task routing, templates, and note-flow friction

Who This Is Built For

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, outpatient specialty teams, practice owners, and operations leads dealing with reimbursement pressure, provider-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 pressure on workflows that already feel fragile.

Teams tired of repeated cleanup

Useful when billing, credentialing, and operations keep revisiting the same issue from different angles because the root problem has not been isolated.

Leaders who want clarity fast

Useful when the issue is visible, but the actual bottleneck is still hard to name and the team needs a grounded next step.

Working Style

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

Review the operating picture

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

Identify what is repeating

Look for where the same payer issue, readiness delay, or workflow breakdown keeps coming back.

Prioritize what matters most

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

Support the implementation

Keep the work tied to the practice's real operating rhythm so the fix can hold up after the first round of cleanup.

Recognition

Third-party recognition is useful, but it is not the main trust signal.

AdvanceAPractice was featured by MediBillMD in its roundup of medical billing companies. That is secondary to the real trust signal: operating detail, practical communication, and work that helps practices understand what is actually going wrong.

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Start Here

If you want clearer next steps around billing, credentialing, systems use, or workflow drag, this is the right place to begin.

Reach out through the contact page if the issue is already urgent. Use the workflow checklist if you want a lower-friction way to organize the problem first.

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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 launch Growing 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 foundation Managing 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 cycle Expanding 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

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