About AdvanceAPractice
Built by a healthcare operator for behavioral health practices that need more than generic billing support.
AdvanceAPractice was founded by Ryan Berg to help behavioral health owners connect billing, credentialing, practice operations, reporting, and follow-through into one practical operating model.
Sixteen years inside the business side of care.
AdvanceAPractice was founded by Ryan Berg, who has spent more than sixteen years running the financial and operational engine behind clinical practices — across outpatient rehabilitation, dental groups, and multi-state behavioral health. He is a Certified Professional Biller (CPB) and Certified Medical Office Manager (CMOM), but the credential that matters most is what he has actually done in the work.
Before founding the firm, Ryan led operations for a behavioral health group through a period of rapid growth — tripling annual revenue, building a team of more than thirty clinicians and administrators, and consolidating several independent practices into a single multi-state brand. Much of that work came down to payer strategy and revenue integrity: surfacing underpaid contracts, recovering receivables others had given up on, and building the reporting owners needed to actually see their own practice.
Earlier roles followed the same thread — rebuilding revenue operations for a multi-provider rehabilitation practice, directing finance for a dental group through a two-to-six clinic expansion, and managing a national portfolio of outpatient practices on the Clinicient platform. The constant across all of it: find the revenue leak before it reaches collections, then fix the process so it stays fixed.
Results that hold up.
The work is measured the way an owner measures it — in collected revenue, cleaner provider panels, and time the owner gets back. A few representative outcomes from the track record behind AdvanceAPractice:
+7.5% Average Reimbursement
Renegotiated commercial payer contracts across portfolios exceeding $10M in annual revenue — including agreements that had gone untouched for years.
$1.5M+ Recovered
Pulled back more than $1.5M in aged receivables that practices had already written off as uncollectible.
$2M to $6M
Built and ran the revenue and operations strategy that tripled a behavioral health group’s annual revenue while protecting margin through the growth.
Recognized in Portland
Named among the top medical billing and RCM firms in Portland — MediBillMD’s 2025 list and Nexus IO’s 2026 list, ranked #7 area-wide.
What AdvanceAPractice actually does.
Most healthcare business services are built around a single function. AdvanceAPractice is built around the connections between them — because a credentialing delay becomes a billing problem, and a billing problem is often an intake or contracting problem upstream. The work spans the full operating picture:
Revenue Cycle Management
Claims follow-up, denial root-cause analysis, payment posting, and aged-A/R recovery — worked as an ongoing process, not a monthly report delivered after the revenue is already lost.
Credentialing & Provider Readiness
CAQH, PECOS, and payer enrollment managed as part of the revenue cycle, so new providers become billable on schedule instead of sitting unproductive for months.
Payer Contracting
Reviewing and renegotiating commercial contracts — including the ones no one has looked at in years — to recover underpayments and lift reimbursement on a sustainable basis.
Practice Operations & Fractional COO
Hands-on operational leadership for owners scaling past their first administrative ceiling: clear ownership and execution across billing, intake, and systems without building a full back office.
Current-System & EHR Workflow
Getting more out of the EHR and clearinghouse the practice already runs — queues, templates, routing, and reporting — before anyone talks about replacing software.
AI & Automation
Practical AI, custom automations, and purpose-built tools designed around the systems a practice already runs — cutting manual work in reporting, documentation, and day-to-day operations instead of bolting on another generic platform.
The AAP Command Suite — one operating view.
For practices that want the work to be visible and accountable, the Command Suite brings billing, credentialing, and operations into a single operating view that sits alongside the systems you already use — not a replacement for your EHR or clearinghouse. It handles operational data only, with no clinical PHI, so it stays appropriate for operations teams. Six connected workspaces:
Revenue Cycle Command
Live status of claims, denials, A/R aging, and follow-up — what is moving and what is stuck, in real time.
Credentialing Hub
Every provider, payer, and expiring credential in one view, so enrollment never quietly stalls growth.
Executive Command Center
The owner’s overview of risks, blockers, and the tasks that actually need attention now.
Task & Project Ops
Clear ownership and next actions across billing, credentialing, and operations — follow-through that does not depend on someone remembering.
Integration Command
EHR, clearinghouse, and billing systems connected and monitored, so data moves cleanly between them.
Multi-Clinic Operator Console
Portfolio-level oversight for groups managing multiple locations or providers.
Who works with AdvanceAPractice.
Engagements are scoped for behavioral health and outpatient practice owners and clinical leaders who are carrying the business side of care and need it to run better:
- Psychiatry, PMHNP, and behavioral health groups managing complex payer relationships and provider credentialing.
- Therapy groups, psychology practices, and outpatient programs navigating multi-provider billing and intake.
- Owners scaling past their first administrative ceiling who need fractional operational leadership.
- PE-backed operators and groups consolidating practices or preparing for an exit who need clean revenue and operations.
If the business side of the practice is taking more time and attention than it should, that is the right reason to start a conversation.
Start with a focused conversation.
Twenty minutes is enough to understand whether AdvanceAPractice is the right fit — and to hear an honest answer if it is not.