About The Founder
Ryan Berg: Founder, AdvanceAPractice
16+ years in professional billing, outpatient revenue cycle, multi-site finance and behavioral health operations. Behavioral health runs deepest.
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Practice Work Depends On People
I know what it’s like to work beside an owner while claims, payer files, staff questions and patient needs are all moving at once. One more report saying something’s late rarely helps. The practice needs someone who’ll take the problem on and keep after it until there’s a real answer.
That’s the work I’ve done for more than sixteen years, in professional billing, outpatient rehabilitation, multi-site dental finance and multi-state behavioral health. It’s also why we publish prices for defined projects, and why any work that depends on your practice gets its full scope in writing.
The most useful experience came from doing that work next to owners, clinicians and administrative teams while patients were still being seen. The practice still had to run.
Why AdvanceAPractice
Know Who Is Doing The Work
Most owners who call us have already been through this once. They chased three companies for a quote, waited a week for each, and then found out the step that mattered was billed separately. Worse, the work ended up somewhere they couldn’t reach, handled by someone who’d never seen their contracts. We work to a simpler standard. Defined work has a published price, and anything more complex gets a written scope that spells out any material limit or added cost before you commit.
Behavioral health is our deepest specialty. It isn’t our only one. We also handle credentialing, billing, revenue cycle and operations work for physicians and medical practices across specialties, and wherever we’re working, the people running the practice should get clearer information and follow-through they can count on.
We do the work here, with a team based in the United States. Nothing’s outsourced or sent overseas. The person who files your application follows it, and that’s who you reach with a question.
Career Experience
Experience From Claims Work To Practice Leadership
OHSU
Professional billing and collections. I worked individual claims, and there’s no better grounding in how a practice actually gets paid.
Clinicient
I worked with outpatient rehabilitation and specialty practices nationwide and watched the same revenue cycle failures repeat across different systems and states.
Rehabilitation Medicine Associates
revenue cycle work for a multi-provider physiatry practice across outpatient and hospital professional billing, including recovering A/R the practice had already written off.
Timber Dental
Finance Manager. The group grew from two clinics to six while I worked with ownership on new-location models, clinic-level reporting and capital decisions. Patient A/R came down $95,000 in the first year.
ValueCore Mental Health
Business Operations Manager. Annual revenue grew from $2 million to $6 million during a multi-state consolidation, and I led a clinical and administrative team of more than 30.
AdvanceAPractice
I founded it to give independent practices that same operating support, from a United States team that stays with the work instead of closing a ticket.
Areas Of Depth
Revenue Cycle Management
Behavioral health billing, from eligibility and claims through denials, appeals and pushing payers when a claim stalls, plus reports that show an owner what’s actually happening.
Credentialing & Payer Enrollment
Commercial and Medicaid enrollment for psychiatric providers. We keep CAQH/DataSpring aligned, manage the follow-up, escalate files that stall and plan panels for groups that are growing.
Custom Software & Automation
Off-the-shelf software doesn’t cover everything. We build what’s missing, like data feeds out of EHRs with no API, authorization tracking, scheduling apps and workflow automation sized for a small practice.
Practice Operations & Finance
Designing how work moves from intake to collections, how the team communicates and how the money gets reported, so everything doesn’t have to go through one person anymore.
Based In Portland, Serving Practices Nationwide
Ryan’s based in Portland, Oregon, and works with practices across the United States. Oregon payers are home territory. Nationwide, we work directly with owners, physicians, PMHNPs, medical directors and administrators.
Outside work, Ryan has volunteered with American Red Cross disaster relief since 2005. That work reinforced a lesson that carries into practice operations: stay calm, be useful and follow through when people are already carrying a lot.
Learn more on the About page, review practice results and case studies, or connect with Ryan on LinkedIn.
Next Step
See What It Would Cost Your Practice
Every service has a published price and a written scope. Not sure which one fits? Ask, and we’ll point you to the right one.