About The Founder
Ryan Berg: Founder, AdvanceAPractice
More than 16 years running the business side of dental, behavioral health and medical practices, from billing and payer contracts to hiring, finance and growth. Ryan brings that experience to the medical billing, credentialing and software work we do for telehealth, in person and hybrid practices today.
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I’ve Been Responsible For The Billing, The Staff And The Numbers Behind A Growing Practice.
I’ve spent more than sixteen years working inside healthcare businesses, from individual unpaid claims to the financial and staffing decisions behind a new location. My experience includes inpatient and outpatient billing, rehabilitation, multi site dental finance and multi state behavioral health operations. Along the way I’ve written the job posts, hired and let go of providers and office staff, and helped owners grow single provider offices into multi provider groups and contract clinics.
AdvanceAPractice Today
Follow The Problem Through To The Part That Needs Fixing
That experience shapes the work I lead at AdvanceAPractice.
- Denied As Out Of Network In one growing psychiatric practice, claims were being denied as out of network even though the payer had issued a welcome letter. I escalated the executed contract to provider relations and got the participating status confirmed.
- Missing Effective Dates In the same engagement, missing insurance effective dates were keeping claims from being sent and leaving patients with balances. Resolving those accounts also meant correcting how coverage was entered at the front desk.
Today, the work includes medical billing and payer contracts, provider onboarding, financial reporting, and software built around the steps staff actually need to complete. One example is a specialty-treatment scheduler that brings EHR reports, authorization dates, remaining units, capacity and follow-up into one place.
The purpose is practical: give the team the information it needs to act, and give the owner a clear account of the work, the unresolved problems and the next decision.
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 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
I managed revenue cycle for a multi-provider physiatry practice across outpatient clinics and an inpatient hospital unit. The work included professional and facility billing, payer appeals, credentialing, improving documentation and charge capture with clinical leadership, and 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 break-even forecasts, staffing plans, new-location models, clinic-level reporting and capital decisions behind four new locations. I also rebuilt patient collection workflows, and patient A/R came down $95,000 in the first year.
ValueCore Mental Health
Business Operations Manager. I helped consolidate independent practices into a multi-state group while annual revenue grew from $2 million to $6 million. I recruited, hired and led a clinical and administrative team of more than 30 clinicians and support staff, and managed AdvancedMD configuration across scheduling, clinical and billing functions. Reporting showed how providers, locations and services were performing, so ownership could make decisions as the business grew.
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 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.
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