Revenue cycle metrics
Clean claim rate
The share of claims paid on first submission without rework.
What it means in dermatology
Also known as: First-pass acceptance
It is the earliest available warning that something upstream has changed — a payer edit, a new provider's documentation habits, an eligibility process that stopped running.
Measured properly it excludes claims that were corrected before submission, because pre-bill scrubbing is exactly the control that should be catching them.
Why it matters to your revenue
This number falls weeks before collections do, which makes it the most actionable metric on the dashboard.
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