News|Articles|November 3, 2025

The practice playbook for smarter medical billing

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Key Takeaways

  • Medical billing is now a critical factor in physician practice profitability, impacted by software costs and staffing challenges.
  • Practices must assess software investments for measurable value and revenue leakage control.
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Hidden fees, staff turnover and opaque contracts are quietly eating into your practice’s bottom line.

Medical billing is no longer merely a back-office task — it’s a critical profitability lever for physician practices. With rising software subscription costs, staffing challenges and increasing payer scrutiny of claims, practices must know not just what they’re spending on software, but whether that spend is delivering measurable value and controlling revenue leakage.

Data from the Medical Group Management Association's (MGMA’s) 2023 DataDive shows that single-specialty groups averaged an 8% first-submission denial rate — a signal that even healthy practices face risk.

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