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Summit Orthopedic Physical Therapy

Denver, CO 8 clinicians 3 locations 320 patients/week
$340KAnnual revenue recovered

The Challenge

Summit was losing $340,000 annually to denied claims and prior authorization delays. With 8 clinicians across 3 locations, their 4-person billing team couldn't keep up with the volume of authorizations, and documentation backlogs meant clinicians were staying 2 hours late every day. Their denial rate had climbed to 28% — well above the industry average — and they were hemorrhaging revenue on appeals that took weeks to process.

The Solution

PRACTIS deployed all 7 AI staff members with a focus on Alex (Prior Auth) and Riley (Billing). Within the first week, Alex began processing authorization requests 73% faster and flagging expiring auths before they lapsed. Riley's pre-submission claim scrubbing caught laterality mismatches and missing modifiers that had been causing 60% of their denials. Morgan's voice-to-SOAP documentation eliminated the after-hours documentation backlog entirely.

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The Results

MetricBeforeAfterChange
Denial rate28%12.4%-56%
Documentation time/note42 min7 min-83%
Auth processing time38 min9 min-76%
Revenue per clinician/mo$26,800$35,200+31%
Staff overtime hrs/week16 hrs1.5 hrs-91%
First-pass claim rate72%93.8%+30%
No-show rate22%11%-50%
Patient retention61%84%+38%

Deployment Timeline

W1
Week 1

Data migration from WebPT completed in 36 hours. All patient records, templates, and payer configs transferred.

W2
Week 2

7 AI agents configured for orthopedic workflows. Voice documentation customized per clinician preference.

W3
Week 3

Parallel operation: AI notes matched manual notes at 98.2% accuracy. Denial rate already dropped to 18%.

W4
Week 4

Full deployment. Documentation backlog eliminated. Billing team reduced from 4 to 2 FTEs (reassigned, not laid off).

Inside the Platform

Prior Authorization Center

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Revenue Cycle & Billing

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Dashboard Overview

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AI Documentation Queue

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What They Said

"We went from staying until 7 PM every night to leaving at 5. My clinicians are happier, our revenue is up 31%, and I haven't had to hire the two additional billers I was budgeting for."
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Dr. Marcus Chen, DPT
Practice Owner
"Alex caught 14 authorizations that were about to expire in our first month. That alone saved us from losing coverage on $47,000 worth of visits."
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Sarah Kowalski
Front Desk Manager

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