AR aging (accounts receivable aging) is a breakdown of a medical practice's outstanding claims by how long they have been unpaid — typically segmented into 0–30, 30–60, 60–90, and 90+ day buckets — used to assess billing health and predict collection risk.
AR aging categorizes every open claim or patient balance by the number of days elapsed since service date or claim submission, revealing the distribution of a practice's receivables across standard time buckets: current (0–30 days), 30–60, 60–90, and 90+ days outstanding. Claims in the 90+ day bucket represent the highest collection risk — payer filing limits, exhausted appeal rights, and patient financial hardship all make these balances progressively less recoverable over time. A healthy outpatient practice typically aims to keep AR over 90 days below 20–25% of total AR; concentrations above 30% signal systematic billing workflow problems, payer adjudication issues, or collection process failures. AR aging is not just a snapshot metric — the trend is as important as the current value; a practice whose 90+ day bucket is growing month over month is experiencing a deteriorating billing cycle that will affect cash flow within 60–90 days if unaddressed. Harine Management surfaces AR aging by payer and provider in daily-updated dashboards so finance teams can identify concentration and trend issues before they compound into write-offs.
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