11.8%
Initial claim denial rate, 2024
Healthcare · Hospitals & Physician Clinics
Revenue cycle complexity shouldn't cost you what payers already won't pay.
Hospitals and physician clinics operate on margins that leave no room for billing errors, denial backlogs, or close cycles that stretch into weeks. With denial rates rising and reimbursement timelines extending past two months, the financial infrastructure running behind the front desk matters more than ever — including how clinical data moves from your EHR into NetSuite.
40%+
Report 2+ months to receive reimbursement
<30 days
Target Days in A/R
$360B
Annual savings possible with automation
25%
Jump in net revenue leakage, 2025
Where revenue leaks out
The billing cycle is where most healthcare organizations lose the most money.
Denial rates are climbing, reimbursement timelines are stretching, and the administrative labor required to manage it all is growing faster than headcount budgets allow. Disconnected clinical and financial systems compound the problem — when EHR data doesn't flow cleanly into the revenue cycle, coding errors and authorization gaps follow.
EHR data that doesn't reach the financial system cleanly
Clinical documentation lives in the EHR. Revenue lives in the ERP. When those systems require manual bridging — charge capture, diagnosis coding, visit data — errors enter the billing cycle before a single claim is submitted. The result is a denial rate that reflects a systems problem, not a clinical one.
Best-in-class denial rate: <3%. Industry average: 11.8% and rising
Reimbursement timelines that distort cash flow
More than 40% of healthcare organizations report waiting two months or longer to receive reimbursement for services rendered — with Medicaid payments frequently stretching beyond six months. Without accurate accrual accounting, reported revenue and actual cash are perpetually out of step.
40%+ of providers wait 2+ months to receive reimbursement
Multi-entity and multi-location finance without consolidated visibility
Clinic networks, affiliated practices, and hospital-owned entities each generate financial activity that must be consolidated at close. Without a properly configured multi-entity structure in NetSuite, consolidation is a manual exercise that adds days to the close cycle every month.
Manual consolidation is a top close-cycle time sink for multi-location healthcare organizations
Provider credentialing that lives outside the financial system
Physician and advanced practice provider credentialing determines billing eligibility — and lapses generate claim denials retroactively. When credentialing status isn't tracked in the ERP, finance only discovers the problem after claims have been denied for providers whose credentials expired without anyone noticing.
Non-compliance risks include significant financial penalties and reputational damage
Built for hospital and clinic financial operations
The tools that close the gap between billed and collected.
Archer's EHR/EMR connector for NetSuite and purpose-built module set address the clinical-to-financial handoff, provider credentialing, and workforce cost workflows where hospital and clinic finance teams lose the most revenue and carry the most risk.
Archer Module
EHR/EMR Integration
Archer's NetSuite connector pulls clinical encounter data, charge capture, and diagnosis codes directly from your EHR/EMR — eliminating the manual bridging between clinical documentation and the revenue cycle that generates systematic billing errors and denial exposure.
Archer Module
Revenue Cycle Integration
End-to-end reimbursement visibility from claim submission through payment posting — surfacing denial root causes, payer-specific underpayment patterns, and A/R aging trends in NetSuite so finance can act on revenue cycle performance in real time, not at month-end.
Archer Module
Provider Credentialing Workflow
Automated tracking of physician and APP credentialing status, license expiration dates, and payer enrollment — ensuring billing eligibility is current before claims go out and triggering renewal workflows well before credentials lapse.
Archer Module
Labor Expense Allocation Engine
Program-based cost transparency by department, cost center, and entity — allocating clinical and administrative labor costs with the granularity that healthcare CFOs need to understand true cost per service line and make staffing decisions on real data.
What becomes possible
A financial operation that collects more, closes faster, and carries less risk.
When EHR data flows cleanly into NetSuite, provider credentialing is tracked systematically, and labor costs are allocated accurately, the financial function shifts from chasing revenue to managing it.
Faster
Close cycle across all entities
Multi-location consolidation in days, not weeks
Multi-entity NetSuite structures with automated intercompany eliminations and EHR-driven charge data reduce the manual consolidation burden — giving finance leadership accurate consolidated financials faster, without the spreadsheet assembly that currently defines period-end.
Fewer
Denial-driven revenue write-offs
Billing workflows that catch errors before claims go out
EHR integration that surfaces clean charge data, combined with credentialing status tracking and payer-specific billing logic, reduces the categories of denials that originate from preventable data gaps — recovering revenue that's currently leaking through the claims process.
Accurate
Labor costs by department and program
Workforce costs allocated to the services that generate them
Labor expense allocation at the department and program level gives finance the true cost-per-service-line data needed to evaluate contracts, staffing models, and expansion decisions — replacing the blended overhead rates that currently obscure where margin is made and where it's lost.
Get started
Ready to connect your clinical systems to a revenue cycle that captures what they earn?
Schedule a discovery call with Archer. We'll assess your EHR environment and show you what a purpose-built NetSuite implementation looks like for your clinic or hospital network.