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Estimate the real cost of in-house billing

Billing has to happen. The real question is who's doing it, and how many hours it's taking from the work only they can do. Adjust the fields to match your practice.
Who handles most of your billing today?
Hours per week80

Rough starting points by number of active learners. Tap one to fill it in, then adjust.

Under 30 learners
30–150 learners
150–300 learners
300+ learners
Which parts of the billing cycle does your team handle? Unchecking a task lowers the reclaimable hours, since that work wouldn't shift to an RCM team.
Per hour$500

Time Reclaimed

0 hrs / week

Could shift off your team — about 0 hours a year

Value of time reclaimed

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Add an hourly rate to see the dollar value.

Pick who handles your billing to see what that time is costing you.

About these numbers

What this calculator measures

This calculator measures the hours your team spends on claims-related tasks: submission, denial management, payment posting, and patient billing. Authorization and eligibility verification are typically handled separately, so they're not included here.

If you uncheck a task above, we adjust your reported hours down to reflect that it wouldn't shift to an RCM team. From there, we count about 75% of the remaining hours as reclaimable, since some internal coordination stays with you even with an outside team. The dollar figure uses base hourly wages, before benefits or overhead, and the yearly view assumes 50 working weeks. Every field is editable, so you can match your own numbers.

Where the default rates come from

Default hourly rates are conservative base wages drawn from public 2026 salary data (ZipRecruiter, Glassdoor, PayScale, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics): ABA biller about $25, office admin about $21, BCBA about $45. The owner rate is left blank on purpose, since a practice owner's hour is worth whatever their time is worth to the business.

Wages vary widely by state and experience, so treat these as a starting point and adjust the rate to your own market.