Real insight. Better revenue.

Full-service behavioral-health billing & revenue cycle management.

HRI runs the full revenue cycle for RTC, detox, PHP & IOP programs, from benefits to appeals. We apply payer intelligence at every stage.

  • We handle every stage: VOB, auth, claims, posting, denials, appeals & reporting.
  • First-level appeals included. Second-level and external review scoped in writing.
  • Payer intelligence built in. It finds why revenue is delayed, denied or underpaid.
Chris RyanPete Busch Built & led by behavioral-health operators Chris Ryan & Pete Busch, 30+ years combined in behavioral-health revenue cycle Meet Chris & Pete →

The difference

Find what
others miss.

DETOX · RTC · PHP · IOP
Specialized behavioral health

HRI Managed We run your billing in full, or share it with your team on a written split of who owns what. We report every claim to you each Friday. One contract, priced from your numbers and fixed in writing before the first claim. Claims Medicaid pays carry a flat fee per claim, never a percentage. Commercial and Medicare claims run on a monthly minimum or a percentage of what payers pay, whichever is greater, never both.
Appeal deadlines tracked We track every appeal to the deadline on the denial letter.
Payer intelligence The same denial does not cost you twice. We track payer behavior claim by claim.
Behavioral-health specialists RTC · Detox · PHP · IOP. Behavioral health is all we do.

What we do

Every step of the revenue cycle.

We run every stage ourselves. We catch a problem where it starts.

  1. 01

    Benefits, Eligibility & Patient Intake

    We verify coverage and set up each patient before the first claim is built.

  2. 02

    Authorization & Utilization Review

    We manage auth and UR end-to-end: preparation, scheduling, documentation, deadlines and peer-to-peer coordination.

  3. 03

    Claim Build, Submission & Follow-Up

    We run claims through defined clean-claim controls before submission and work follow-up through to resolution.

  4. 04

    Payment Posting & Reconciliation

    We post and reconcile payments line-by-line against contracted rates. We catch short payments at this step.

  5. 05

    Denials, Appeals & Aged AR

    We resolve denials at the root cause. We work appeals and stalled aged AR in priority order.

  6. 06

    Reporting, Underpayments & Payer Intelligence

    We run structured reporting and underpayment detection, with payer intelligence behind every decision.

Opening a program?

Billing and credentialing before you open.

HRI plans credentialing, payer enrollment and billing setup for residential, PHP and IOP programs in the months before they open. Nothing has to be finished. We just need to know where each item stands.

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Start when you sign the lease

Your organizational NPI, tax ID and state license go into the application. Each payer then runs on its own clock.

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Entity and license first, then NPI, then payers

Payer applications go in as soon as each has what it needs. EHR and clearinghouse setup run alongside.

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No claim before enrollment is confirmed

One rule is fixed: no claim goes to a payer until that payer confirms enrollment and an effective date.

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Test claims before the first real one

Sample claims are built and checked against payer rules before any real claim goes out, and claim status reporting starts from day one.

Behind every claim

A person in treatment is counting on it.

The money we chase pays for sessions and beds. We run the billing, and your clinical team stays with patients.

A paid claim keeps a program open.

From the field

Notes from live claims work.

Dated notes from the people working the claims. No client is named.

Jul 19, 2026

PB

UnitedHealthcare & UMR: residential checks routing to members

On out-of-network residential claims we keep finding UnitedHealthcare-administered plans, UMR included, either parking claims in post-service review or issuing payment to the member instead of the facility. If the portal says paid and no deposit ever landed, ask the family before you write an appeal — the check may be sitting in their mailbox.

More field notes →

Our approach

How we get you paid.

Health Revenue Intelligence pairs behavioral-health billing experience with payer intelligence to find the root causes of claim denials and revenue leakage before they compound.

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We only do behavioral health

Detox, RTC, PHP and IOP billing is all we work.

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We find why it denied

We find what caused the denial before another claim goes back out.

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We catch it early

We spot problems upstream, before they cost you a month of cash flow.

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You get a named team

The team knows your census and answers when you call.

From the Insights desk

Field-tested billing guidance.

Guidance on denials, appeals, coding and payer behavior, written from our behavioral-health billing work.

See all insights →

Not sure where your revenue is leaking?

Start with a billing review.

There is no charge for the review, and you do not need to send patient data. Send a few lines about your program and we will show you where to focus first: which claim issues are worth correcting now, and what they are likely worth.

Last updated: September 29, 2026

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