CCBHC Revenue Integrity
Your PPS rate is set. Your claims aren't matching it.
Most CCBHCs fought hard for a rate and then never checked whether the money actually landed. I read your own 837 and 835 files and show you, claim by claim, where the gap is.
- Visit-days billed (837)
- 12,400
- Visit-days paid (835)
- 11,730
- Unpaid visit-days
- 670
- × PPS daily rate
- $268
- Unrecovered
- +$179,560
The retrospective finds your real number.
- ✓CCBHC billing in 3 states
- ✓2-week turnaround
- ✓Fixed fee, quoted up front
- ✓Read-only files — no EHR access
10+ years inside CCBHC billing and PPS reconciliation — I've seen exactly how visit-days fall through between the encounter and the 835. I read your own files and hand you a number you can trust.
The CCBHC Revenue Integrity Retrospective
Two weeks. Your own files. One number.
A fixed-scope reconciliation of what you billed against what actually paid — visit-day by visit-day, against your real PPS rate. At the end you hold a number, not a sales pitch.
- You send 90 days of 837 and 835 files
- Day 1
- Reconciliation and root-cause analysis
- Days 2–10
- Findings report + walkthrough call
- Days 11–14
I send step-by-step instructions for pulling the files. They come out of your EHR — read-only, no system access needed.
$6,500
Flat · fixed scope · two weeks
One line item. Quoted before we start, invoiced once, and unrelated to what I find.
What you do with the findings is your call. If you want help acting on them, we scope that separately — same way, fixed and quoted up front. If your team can handle it in-house, I'll tell you that instead.
- 01Your PPS gap, in dollarsVisit-days billed vs. paid, priced at your actual rate.
- 02Where it's leakingDenials, unbilled visit-days, wrap that was never reconciled, DCO encounters that never came back.
- 03What to fix firstRanked by dollars recoverable vs. effort, with the specific workflow or payer rule behind each.
- 04A straight answerWhat your team can fix in-house, and what — if anything — is worth bringing me in for.
Request your retrospective
Find your number.
Tell me a little about your agency and I'll come back within one business day with whether the retrospective applies to you and what it will cost. No obligation.
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The PPS Revenue Leak Checklist
Seventeen places CCBHC dollars go missing between the encounter and the deposit. Work through it against your own data — most agencies find at least three they can't rule out.
- ✓ Visit-days that never became claims
- ✓ Claims that paid, but paid short
- ✓ The four leaks your own billing reports structurally cannot show you
Not tied to the retrospective
Other ways I work with agencies
CCBHC readiness & PPS rate-setting
Get the rate right before you anchor it.
EHR implementation & optimization
Make the system you already pay for work.
AI & automation
Cut the manual work that drains staff hours.
Who you're working with
An operator, not a slide deck.
I'm Chris Goodbaudy. I've spent more than a decade implementing and training behavioral health, developmental disability, and community mental health agencies on their EHRs — configuring the billing rules, sitting with the staff who work the denials, and seeing exactly where revenue escapes.
I've done this work directly for six CCBHCs across Oregon, Nevada, and Illinois — standing up their CCBHC billing and untangling what their EHRs were getting wrong.
Because CCBHC billing is its own animal. A PPS rate isn't a fee schedule — it's one payment per client per day, set by a cost report, with DCO encounters that have to find their way back to you and wrap payments that reconcile or quietly don't. Most revenue-cycle advice is written for fee-for-service and falls apart on contact with a daily rate.
So I read your 837s and 835s myself, at the segment level, instead of trusting what your EHR's A/R report says it billed. That's the difference between a finding and a guess — and it's why you get a number, not a list of best practices.
I work through Thought Spark AI LLC, my consulting practice — that's the name you'll see on the scheduling page and on any agreement.
Find out what your PPS rate is actually paying you.
Two weeks. Your own 837 and 835 files. One fixed fee.
Scheduling and engagements run through Thought Spark AI LLC.