Pathology Revenue Cycle Management Case Study: Cutting Billing Turnaround by Up to 50% in 90 Days
Decades-old software was hiding underpayments and slowing cash flow at Pathology Associates of North Texas. Coronis Health's pathology revenue cycle management rebuilt its billing into a data-rich platform, cutting turnaround by up to 50% in 90 days.
Client Profile
Pathology Associates of North Texas
- Client
- A pathology practice that handles billing across multiple partnering hospital systems.
- Specialty
- Anatomic and clinical pathology
- Location
- Wichita Falls, Texas
- Size
- 14 staff members
- Scope
- Full-service pathology revenue cycle management
The Challenge
Legacy Pathology Billing and Hidden Underpayments
Pathology Associates of North Texas (PNT) was running its pathology billing on decades-old legacy systems that hid underpayments and slowed cash flow. Thin reporting and manual workflows left the team chasing revenue it couldn’t fully see, while a staff nearing retirement made the aging setup harder to sustain.
PNT wanted a sustainable, data-rich platform with real analytics, and a partner to run its billing as an extension of the in-house team. So it turned to Coronis Health to rebuild the process end to end.
The Coronis Health Approach
Coronis Health Data-Driven Billing Rebuild
Coronis Health started by easing the pressure on PNT’s billing team, forming a cross-functional task force that drew on every department and treated staff as full partners. Within 90 days, the joint team migrated PNT to a new pathology revenue cycle management platform built for a practice that wanted to run on real data.
Hospital-system CPT billing — Coronis Health set up CPT billing with PNT’s partnering hospital systems, a new capability for the practice.
Contract-level audit — analysts reviewed every payer contract and enforced rate compliance, so underpayments surface in real time instead of slipping through.
Service-line reporting — new dashboards simplified each service line, surfacing payment variances on the spot and giving the team analytics PNT never had.
The Results
Up to 50% Faster Billing Turnaround
Within 90 days, PNT was running on a platform with real-time visibility it had never had. Revenue began to grow and payer compliance tightened under active oversight. For the first time, the team could see performance down to each service line and challenge underpayments on the spot.
- Billing turnaround: up to 50% faster, within 90 days
- Revenue: early growth within 90 days, with more expected
- Payer compliance: improved through active oversight
- Reporting: real-time data down to each service line
Disclaimer: All results are based on internal reporting from this specific client engagement and are not guaranteed outcomes.
What really impressed us was Coronis Health's pathology-specific expertise — it was critical to our success.
PNT Leadership
Why It Matters for Pathology Practices
For pathology practices, billing trouble rarely arrives as one big failure—it builds quietly in thin reporting, aging software and underpayments that go unnoticed. The groups that stay financially healthy are the ones that can see performance down to each service line and catch variances in real time, before revenue leaks for months.
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