Excel & Python for Healthcare Billing: Streamline Reimbursement
This book is your complete, end-to-end playbook for building a faster, cleaner, and more profitable healthcare billing operation. Designed for analysts, billing specialists, finance teams, and healthcare administrators, it shows how to combine the flexibility of Excel with the automation power of Python to eliminate bottlenecks, reduce errors, and accelerate reimbursement across every stage of the revenue cycle.
The healthcare billing system is a data problem. Claims stall, denials stack up, and reimbursements slow when teams lack visibility, automation, and consistent workflows. This book gives you the tools to fix that. You'll learn how to structure claim data for analysis, automate routine tasks, generate red-flag reports, detect coding inconsistencies, and forecast reimbursement timelines with precision. You'll also learn how to build practical scripts that clean datasets, check coding accuracy, validate modifiers, identify denial patterns, and create dashboards that decision-makers can act on immediately.
Inside, you'll find hands-on tutorials, healthcare-specific templates, real-world datasets, and plug-and-play Python scripts that you can adapt to any clinic, hospital, or billing department. Whether you're modernizing your team's workflow or building a scalable billing system from scratch, this guide gives you the technical foundation and operational discipline to drive measurable financial results.
You'll walk away able to:
- Automate claim cleaning, batching, and validation
- Detect coding errors, mismatched modifiers, and missing documentation
- Analyze denial trends and build predictive reimbursement timelines
- Build dashboards for cash flow, AR aging, and claim cycle velocity
- Integrate Python workflows with Excel models for seamless updates
- Create billing workflows that reduce delays and increase payout accuracy
This is the practical, data-driven roadmap healthcare billing teams have been missing. A must-have resource for anyone serious about improving reimbursement speed, revenue integrity, and operational performance in modern healthcare.