Despite better cash flow, providers missed out on more revenue in 2025 due to increased payer denials

Fierce Healthcare – Thursday, April 2, 2026
By Dave Muoio

Providers managed to secure claims payments from insurers more quickly in 2025, but ultimately missed out on substantially more revenue due to a rise in clinical denial activity that was already elevated in 2024, according to a full-year look at more than 2,300 hospitals’ and 350,000 physicians’ revenue cycle data.

Among these providers, the average time to insurance payment declined from 57.4 days in 2024 to 55.2 days in 2025, and was accompanied by a 2.3-day improvement in median accounts receivable days. Other metrics of payment speed also improved from year to year among providers on Kodiak Solutions’ platform, whose data were included in the recently published benchmarking analysis.

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