What your schedulers already know that your forecast does not
Your front desk can tell you which families will actually show up next month. That information never reaches the revenue model, which is why the model is wrong. Here is how to capture it without adding a meeting.
Staffing to the authorization is how you end up overstaffed in March
Hiring against authorized hours instead of realistic hours puts clinicians on payroll for work that was never going to exist. Here is what the idle wages cost, why the error shows up a quarter late, and five checks you can run this week.
Reservoir by client, not by payer
A practice-level reservoir ratio describes no actual client. Two families on identical authorizations can have completely different realistic capacity, and averaging them produces a number that is wrong for both. Here is why the aggregate hides the decision, and five checks you can run this week.
The number in your system is not the number you can bill
A payer approving 100 hours a week is not a forecast. Here is the number that is, how to build it for your own clients, and the five checks that catch authorization burn before it costs you payroll.