Podiatry

The balances Medicare sends back to the patient

Export the AR-aging report your practice management system already prints. Review every balance on one screen. Patients get a text with a secure link and pay by bank, card, or Apple Pay in under a minute.

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Why it slips

Sound familiar?

01
Routine care, denied as routine

Nail and callus care is covered only when a qualifying condition is documented, and the rules are narrow. A visit everyone in the room believed was covered comes back denied, and what the plan would not pay becomes what the patient owes.

02
Orthotics are a purchase, not a visit

Custom devices carry a real price and inconsistent coverage. Some plans pay part, some pay nothing, and the patient finds out weeks after being casted, long after walking out with a device they already have.

03
A share of everything, with no ceiling

Medicare patients owe a portion of the allowed amount on every service, and nothing caps it for the year. For a patient seen every few weeks, that is a small balance generated over and over, and small balances are the ones that get carried to the next statement and the one after that.

04
Mail a check, read a card number over the phone, or drive it in

Those are the options in most offices, and each one takes longer than the balance is worth, so the balance waits. A link that opens on a phone and takes bank, card, or Apple Pay is the fast path. For the patient who would still rather call, your office number sits on the payment page.

aging-aug.csv · patient AR5 balances
PatientDaysBalance
Margaret R.34$84.00
James T.61$156.00
David K.12$412.00
Sandra M.92$27.50
Robert L.61$63.00
Outstanding$742.50

The report your system already prints, exactly as it prints it. Parora relays these numbers and never calculates one of its own.

The balance nobody chases is the balance nobody pays.

Parora takes the chase off the desk without taking anyone’s hands off the wheel.

Ingest

Export the report you already run.

If it can print, it can export. No integration, no IT project.

Approval

Whoever runs your billing approves every balance.

One screen, one pass — most batches take a couple of minutes. Uncheck anything that isn't ready. Nothing reaches a patient until you approve it.

Review batch 5 balances
Margaret R. $84.00
David K. Insurance pending $412.00
Sandra M. $27.50
Approving 4 of 5 · 1 held for review
Approve & send
Delivery

Patients get a text, not a portal.

Text and email — your practice name and a secure link. No account, no password, no app.

Transparency

They see why they owe.

Billed, insurance paid, their share — visit by visit, so the "why do I owe this?" call answers itself.

Cedar Creek Periodontics 1 visit
Visit Billed Ins. paid Your share
Mar 12 $412.00 −$328.00 $84.00
Total due $84.00
Pay by card or bank Link expires in 7 days
Reconciliation

Everything lands where it should.

Live status on every balance — Paid, Processing, Sent, Overdue — and a clean report you post back into your PMS in minutes.

$84.00collected of $330.50 · 4 balances
Paid 1 $84.00
Processing 1 $156.00
Sent 1 $27.50
Overdue 1 $63.00
aug-recon.csv — ready to post ACH · 2 days
Security

There's nothing to break into.

No portal, no logins, no stored cards. Links expire. Texts carry no dollar amounts and no clinical detail.

No patient portal
No logins, no passwords
No stored card numbers
Links expire

Coverage rules here are narrow enough that a claim's outcome is genuinely hard to predict. Software that sends statements on a schedule cannot tell the difference between a balance that is settled and one that is still being reprocessed. Your biller can.

Nothing sends until your biller approves it

Parora parses your aging report and puts every balance on one screen. Rows start checked and your biller unchecks the exceptions: the disputed one, the one waiting on a secondary claim, the patient who is coming in Thursday. Parora relays the number your system already has and never calculates a balance of its own.

There is nothing to break into

No patient portal. No patient logins. No stored card numbers. The text carries your practice name and a link, with no patient name, no dollar amount, and nothing clinical in the message itself. The link opens one page that expires, shows what was billed and what insurance paid, and takes the payment. Parora is a HIPAA business associate and signs a BAA with your practice.

Questions

Questions, answered

No. Parora reads the AR-aging report your system already exports, which every practice management system produces. There is no integration to build and no vendor to get approval from.

Small balances are the ones that never get chased, because a phone call costs more than the balance is worth. In Parora they go out in the same batch as everything else and your biller approves the whole batch in one pass.

Yes. Parora is built for in-house billers and third-party billing companies alike. Each practice is its own workspace with its own payment account, its own rules, and its own patients. Payments settle to the practice's bank account and every message goes out under the practice's name.

A text and an email carrying your practice name and a link. The link opens a single page showing what was billed, what insurance paid, and what they owe, with one button. Bank transfer, card, or Apple Pay. No account to create, no password, under a minute.

The pilot is free. Pricing is month-to-month with no contract, and you will see exact pricing next to your own pilot results before the pilot ends.

Get started

Start with your own aging report

Bring one aging report from whatever you run. For 30 days we measure against your own baseline — days to pay, dollars collected, desk hours back.

Worst case: a free month of collections and your numbers in writing. Best case: the chase is over.

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Cedar Creek Periodontics
Mar 12 · Billed $412.00 · Ins. paid $328.00 $84.00
Total due $84.00
Apple Pay
Pay by bank
Card
No account, no app, no password.