Aurora, Unlocked
In this edition of The JARALL Quarterly, JARALL founder and CEO Dr. Alan Bass gives a live walkthrough of Aurora, the reporting and analytics platform he designed so practices can see their own data. In more than 30 years of practice and consulting, Dr. Bass found that most practices lack an easy way to get to their numbers, because EHR analytics tools tend to be big, slow, and clunky. Aurora gathers the data, makes it easy to read, and puts the numbers that matter most in front of you. Client Services Manager Eric Childress moderates a live Q&A at the end.
What You'll Learn
The Monthly Review Dashboard: the snapshot you see at login, with charges, net collections, collection ratio, total and new patients, and total A/R compared with the previous month, plus the biggest drivers of change in what you billed, your insurance and patient A/R shift, and how your billing team performed
Financial Data: full-year, half-year, and quarterly views at the practice level or for each provider, shown as charts or tables, covering charges and collections, net versus gross collections and carve-outs, per-visit value, A/R and collection ratios, and new versus total patients
Dollars per Hour: how Aurora divides collections by clinic and provider hours to show what each hour of your schedule produces
Clinical Data: the procedure categories Dr. Bass considers most relevant to a podiatry practice, including every E&M code (compare new and established patients at any level), nail and callus care, DME, X-rays, injections, wound care, diabetic shoes, biopsies, casting and fracture care, and common surgical codes
Payer Analysis: how each of your payers performs across the codes you bill
Biller KPIs: clean claim rate (JARALL targets above 95%, closer to 98%), bad debt rate, gross and net collections (JARALL targets a net collection rate above 95%), and charge lag days, the average time from a signed chart to a submitted claim
Forecasting: AI-generated 3-, 6-, and 12-month forecasts of charges, net collections, and total and new patients, built from your actual data
Data That Stays Current: Aurora pulls data from your EHR every night, so earlier months update as claims and collections reconcile
Live Q&A: EHR integrations (ModMed and NextGen are live, and eClinicalWorks is in development), plus attendee suggestions such as fee schedule comparisons and denial reason tracking
Why This Matters
As Dr. Bass puts it, you should not run your practice with your gut or your heart: you make decisions with your head and with your data. Are you seeing enough new patients? Does your marketing need work? How does one payer reimburse a given CPT code? The answers are in your numbers. Aurora puts the data Dr. Bass reviewed every week, month, quarter, and year as a practice owner into one simple view, and it comes at no charge to JARALL clients. The platform keeps growing, too, with new data added based on client feedback.
Watch the full webinar above for Dr. Bass's screen-by-screen tour of Aurora and a live Q&A on EHR integrations, fee schedules, denial tracking, and more.