A/R Aging

A/R aging is the breakdown of your outstanding receivables by how old they are (0–30, 31–60, 61–90, 90+ days) — the report that shows where stuck, at-risk money is hiding.

A/R aging sorts your outstanding claims into buckets by age — typically 0–30, 31–60, 61–90, and over 90 days — so you can see not just how much you're owed but how old it is. It's the companion to days in A/R: the average tells you overall speed, the aging report tells you where the problem concentrates. The bucket that matters most is over 90 days; a healthy practice keeps it under roughly 15–20% of total A/R, and above about 25% means aging is outrunning your workflow. Old receivables are dangerous for two reasons at once: they're statistically the hardest to collect, and they're the closest to timely-filing and appeal deadlines, so every day they sit unworked raises the odds they become uncollectible. The over-90 bucket is also where denials and underpayments pile up, because a denied claim requires real work to recover and tends to get pushed down the list behind easier, fresher claims. Working A/R aging means triaging the old bucket first by dollar value and recoverability — and it's exactly the work that gets skipped when a billing team is stretched, which is why the over-90 pile grows.

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