UNDERPAYMENT PLAYBOOK · SILENT PPO / RENTAL NETWORK REPRICING

How to recover a Silent PPO / Rental Network Repricing underpayment

A silent PPO underpayment is when a payer or third-party repricer applies a network discount to your claim through a leased or rental network you never signed a contract with, so you're paid a discounted rate you never agreed to.

How it shows up: A network discount or repriced allowed from a payer or repricer you never contracted with

Why it happens

  • A third-party repricer applied a discount through a leased or rental network
  • The payer accessed your rate through a silent PPO arrangement
  • The discount cites a contract you never signed
  • A repricer's name or logo appears on the remittance where your payer's should be

What recovers it

  • Demand the specific signed contract that authorizes the discount
  • If no contract exists, the discount has no basis, bill the full or true-contract amount
  • Invoke any applicable state silent-PPO or prompt-pay law
  • Escalate to the payer's network or provider-relations team

Worth recovering? Silent-PPO discounts are taken through a contract you never agreed to, when the payer can't produce the agreement, the discount is often reversible. It's one of the most under-recognized underpayment sources in the industry.

Common questions

How do I recover a Silent PPO / Rental Network Repricing underpayment?

A silent PPO underpayment is when a payer or third-party repricer applies a network discount to your claim through a leased or rental network you never signed a contract with, so you're paid a discounted rate you never agreed to. To recover it: demand the specific signed contract that authorizes the discount; if no contract exists, the discount has no basis, bill the full or true-contract amount; invoke any applicable state silent-PPO or prompt-pay law; escalate to the payer's network or provider-relations team. Because the claim already paid, the hard part is catching it, reconciling the allowed amount against what you were actually owed.

Is a Silent PPO / Rental Network Repricing underpayment worth recovering?

Silent-PPO discounts are taken through a contract you never agreed to, when the payer can't produce the agreement, the discount is often reversible. It's one of the most under-recognized underpayment sources in the industry. A no-risk service makes it easy to find out, you only pay on what's actually recovered, so there's no cost to surfacing the ones that are real.

How does Volari find Silent PPO / Rental Network Repricing underpayments?

Volari reconciles every remittance line's paid and allowed amounts against what your contract and the payer's own rules say you should have been paid, surfaces the silent ppo / rental network repricing shortfalls no one flagged, and works the recovery. You pay 25% only on what's recovered, and nothing if nothing comes back.

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