Practical Data Solutions

10/10/2026

Is Your Denial Rate Telling You the Whole Story?

Healthcare organizations spend considerable time tracking denials, but are they measuring the right things?

Knowing how many claims were denied and the dollars involved is important. But those numbers alone don't tell you which denials are recoverable, where your staff should focus, or whether your prevention efforts are actually improving performance.

In fact, your denial rate could be telling you that performance is getting worse when it's actually improving.

Consider how denials are measured. Reporting denials by the month they're posted provides an important picture of current activity. But those denials may relate to claims submitted months earlier. When you match denials back to their original billing periods, a very different performance trend can emerge.

That distinction matters when you're evaluating operational improvements and measuring true denial recovery.

In PDS's webcast, Working Smarter with Denials: Focusing on Prevention, Recovery, and Results, Hendrickson explores how healthcare organizations can move beyond basic denial reporting to answer more valuable questions:
• Which denials can we directly prevent, and which can we only influence?
• Are we recovering the revenue associated with denied claims?
• Which payers and procedures represent the greatest financial opportunities?
• Are our prevention and recovery efforts actually improving results?

The webcast also demonstrates how analytics can identify high-dollar procedures with low recovery rates, uncover denial patterns across payers and specialties, and drill down to individual claims to help teams investigate opportunities.

The goal isn't to work every denial harder. It's to understand where your efforts can produce the greatest financial return.

In just 30 minutes, discover practical ways to turn denial data into better decisions about prevention, recovery, and resource allocation.

Learn More: https://pds-online.com/news/healthcare-denials-new-pds-webcast-focuses-on-where-to-prevent-recover-and-prioritize/

10/07/2026

Not all are created equal.
Some represent significant lost revenue. Others may cost more to pursue than they're worth.

The challenge for Revenue Cycle, Finance, and Operations isn't simply knowing how many denials you have. It's knowing where to focus.

Which denials have the greatest financial impact?
Which are recoverable?
Where can prevention make a difference?
And where should your team spend its time?

Join PDS for Working Smarter with Denials: Focusing on Prevention, Recovery, and Results and learn how to use denial data to prioritize opportunities based on financial impact, not just denial volume.

Choose Your Time and Date:
● Wednesday, Oct. 28 | 11 AM Eastern https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5417912246020/WN_C7X7Jf93SKaAkHNi1JJRaQ

● Thursday, Oct. 29 | 3 PM Eastern https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9017912247921/WN_ERxawp_uScWaum5oG9By4Q

09/20/2026

Maintaining revenue is only one side of the profitability equation. Do you know which expenses may be quietly eating into your margins?

Join PDS for From Cost Data to ROI: Finding and Managing Your Practice’s Biggest Expense Drivers to learn how to identify your top expense drivers and use a closed-loop process to better manage them.

📅 Tuesday, September 22 at 11:00 AM ET - https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5917881966730/WN_AMuvqz1HT4KEDYumJQ1FYA
📅 Thursday, September 24 at 2:00 PM ET - https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4117881974322/WN_lY11u0KxSEGRc7NH2wbIDQ

Two times to choose from. Less than 30 minutes. Practical ideas you can put to work.

Featured Speakers: Shawntea Gordon, CEO and Founder of Atlas & Perpetua Healthcare Consulting, and Russell Hendrickson, President and CEO of Practical Data Solutions

09/19/2026

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆?

Now available to watch for the first time, this PDS webinar explores how predictive models can help healthcare leaders uncover opportunities hidden in no-show patterns, provider utilization, and patient cycle times.

And it takes less than 30 minutes.

Watch on demand and see where predictive modeling could make an operational—and financial—difference.

Predictive analytics can be a game-changer in healthcare, with mode...

09/17/2026

Cost data becomes much more valuable when you can use it to answer questions like:
● Which expenses are outpacing performance?
● Where are we outside our internal targets?
● Which opportunities could have the greatest financial impact?
● Are the changes we’ve made actually working?

From Cost Data to ROI: Finding and Managing Your Practice’s Biggest Expense Drivers - Save Your Seat!
📅 September 22 at 11 AM ET https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5917881966730/WN_AMuvqz1HT4KEDYumJQ1FYA

📅 September 24 at 2 PM ET https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4117881974322/WN_lY11u0KxSEGRc7NH2wbIDQ

09/12/2026

When costs are rising faster than revenue and reimbursement, where do you find margin? The answer may be hiding in your expenses.

Watch Taya Gordon, CEO and Founder of Atlas & Perpetua Healthcare Consulting, give a preview of her upcoming webcast with Russell Hendrickson, President and CEO of Practical Data Solutions.

From Cost Data to ROI: Finding and Managing Your Practice’s Biggest Expense Drivers
● September 22 at 11 AM ET -https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5917881966730/WN_AMuvqz1HT4KEDYumJQ1FYA
● September 24 at 2 PM ET - https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5917881966730/WN_AMuvqz1HT4KEDYumJQ1FYA

Dig into the costs that are consuming the most resources, what’s driving them—and, most importantly, what you can do about them. Choose your day https://pds-online.com/webinars/ - 30 minutes or less and live text Q&A throughout.

09/07/2026

Join Taya Gordon, CEO and Founder of Atlas & Perpetua Healthcare Consulting, and Russell Hendrickson, President and CEO of Practical Data Solutions and learn how to identify, prioritize, and manage the expense drivers with the greatest potential for financial improvement.

From Cost Data to ROI: Finding and Managing Your Practice’s Biggest Expense Drivers

⏱ 30 minutes or less + live text Q&A

📅 September 22 at 11 AM ET https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5917881966730/WN_AMuvqz1HT4KEDYumJQ1FYA

📅 September 24 at 2 PM ET https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4117881974322/WN_lY11u0KxSEGRc7NH2wbIDQ

Save Your Seat!

09/05/2026

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘀?
Reducing costs doesn’t have to mean launching a major, organization-wide initiative.

Sometimes the biggest opportunity is identifying the right expense, understanding what’s driving it, and making a focused change.

Join Taya Gordon, CEO and Founder of Atlas & Perpetua Healthcare Consulting, and Russell Hendrickson, President and CEO of Practical Data Solutions to learn how to identify high-impact cost drivers, prioritize opportunities based on financial impact and feasibility, and focus your resources where they can make a measurable difference.

From Cost Data to ROI: Finding and Managing Your Practice’s Biggest Expense Drivers

⏱ 30 minutes or less + live text Q&A

📅 September 22 at 11 AM ET https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5917881966730/WN_AMuvqz1HT4KEDYumJQ1FYA

📅 September 24 at 2 PM ET https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4117881974322/WN_lY11u0KxSEGRc7NH2wbIDQ

Save Your Seat!

09/01/2026

Your organization may be watching revenue closely. But are you watching what it costs to generate it? Staffing. Supplies. Technology. Facilities. RCM.

When expenses rise faster than performance, margins can shrink, even when revenue looks healthy.

Join PDS and Atlas & Perpetua Healthcare Consulting for From Cost Data to ROI: Finding and Managing Your Practice’s Biggest Expense Drivers and learn how to identify where costs may be outpacing performance and where there’s real opportunity to improve.

* 30 minutes or less * Live text Q&A throughout

📅 September 22 at 11 AM Eastern -https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5917881966730/WN_AMuvqz1HT4KEDYumJQ1FYA

📅 September 24 at 2 PM Eastern - https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4117881974322/WN_lY11u0KxSEGRc7NH2wbIDQ

Choose your day: https://pds-online.com/webinars/

Speakers: Shawntea Gordon and Russell Hendrickson

08/16/2026

Patients remember:
• Waiting
• Delays
• Long visits
• Poor communication
Join PDS to uncover exactly where delays occur and identify opportunities to improve patient flow. Learn how predictive models can connect operational metrics with patient experience.

WEBCAST: Creating Predictive Models to Improve Patient Experience

● Thursday, August 20 at 11:00 AM Eastern (NYC) or - https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6017852437179/WN_ZDvtPvZ2SYOUToMMaKm0zg

● Friday, August 21 at 3:00 PM Eastern (NYC) -https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5117852438196/WN_d69ncjIvQnGSxR7dy_1i8g