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Days in AR: What Is Normal, and Why the Number Can Lie
Days in AR is the metric every practice tracks and the one most likely to give false comfort. It can improve while your collections get worse, because writing a claim off clears it from AR exactly as well as collecting it does. A healthy average can also sit on top of a serious aging problem. Here is the correct formula, what the benchmarks say, and the three ways the number misleads.