BerryDunn, a full-service accounting, tax, and consulting firm, has introduced a new Critical Access Hospital reimbursement modeling tool designed to help hospitals navigate reimbursement and financial sustainability challenges. The powerful, customizable solution was developed specifically for Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), enabling them to better understand, predict, and optimize reimbursement in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

BerryDunn’s reimbursement modeling tool empowers CAHs, which often operate with limited resources, to make confident, forward-looking decisions, while continuing to provide essential care to their communities. The tool transforms complex cost-report data into clear, actionable insights that hospital leaders can use to evaluate options, mitigate risk, and identify opportunities to strengthen long-term financial stability.

From labor shortages to regulatory changes, today’s CAHs face greater challenges than ever. With BerryDunn’s reimbursement modeling tool, organizations gain visibility into financial performance at both the strategic and operational levels. Users can customize the model to their unique cost structure, service mix, and reimbursement requirements, driving more predictable financial outcomes.

"Today, Critical Access Hospitals are operating with smaller teams and leaner budgets, while making high-stakes financial decisions in an ever-changing regulatory environment,” said Deb Dorain, Senior Manager in BerryDunn’s Healthcare Practice Group. “This tool gives CAH leaders the clarity and confidence they need to anticipate settlements and make informed, proactive decisions."

BerryDunn’s CAH expertise is unmatched in the industry. Since 1997, the firm has worked with Critical Access Hospitals across the nation, beginning with the very first organization to earn CAH certification. Over the years, the firm has collaborated with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to help shape reimbursement methodologies, ensuring fair and accurate processes that reflect the allowable costs and mission of critical access care.

"Our history with Critical Access Hospitals goes back to the very beginning of the CAH program," said Denny Roberge, a BerryDunn Principal and recognized expert in revenue cycle management. "That depth of experience—working directly with CMS on reimbursement policy and alongside hospital leaders in the field—is embedded in this new tool. It's not a generic financial model. It reflects the real-world complexity that CAH finance teams deal with every day."

For more than five decades, BerryDunn has partnered with organizations across the US and its territories as a client-centered, people-first firm with deep experience in Critical Access Hospitals. The firm’s Healthcare Practice Group includes reimbursement consultants who come directly from the industry, bringing an in-depth understanding of cost-based reimbursement and proven expertise to every engagement.