Eliott Dear on the Claims Assassins 10% Contingency: No Upfront Fee, No Retainer, No Contract

What the Fee Actually Is

Claims Assassins charges ten percent of the improvement. Not ten percent of the billed charges. Not ten percent of the FAIR Health benchmark. Not ten percent of some hypothetical number. Ten percent of the actual dollar improvement between the insurer’s original payment and its final payment on the claim.

The fee is the difference between the final payment and the original payment, times ten percent. Every 1,000 dollars of improvement carries a 100 dollar fee. The physician keeps the rest. The arithmetic is designed to be boring.

No Upfront, No Retainer, No Minimum

Eliott Dear does not require a retainer. There is no hourly component. There is no administrative fee, no file-setup charge, no per-claim cost. The only payment to Claims Assassins is the ten percent contingency on the dollars above the insurer’s original payment.

This means a physician can send one claim and test the entire pipeline for zero dollars out of pocket. If there is no improvement, the physician owes nothing. If there is an improvement, Claims Assassins takes ten percent of it and nothing else.

Why the Structure Works

Attorneys who charge hourly have an incentive to generate hours. Attorneys who charge retainers have an incentive to keep the client on retainer. Attorneys who charge contingency on an improvement have an incentive to generate real improvements. Because if the improvement is zero, the attorney earns zero. Every minute Eliott Dear spends on a Claims Assassins file goes into the work itself: the plan sort, the documents, the filing and the deadlines.

The physician never has to wonder what a filing cost. The fee is mechanically tied to an event the physician can verify on the EOB.

No Long-Term Contract

Claims Assassins does not ask for an exclusive service agreement, a term commitment, or a minimum volume. A physician can send one claim. If the result is useful, send more. If not, stop sending. There is no cancellation clause because there is nothing to cancel.

The philosophy behind all of this is the same philosophy Eliott Dear built his entire practice on. Measurement before commitment. Test the pipeline on one file. See what it produces. Decide from there. No contract, no retainer, no long-term commitment. Just a measurement.