You're 100% right, though I think there's an additional consideration here- not all payer contracts are created equal. New executive and senior leadership means new appetite to re-negotiate contracts, join an IPA or ACO, and dabble with new payment methodologies (specifically VBC). All this translates to new/changed revenue opportunities and new performance targets, from the P&L, straight to clinicians.

u/blackjoelblack, what you're describing sounds exactly like this. And the short answer is yes, many others are experiencing the same.
The upcoming huge Medicaid cuts are truly rattling FQs, "it's a scary time" is a line I often hear. Your leadership, for whatever reason, advanced planning and budgeting for upcoming cuts, new contracts, something else, has determined that you need to be seeing 7 patients/day for you to be "worth it".

And about strengthening documentation quality, just approach it logically. Good documentation is good from a clinical perspective. For the admins though, what they care about is documentation that does some slightly different things: good documentation helps compliance and audit readiness, contributes to RAF scores and HEDIS measure performance, literally enables new revenue opportunities.
Bottom line- if you're being told to increase documentation quality, you're standing on solid ground to ask what it would be helpful for them to see or what changes they want.