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Where revenue actually slips between documentation and payment — and how to find it before the claim goes out.
Estimate yoursDenials approaching 20%, 60%+ never appealed. What payer automation means for providers — and how to get ahead of it.
Request itEvidence citation, anti-upcoding guardrails, and human-in-the-loop — why defensibility is a feature, not a footnote.
Read our approachThese are entry requirements in a 2026 evaluation — missing any one usually ends it. Use the list on any vendor, including us. The right column is how Medically answers.
| Requirement | What to look for | Medically |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage & evidence | ||
| 100% chart coverage | Every inpatient encounter reviewed pre-bill, not a sampled or prioritized subset. | YesEvery discharge, inside the bill-hold window, with no DNFB impact. |
| Whole-record reading | Structured data (labs, meds, vitals, orders, flowsheets) plus notes, radiology, and pathology. | YesLabs, medications, vitals, orders, flowsheets, microbiology, imaging and pathology results, notes, and prior codes. |
| Evidence-linked findings | Each suggestion cites source data with timestamps; the reviewer sees why in one view. | YesVerbatim, located chart spans on every finding. No citation, no finding. |
| Both directions | Flags unsupported diagnoses and downgrades, not only upgrades. Essential for compliance defense. | YesTwo-way findings in one list, each with a defensibility score judged against the payer's own criteria. |
| Human approval & audit trail | Accept or reject with reason codes, logged. Nothing auto-billed. | YesRequired reason codes and an append-only ledger with model and prompt versions. Nothing reaches the claim without sign-off. |
| Financial & quality math | ||
| DRG impact math | MS-DRG and APR-DRG shift, SOI/ROM, and dollar value per finding, used to prioritize work. | YesMS-DRG, APR-DRG SOI/ROM, and dollars on every finding, including downside exposure. |
| Quality capture | PSI/HAC, POA, Elixhauser and CMS risk variables, and HCC where relevant. | YesPOA, HCC/RAF with MEAT evidence, and quality-sensitive codes flagged for review. |
| Prioritized worklists | Ranked by dollar impact, denial risk, and bill-hold deadline, with auto-assignment. | YesAll three rankings, with auto-assignment to your reviewers. |
| Realized-revenue reporting | Dashboards that attribute billed dollars, not projected ones; CMI, CC/MCC capture, acceptance rate. | YesA finding-to-payment ledger: surfaced, accepted, coded, billed, paid, and denied-after-billing. |
| No DNFB delay | Reviews finish within the bill-hold window. | YesPre-bill review runs inside your existing hold; concurrent findings recompute mid-stay. |
| Integration, security & commercial | ||
| EHR integration | Epic first, then Oracle Health and MEDITECH, via HL7/FHIR; findings reachable inside the workflow. | YesRead-only HL7 v2 / FHIR R4 connectors for Epic, Oracle Health, MEDITECH, and others. |
| Security certifications | SOC 2 Type II and a HIPAA BAA at minimum; HITRUST helps in the public sector. | HIPAA · BAASOC 2 Type II · roadmapHIPAA-compliant safeguards and a BAA today; SOC 2 Type II and HITRUST are on our roadmap. Details |
| Fast implementation | Live in 8 weeks or less, with a retrospective look-back that proves value before go-live. | YesTarget go-live in six weeks or less, with a free 90-day look-back first. |
| Outcome-aligned pricing | Contingency or at-risk pricing, at least as an option. | Yes$0 pilot, pay only on results — or a flat subscription if your census swings. |
| Appeals that finish the job | Generated letters are table stakes; look for submission, deadline tracking, and payer analytics. | YesDrafted with payer policy cited, submitted electronically, tracked to the deadline, overturns reported by payer. |
| Beyond table stakes | ||
| Payer-specific clinical criteria | Sepsis-2 vs Sepsis-3, ASPEN vs GLIM, KDIGO — chosen per payer, not one algorithm for all. | YesA versioned criteria registry per payer; the version applied is recorded on every finding. |
| Clinical-validation defensibility score | A reproducible measure of whether a diagnosis will survive payer review — with its arithmetic. | YesDeterministic 0–100 score; breakdown and scorer version stored with it. How it works |
| Model governance | Published precision and acceptance rates, versioned models, drift monitoring, documentation you can review. | YesRates by finding type in your console; shadow mode before release; model documentation under NDA. |
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