For revenue cycle leaders in behavioral health

You’re losing earned revenue to denials you can fix

You’re standing up denial and AR recovery across a multi-state book of Medicaid, commercial, and military payers. We trace every denial to its root cause and run the fix to get paid. Built for behavioral health, running on the systems your team already uses.

Read-only exportNo EHR connectionResults in one week
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Scripps Mercy Physician PartnersOak Street HealthMedallionIntelRoivantVantaCentene

The autopsy

The denial says no-auth. The auth was there.

Most tools flag a denial and hand you a worklist. We trace it to where the claim actually broke, often somewhere the denial code never points, and run the fix to get paid.

The denial

The remit comes back CO-197, precertification/authorization absent. On a worklist, that’s an open-and-shut no-auth write-off.

What a worklist does

Flags the code and drops it in a queue. A biller calls the payer, can’t find the auth, and the dollars start aging toward timely-filing.

What we trace

The authorization existed. It was filed under the facility NPI, but the claim went out under the rendering provider, so the payer never matched them. The code pointed at the wrong problem.

The fix

Re-reference the auth to the billed NPI, correct the claim, and resubmit with the auth number cited. No phone tree, no rework cycle.

Paid

The claim adjudicates on resubmission. The dollars were always earned, just stuck behind a misroute the code disguised.

Behavioral health revenue-cycle specialist reviewing claims

Recoverable identified

$312K

across 100 denials

Top root cause

Carve-out misroute

38% of the dollars

Avg. time to fix

6 days

back-end zone

The diagnostic

A real root-cause map of your denials, in one week

Send a read-only export of your last 100 denials. You get back where each claim actually broke, how much is recoverable, and which fixes move the most money. No EHR connection, no clinical data.

Built for

  • Multi-state behavioral health orgs
  • Commercial + military (TRICARE/VA) payer mix
  • Teams standing up a denial / AR recovery function
  • Running an in-house billing team and/or a BPO

Not built for

  • Generic medical practices
  • Hospital RCM departments

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Why behavioral health is different

The leakage is structural to behavioral health

Generic RCM tools miss the same intersection: the payer-by-payer rules, from Medicaid to TRICARE, that decide whether a behavioral health denial actually gets recovered.

Medicaid as the dominant payer

Medicaid is the largest behavioral health payer, and the rules move by state, plan, and managed-care org. Unit limits, auth windows, and medical-necessity criteria differ in every market, so we work each state's Medicaid and MCO logic, not a national average.

Carve-outs and MBHOs

Behavioral benefits are carved out to managed behavioral health orgs, so claims misroute before anyone reads the chart. We know where they go and where they get lost.

Prior auth at ~5x physical medicine

BH gets hit with authorization requirements far more often than physical medicine, so auth-related denials pile up faster than a lean team can work them.

Graduated levels of care

PHP, IOP, and outpatient each carry distinct billing and utilization rules. A unit edit that’s correct at one level is a denial at the next.

Narrative documentation

Medical necessity rides on narrative notes, not objective markers, so these denials are common and the fix lives in the record, not a code.

TRICARE and VA dual workflow

Orgs serving military and veteran populations run a dual TRICARE/VA contractor workflow on top of everything else. We’re built for that mix, not just commercial.

42 CFR Part 2 confidentiality

Substance-use records carry consent rules beyond HIPAA. Recovery has to respect them, so the system is scaffolded for 42 CFR from the start.

How the fixing actually works

Fixing isn’t one thing, so we don’t pretend it is

Recovery spans three zones, each with a different level of automation and a different level of access.

Auto-fixed

Back-end · claims level

No EHR or clinical touch. The system diagnoses the break, corrects the claim, and resubmits to get paid. This is where the guarantee lives.

Auth-not-referenced · carve-out misroutes · coding & unit edits · COB · timely filing

Semi-automated

Front-end · registration & eligibility

Touches the PMS. We detect the error, correct it, and prevent the next one before the claim ever goes out.

Wrong plan or subscriber captured · missed carve-out · lapsed eligibility

Human-in-the-loop

Clinical documentation

The highest-value, most sensitive zone. We detect the gap and draft an addendum or appeal referencing the record. Your clinician reviews and attests.

Medical-necessity gaps · missing ASAM / LOCUS elements

We never generate and submit documentation as if the clinician wrote it.

Onboarding as de-risking

Clinical access is earned, not asked for on day one

You don’t hand over the chart to find out if this works. Each phase opens only after the last one pays off.

Phase 0 · Diagnostic

Read-only denial export

Send your last 100 denials. No EHR connection, no clinical data. You get a real root-cause map and a recoverable number.

Phase 1 · Recover

Back-end denials

Connect the clearinghouse. We auto-fix and resubmit the claims-level denials, the zone the guarantee covers.

Phase 2 · Prevent

Front-end & eligibility

Add the PMS and eligibility feed. We correct registration errors and stop the next denial before submission.

Phase 3 · Clinical

Deepest integration

The most sensitive zone: 42 CFR scaffolding and concurrent-review tracking. Earned only after we’ve recovered real money.

Most teams start and stay at Phase 0 until the recoverable number speaks for itself.

The guarantee

Proven on your denials, before you commit anything

We don’t lead with a revenue multiple we can’t prove. We lead with a recoverable number built from your own claims, and a guarantee behind the recovery.

Your own denials

Not a stock case study. The recoverable number comes from your last 100 denials, scored against your payer mix.

One week

Send a read-only export and get a real root-cause map back: where each claim broke and what’s recoverable.

Downside guarantee

The diagnostic is zero-risk, and recovery is backed by a downside guarantee. If we don’t recover, you’re not out the dollars.

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The diagnostic

Send us your last 100 denials

Get a real root-cause map and a recoverable number in one week. Your data, zero risk, backed by a downside guarantee.

Read-only export, no EHR connectionRoot-cause map back in one weekZero-risk, backed by a downside guarantee

We only use the export to build your root-cause map. No EHR connection, no clinical data.

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