Healthcare

Production-grade AI systems for eligibility, claims, prior auth, documentation, patient communication, and denial management - built into the systems your team already runs on.

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You are losing time and attention in predictable places.

The specifics differ. The same operational friction keeps appearing wherever this work crosses people, records, and decisions.

Eligibility checks eat staff hours before a patient is even seen.

01

Front-desk and intake teams re-verify coverage by phone or payer portal, one patient at a time - and gaps still slip through to become denied claims or surprise bills.

First point of friction

Claims go out with errors that show up weeks later as denials.

02

Coding mismatches, missing modifiers, and payer-specific formatting rules get caught after submission instead of before, and reconciliation against remittances is a manual, spreadsheet-driven chase.

Recurring operating cost

Prior authorization is a full-time job that delays care.

03

Assembling clinical documentation, filling payer-specific forms, and chasing peer-to-peer reviews stretches turnaround from days to weeks, and every hour of delay is an hour a patient waits or a procedure gets pushed.

Recurring operating cost

Clinical documentation burden is driving burnout.

04

Physicians finish the day's appointments and then spend hours writing notes into the EHR - time that comes out of evenings, not clinic capacity.

Recurring operating cost

Patient communication is reactive, not proactive.

05

No-shows, confusing bills, and unclear care-plan follow-up all trace back to the same root cause: nobody has time to reach patients before a problem becomes a phone call.

Recurring operating cost

Denials get fought one at a time instead of prevented.

06

Billing teams appeal claims individually without ever aggregating why they're being denied - so the same coding gap, missing documentation, or payer policy keeps costing money month after month.

Recurring operating cost

The operational lifecycle of healthcare.

Before we propose a system, we map the recurring surfaces of the operation and the work that moves through them.

01

Verify

Confirm eligibility, benefits, and the operational context before work reaches the care team.

  • Patient
  • Claim
  • Payer
02

Prepare

Assemble claim, authorization, or documentation work from the records already available.

  • Claim
  • Payer
  • Review
03

Reconcile

Track responses, denials, and missing inputs across payer and internal systems.

  • Payer
  • Review
04

Escalate

Send clinical or financial exceptions to the right person with the relevant source context.

  • Review

AI is infrastructure, not a replacement for your team.

The operation keeps its judgment. AI takes on the repeatable, system-to-system work that makes good people spend their time on administration.

AI handles

Repeatable work that slows the team down.

  • Eligibility and claim preparation
  • Document reconciliation
  • Routine patient communication drafts
  • Patient preparation and routing
  • Claim preparation and routing
  • Payer preparation and routing

Your team handles

The judgment, relationships, and accountability.

  • Clinical judgment and care decisions
  • Final coding and submission approval
  • Sensitive patient conversations
  • Anything irreversible or high consequence

Anything irreversible passes through a human.

The system can draft, organize, and surface the work. An authorized person decides and acts.

What we actually build.

Operational systems that connect the tools you already use. Not chatbots sitting next to the work.

System / 01

Eligibility & Benefits Engine

Manual eligibility verification means a staff member checking coverage per patient, per payer, often by phone - and it still doesn't catch every gap, which is how denied claims and unexpected patient bills happen. The Eligibility & Benefits Engine runs real-time verification against payer systems as part of intake and scheduling, flags coverage gaps and authorization requirements before the visit happens, and surfaces exceptions to staff instead of forcing them to check everything by default. The result is fewer denials traceable to eligibility, and front-desk time freed up for patients instead of phone hold music.

Outcome

Patient

System / 02

Claims Submission & Reconciliation

Claims errors are expensive precisely because they're invisible until a denial comes back - by which point the service was already delivered and the revenue is stuck in appeal. This engine validates claims against payer-specific rules before submission, catching coding and formatting issues at the point they're cheapest to fix, then reconciles submitted claims against remittances automatically and flags mismatches for review instead of leaving reconciliation as a manual, end-of-month scramble. Claims move faster, and the exceptions that do need a human get to one sooner.

Outcome

Claim

System / 03

Prior Authorization Engine

Every prior auth request means gathering clinical documentation, matching it to a payer's specific form and criteria, submitting, and then following up - often by phone - until a decision comes back. That process, multiplied across a full caseload, is where care gets delayed and staff time gets consumed. The Prior Authorization Engine assembles PA packets directly from chart data, tracks payer-specific requirements so nothing gets submitted incomplete, and follows up on outstanding requests automatically, giving staff a live status view instead of a stack of pending faxes. Turnaround shrinks from a staffing problem to a monitored process.

Outcome

Payer

System / 04

Ambient Documentation Assistant

Physicians didn't go into medicine to spend their evenings typing notes into an EHR, but that's where a meaningful share of the day goes. The Ambient Documentation Assistant listens to the clinical encounter with patient consent, drafts a structured note in EHR-ready format aligned to your existing documentation standards, and hands it to the physician to review and sign off - not to submit unreviewed. The physician stays the clinical author of record; the system removes the transcription and formatting labor sitting between the visit and a finished chart.

Outcome

Review

System / 05

Patient Communication Engine

Most patient-facing friction - missed appointments, confusion over a bill, a care plan nobody followed up on - comes down to the same gap: no one had the bandwidth to reach out before it became a problem. The Patient Communication Engine handles appointment reminders, plain-language explanations of bills and coverage, and care-plan follow-up across the channels patients actually use, and escalates to staff automatically when a conversation needs a human. It's not a replacement for your care team - it's what keeps routine communication from consuming their day.

Outcome

Patient

System / 06

Denial Root-Cause System

Denial management usually happens one claim at a time: a biller opens a denial, fights it, moves to the next one, and the underlying cause - a coding gap, a documentation shortfall, a payer policy change - never gets fixed upstream. The Denial Root-Cause System aggregates denial data across payers and claim types, identifies the patterns driving them, and feeds specific, actionable fixes back to coding, documentation, or intake - turning denial management from a permanent fire drill into a shrinking problem.

Outcome

Claim

In production.

One representative example of an operating system shipped around a real workflow.

Healthcare · Case study

Eligibility and claims checks before they became denials

Coverage verification and claim preparation were manual, creating avoidable denials and delayed follow-up.

Fits into the stack you already run.

We design around the systems of record. Integration scope comes from the real workflow, access rules, and decision boundaries - not a platform replacement plan.

Clinical systems

  • EHR
  • Scheduling
  • Patient portal

Revenue cycle

  • Clearinghouse
  • Payer portal
  • Billing system

Communication

  • Secure messaging
  • Call center
  • Document storage

Workflow & data

  • Workflow engine
  • Secure data store
  • Reporting
  • Automation

How we think about AI inside the operation.

The principles we use when we design, ship, and improve a system alongside the people who run it.

01

AI is operational infrastructure.

The work still belongs to your operation. We make the repetitive path reliable and visible.

02

Accuracy is the floor.

Each system needs a measurable baseline, source traceability, and a clear way to improve when it is wrong.

03

Operational fit beats novelty.

The best system sits inside the tools and habits your team already depends on.

04

People own judgment.

The system can prepare, route, and remember. Your team keeps the decisions that carry consequence.

Questions,
answered.

The things teams ask before the work begins.

Where should we start?+

Start where the work is frequent, visible, and costly when it goes wrong. The first mapping session identifies the people, systems, data, and controls around that workflow.

Do we need to replace current systems?+

We define the workflow, decision boundary, and system access before building. The first production system is designed to fit the operation and give the team a measurable result.

How do people retain control?+

We define the workflow, decision boundary, and system access before building. The first production system is designed to fit the operation and give the team a measurable result.

How long does the first system take?+

We define the workflow, decision boundary, and system access before building. The first production system is designed to fit the operation and give the team a measurable result.

How do we measure whether it works?+

We define the workflow, decision boundary, and system access before building. The first production system is designed to fit the operation and give the team a measurable result.

What access does the system need?+

We define the workflow, decision boundary, and system access before building. The first production system is designed to fit the operation and give the team a measurable result.

How is operational data protected?+

We define the workflow, decision boundary, and system access before building. The first production system is designed to fit the operation and give the team a measurable result.

Can the system work across several teams?+

We define the workflow, decision boundary, and system access before building. The first production system is designed to fit the operation and give the team a measurable result.

What happens after the first system ships?+

We define the workflow, decision boundary, and system access before building. The first production system is designed to fit the operation and give the team a measurable result.

Start with the work

Bring the workflow that needs attention.

Pick a time for a working session or send a short brief. Either way, we will come prepared to understand where the work gets stuck.

Talk through the work

Book a 20-minute consultation.

Bring the workflow that feels slow or fragile. We will determine whether it is a sensible candidate for an AI system.

Bartosz LuderaBartosz LuderaFounder, Harnessloop

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