Worked scenario
The consultation ends and the claim takes three weeks
Claim rejections are usually caused by information that was available during the visit and not captured while the patient was still present.
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An insured consultation generates a second piece of work that happens after the patient leaves: assembling the claim. It is done by someone who was not in the room, from records written for clinical purposes rather than for an insurer.
Why rejections repeat
Because the reason for a rejection is dealt with case by case and never aggregated. The same missing field causes the same rejection across dozens of claims, and nobody sees the pattern because each one is handled as an individual problem.
Capture at the point of care
Most of what an insurer needs is known during the visit — policy details, referral, diagnosis coding. Capturing it then costs seconds. Reconstructing it later costs a phone call to a patient who has moved on.
Claims are receivables
A clinic that would never let a cash patient's bill age for sixty days routinely lets claims do exactly that, because they sit in a different mental category. Ageing them like any other debtor changes how they are chased, and it is usually the single largest improvement in a clinic's cash position.
What changes
- Required claim fields captured during the visit, not reconstructed later
- Claim status tracked per patient rather than as a pile
- Rejection reasons recorded so the same cause stops recurring
- Outstanding claims visible as an ageing figure, like any other receivable
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