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Clinical Practice · Bucket 02 · Healthcare BAA available

8-provider primary care group. $220K a year
buried in prior auth backlogs and patient no-shows.

Prior auth turnaround averages 7-10 days with a 30% denial rate. Patient no-show rates run 15-25%. Insurance verification lag costs $80 per claim re-work. Charting eats 2 hours per provider per day. Patient recall lapses leave 25% of your panel past due. LouDNAi deploys nine BAA-eligible agents — purpose-built for clinical practices — that close the gap in 21 days.

$80K–$300K
Recoverable / year
typical practice
~7×
Net upside
vs. annual platform fees
21 days
Kickoff to live
BAA executed first
9
Named agents
BAA-eligible Fleet
$6,500/mo
Fleet pricing
BAA infrastructure included
Five clinical sub-verticals · the Fleet adapts to each

Where you sit in the clinical stack.

Same nine BAA-eligible archetypes parameterized per sub-vertical. A primary care practice's Patient Recall and a specialty group's Prior Auth Bot run on the same backbone — different schemas, different EHR integrations (Athenahealth, Epic, eClinicalWorks, NextGen), different volume thresholds.

SUB 02

Solo / Small Practice

1–4 providers · concierge or insurance
Top leakCharting + recall + verification. Recovery: $50K–$120K/yr.
SUB 03

Urgent Care

High-volume walk-in clinics
Top leakInsurance verification + no-call returns. Recovery: $100K–$220K/yr.
SUB 04

Specialty Practice

Cardiology · Dermatology · Endocrinology · etc.
Top leakPrior auth backlog (~40% denial). Recovery: $120K–$300K/yr.
SUB 05

Concierge Medicine

Membership-based · low volume / high touch
Top leakMember retention + lifecycle. Recovery: $60K–$150K/yr.
Five pain points · ranked by what they cost you

Five places your $220,000 leaks out every year.

Numbers from MGMA, AMA, AHIP, and named-on-file practice manager interviews. Each leak paired to a BAA-eligible named agent.

01

Prior Authorization Backlog & Denials

Industry data: prior authorization turnaround averages 7–10 business days. First-pass denial rate: ~30% (specialty: ~40%). Each prior auth requires ~22 minutes of staff time on initial submission, plus another 40-60 minutes on appeals if denied. Multi-provider practices maintain 0.5–2 FTEs of dedicated prior auth staff. Lost revenue from procedures not performed because auth never came through: ~$2,400 per cancelled appointment.

"I have one full-time staff member who does nothing but prior auths. She's worth her weight in gold and we still have a 30-day backlog. We turn down patients we can't get auth for in time."— Practice manager, 12-provider primary care, named on file
7–10 days avg turnaround30% denial rate$2,400 per cancelled appt
$110K
Annual bleed
8-provider practice
→ Prior Auth Bot
02

Patient No-Show Rate

Industry-average primary care no-show rate: 15–25%. Specialty: 8–15%. Average value of a no-show slot: $200–$300 in primary care, $450+ in specialty. Best-in-class practices using SMS reminders + automated waitlist filling cut no-shows by 40–60%. The leak isn't just lost revenue — it's underutilized provider capacity that compounds across the year.

"We started SMS reminders 2 days, 1 day, and 2 hours before. Cut no-shows from 22% to 11% in a quarter. That's $80K of slot value back."— Office manager, 6-provider practice, named on file
15–25% no-show (primary care)$200–$300 per slot40–60% reduction with reminders
$60K
Annual bleed
8-provider practice
→ Schedule Sentinel
03

Insurance Verification Lag

Average claim re-work cost when insurance wasn't verified ahead of visit: $80 per claim. Industry-average insurance verification rate at point of service: ~72%. Best-in-class: ~95%. The 23-point gap on a practice billing $4M annually = ~$50K/year in claim re-work. Plus another $20K-$40K in patient bad debt when patients didn't know what they owed.

"We get the claim back denied because the patient's insurance changed last week. By then the visit happened, the patient is gone, and we're chasing $180 we'll never collect."— Billing manager, 10-provider practice, named on file
$80 per re-work72% verification at PoS95% best-in-class
$30K
Annual bleed
$4M practice
→ Insurance Verifier
04

Provider Charting Time Burden

The JAMA Internal Medicine 2023 study: physicians spend 1.84 hours per day on EHR documentation outside scheduled hours ("pajama time"). At a $250/hr loaded cost per provider, that's $460/day per provider in opportunity cost — or $115K/yr per provider if that time were productive. Charting Assist (HITL only — never autonomous) cuts this by 40–60%.

"My docs are charting until 9 PM most nights. They burn out, leave for hospital systems, and now I'm interviewing replacements. Charting time is the #1 reason providers quit private practice."— Owner, 6-provider practice, named on file
1.84 hrs/day EHR pajama time$460/day per provider40–60% typical reduction
$15K
Annual bleed
conservative · per provider
→ Charting Assist (HITL)
05

Patient Recall Lapses

Industry pattern: 22–30% of established patients are past due on annual physical, follow-up appointment, or chronic-disease management visit. Standard recall systems (postcards, manual phone calls) reach ~18% of those past-due patients. Multi-channel recall (SMS + email + voice) reaches ~52%. The gap on a 5,000-patient practice: ~1,400 missed visits/year × ~$220 average value = $30K-$80K.

"We pulled our recall list last quarter. 1,200 patients past due on annual physicals. Our front-desk team called the first 100 — got 38 to book. The other 1,100 stayed on the list."— Practice manager, 5-provider practice, named on file
22–30% past-due rate18% reach with mail52% reach with multi-channel
$40K
Annual bleed
typical 5K-patient panel
→ Patient Recall
Nine BAA-eligible agents · the Clinical Fleet

Nine named agents. Each owns an outcome.
HITL gates enforced where outputs touch clinical decisions.

Default Clinical Fleet ships with five (Patient Recall, Prior Auth Bot, Insurance Verifier, Schedule Sentinel, Guardian) plus expansion archetypes. Charting Assist runs HITL-only — the agent drafts; a licensed provider reviews and signs. No autonomous clinical documentation under any circumstance.

AGENT 01
Patient Recall
Multi-channel recall · SMS + email + voice

Reactivates past-due patients via SMS, email, and voice fallback. Books appointments directly into Athenahealth / Epic / eClinicalWorks. Cuts past-due reach rate from ~18% to ~52%.

Trigger
Continuous · per recall window
Output
Booked appointment · scheduled follow-up
Recovers
~$40K/yr · 5K-patient panel
AGENT 02
Prior Auth Bot
Prior authorization submission + appeals

Submits prior auths against payor portals (CoverMyMeds, payer portals, fax). Drafts appeals when denied. Reduces 30% denial rate to ~12%. Cuts staff time from 22 min/auth to ~6 min.

Trigger
Auth required for procedure
Output
Submitted auth · approval/denial tracking
Recovers
~$110K/yr · 8-provider practice
AGENT 03
Insurance Verifier
Real-time insurance verification

Verifies insurance eligibility 48 hours and 4 hours before visit via Availity / pVerify / Waystar. Flags coverage gaps. Drives verification rate from 72% to 95%+.

Trigger
Pre-visit · 48hr + 4hr
Output
Verified eligibility + patient comms
Recovers
~$30K/yr · $4M practice
AGENT 04
Charting Assist (HITL only)
Draft documentation · HITL-only

Never autonomous. Drafts SOAP notes, ICD-10/CPT coding suggestions, and patient communication from encounter recording. Provider reviews and signs every draft. Cuts pajama-time charting by 40–60%.

Trigger
Encounter complete
Output
Draft note · provider must sign
HITL gate
Always · enforced in code
AGENT 05
Schedule Sentinel
No-show prevention + waitlist filling

SMS + email reminders 2 days, 1 day, 2 hours before visit. Auto-fills cancellations from waitlist. Cuts no-show rate from 22% to ~11%. Patient SMS responses route to scheduler.

Trigger
Continuous
Output
Reminders + filled slots
Recovers
~$60K/yr · 8-provider practice
AGENT 06
Site Voice
After-hours intake + appointment booking

Answers when CSR can't. Schedules appointments directly. Routes urgent issues to on-call. BAA-executed Twilio HIPAA-eligible voice products only.

Trigger
Inbound call
Output
Booked appointment · on-call routing
Integrates
Twilio HIPAA-eligible
AGENT 07
Compass
Practice manager's strategic assistant

Daily briefing for practice owner / manager. Today's prior auth queue. This week's no-show rate. This month's recall reach. Quarterly trends against MGMA benchmarks.

Trigger
Daily 7:00 AM
Output
Brief + decisions
Integrates
All other agents
AGENT 08
Guardian (HIPAA)
HIPAA + state · BAA flow-down

HIPAA Privacy Rule + Security Rule compliance. Workforce training tracking. BAA flow-down management for sub-processors. Annual HIPAA risk assessment. State-specific medical privacy law tracking.

Trigger
Continuous + scheduled
Output
Compliance posture + alerts
BAA
Required · executed before deploy
AGENT 09
Helix Memory
Institutional memory · the moat

Every patient interaction, every prior auth justification, every payor relationship, every state-specific quirk — indexed and retrievable. Stored in pgvector self-hosted in LouDNAi VPC for PHI workloads.

Trigger
All agent activity
Output
Searchable knowledge graph
Substrate
pgvector · BAA-covered
⚠ HITL gates enforced in code · no exceptions

Charting Assist, prior auth submissions involving clinical decisions, and any output that affects patient care passes through a Human-in-the-Loop gate that cannot be disabled by customer configuration. The gate is enforced in code, not policy. LouDNAi does not provide medical advice; agents draft, providers decide.

Recoverable revenue calculator · Clinical-specific

Run the math against your practice.

Live calculator launches v1.1. The DNA Scan replaces these with measurements from your Athenahealth / Epic / eClinicalWorks / NextGen EHR.

Annual recoverable revenue
$255,000
Sample: 8-provider primary care, 12K patient panel
Prior Auth Bot $110K · Schedule Sentinel $60K · Patient Recall $40K · Insurance Verifier $30K · Charting Assist $15K (conservative). Net of $78K annual Fleet cost: ~$177K. ~3.3× ROI year one, ~5× steady-state.
Compliance posture · BAA executed before any PHI flows

Compliance that your privacy officer can verify.

Every Clinical Fleet ships under an executed Business Associate Agreement. PHI workloads route only to BAA-eligible LLM tiers. No exceptions, no shortcuts.

BAA executed before deploy

Standard BAA in 7-14 days. Customer template accepted with 5-10 day legal review. Sub-processor BAA flow-down enforced.

BAA process →

BAA-eligible LLM routing

Anthropic Enterprise · OpenAI Enterprise · Google Cloud HIPAA-eligible. Zero data retention configured. PHI never to non-BAA tiers.

HIPAA architecture →

SOC 2 Type 1 audit in flight

Trust Services Criteria: Security, Availability, Confidentiality. Q3 2026 issuance.

SOC 2 disclosure →
Clinical pricing · BAA infrastructure included

How you start.

Clinical Fleet pricing reflects BAA-eligible LLM routing premium and HIPAA infrastructure costs. The DNA Scan funds itself.

Diagnostic · entry
Operational DNA Scan
$9,500fixed
21 days · BAA executed before any PHI access

Maps your operational DNA against Athenahealth / Epic / eClinicalWorks / NextGen. Quantifies recoverable dollars.

Single agent · specialty
Instant Agent
$8,500fixed
14 days · 1 BAA-eligible agent

Premium reflects BAA infrastructure for single PHI-touching agent. Typically Patient Recall or Insurance Verifier.

Right now in your office, your prior auth queue is six days deep
and three patients are about to cancel because authorization didn't come through.

One practice. Eight providers. $5M revenue. Recoverable: ~$255K/year. The DNA Scan tells you exactly which BAA-eligible agents recover it — in 21 days, for $9,500, fully credited toward Fleet within 60 days.