Case study
Claims automation saves $1.5M annually with 22% efficiency gains
Leading health plan reduced rework by 10% and reallocated 30% of agents to higher-tier tasks
Sagility collaborated with the client’s newly formed unit charged with launching Robotic Process Automation (RPA) companywide. The Sagility team worked with the client to identify and select the right opportunities, at both pre-work in commercial claims and pend codes in Medicare Claims for automation.
Sagility’s team of 10 design and development resources identified and validated processes and supported both pre-work and pend code architecture design, development, implementation, testing, and documentation. The scope of RPA, leveraging 25 bots, addressed both medical and hospital claims at pre-work, with initial steps for solving an edit in manual adjudication to validate provider, subscriber, member, billing, coordination of benefits, and determination of content cleanliness. All steps were rule-based.
For the pend codes process, inefficiencies in payment were identified without referral authorization, for a downstream impact on rework and calls. By bucketing the claims and automating validation, duplicate logic/follow-up logics could be avoided and more accurate, quicker identification of claims for payment were released, for significant end-to-end process improvements on client payments.
The solution helped drive success in these areas:
Claims troubleshooting, root-causes analyses and actionable insights drove significant impact on the claims lifecycle. This included:
$1.5M annual cost savings
7M claims processed
22% efficiency gains, trimming 40 seconds off 3 minutes
30%agents reallocated to higher-tier work
10%rework reduction