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Claims intake and clinical documentation automation.

60%

Less admin time

3.2M

Claims/yr

8 wks

To production

99.4%

Field accuracy

The challenge

Where operations were breaking down.

Care teams across 18 facilities were spending up to 40% of clinical hours on documentation: patient intake forms, prior-authorization paperwork, and claims adjudication. The administrative tax was eroding patient-facing time and contributing to clinician burnout.

Claims processing was particularly painful. A typical claim moved through six handoffs before reaching the payer, each one introducing transcription errors that caused downstream denials. Rework cycles were running at 14% of total volume.

Leadership needed a system that could ingest both structured (EHR) and unstructured (faxes, scanned forms, handwriting) inputs, normalize them, and route them through the existing claims pipeline, without forcing clinicians to change their documentation habits.

Our approach

How Aelix Nexus was deployed.

01

Multi-modal document AI

OCR and handwriting models handle scanned intake forms, faxed referrals, and prior-auth letters. Structured data flows directly from the EHR via FHIR connectors.

02

Clinical NLP extraction

Named-entity recognition pulls diagnosis codes, procedure codes, and supporting documentation from free-text physician notes with confidence scoring.

03

Claims routing agents

AI agents validate completeness against payer-specific rules and route claims down the right pathway. Exceptions queue for human review with full context.

04

Audit-grade trail

Every extraction and routing decision is logged with model version, confidence, and reviewer ID, meeting HIPAA audit and payer dispute requirements.

Architecture in production

From source data to operational action.

Stage 01

EHR + documents

FHIR streams from the EHR plus scanned intake forms, faxes, and prior-auth letters.

Stage 02

OCR + NLP

Document AI extracts structured data; clinical NLP pulls diagnosis and procedure codes.

Stage 03

Validation agents

AI agents check completeness against payer-specific rules and flag exceptions.

Stage 04

Submission + audit

Validated claims submitted to payers; every decision logged with model version and confidence.

Measured outcomes

Operational gains after going live.

0%

Less administrative time

Across clinical and revenue-cycle teams, time freed up for patient-facing work.

3.2M

Claims processed annually

Across 18 facilities, with consistent accuracy regardless of intake source.

14% → 4%

Claim denial rate

Upfront validation catches errors before submission instead of after rejection.

8 wks

From kickoff to production

FHIR-native integration with existing EHR meant no clinician workflow changes.

0.0%

Field-level accuracy

On structured fields across both typed and handwritten document sources.

$4.6M

Annualized recovery

Combined denial-rate reduction, faster reimbursement cycles, and rework elimination.

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