Denial Engine

Denial management · portfolio

From a denied claim to a corrected appeal — in minutes.

Paste an EOB excerpt or denial letter. Get a structured denial analysis, a proposed corrected claim, and a payer-ready appeal packet — every step grounded in the original denial text.

A focused denial-correction workflow — structured, auditable outputs for billers and denial teams. Demo runs on synthetic denials; the production path is BAA-gated and described on the architecture page.

Example case

1 denial · 3 steps
denialCO-16

Claim lacks information / missing modifier

analyzed · root cause identified

correct25

Append modifier 25 to the E/M line

correction proposed

appeal

Payer-ready appeal letter + attachments

packet generated

Appeal packetReady to export

One workflow, three grounded steps.

When a payer rejects a claim, the work is the same every time: read the denial, figure out the correction, and write a defensible appeal. The engine does each step as an explicit, inspectable model call.

Step 1

Analyze

Parse the EOB or denial letter into a structured analysis: CARC/RARC code, category, payer, claim ID, the payer's stated reason, and a suggested root cause — with a confidence score.

Step 2

Correct

Propose the corrected claim: revised CPT/HCPCS, modifiers, and ICD-10-CM pointers — or flag it as a workflow issue (e.g. missing prior auth) when no coding change applies — with a written rationale.

Step 3

Appeal

Generate a payer-ready appeal letter with reusable, defensible language, a suggested-attachments list, and submission instructions. Export the whole case as one print-ready packet.

Why this matters

Outpatient clinics and billing teams lose real revenue when denials are worked ad hoc — out of inboxes and one-off documents. Denial teams get a structured, inspectable system instead, with a record of what was changed and why.

For denial teams

  • Standardize how denials are parsed and corrected.
  • Generate consistent, payer-ready appeal letters.
  • Keep a structured record of what was changed and why.

For billing leadership

  • Track open, submitted, and resolved denials at a glance.
  • See dollars at risk and dollars recovered on appeal.
  • Move from improvised appeals to a repeatable process.

Who it's for

Built for teams that live in outpatient denials and appeals — and need a system that reflects real workflows instead of screenshots.

Outpatient clinics

  • Primary care, specialty, telehealth, urgent care.
  • Work denials without new EHR integrations.

Billing companies (RCM)

  • One denial-correction layer across multiple clinics.
  • Standardize how denials are corrected and appealed.

Telehealth & healthcare SaaS

  • Embed a denial workflow alongside existing tools.
  • Exportable packets for internal or external review.

Denial management teams

  • Move from ad-hoc appeals to a repeatable process.
  • Structured record of each denial and response.

Revenue-cycle leadership

  • Visibility into dollars at risk and overturn rates.
  • A defensible, auditable appeal trail.

Healthcare engineering teams

  • Working, inspectable architecture for denial handling.
  • Reference implementation for a real-world workflow.

What you get

A focused denial-correction tool with outputs that can be inspected, exported, and defended.

Engine

  • Denial reason parsing into a structured analysis.
  • Correction text for resubmission.
  • Structured appeal-letter generation.
  • One-click print-ready case packet (PDF).

Worklist

  • Queue of open, submitted, and resolved denials.
  • KPIs: open backlog, overturn rate, turnaround time.
  • Dollars at risk and recovered on appeal.
  • Top denial categories at a glance.

HIPAA-aware architecture — no marketing claim of compliance, just an honest, documented production path with BAA-gated model serving, encryption, audit logging, and a Safe Harbor de-identification boundary. Details on the architecture page.

Start from a denied claim

Paste a denial and walk it through analysis, correction, and appeal — or open the worklist to see how a denial team would triage a day's backlog.

Available for remote contract or full-time work on healthcare-AI systems — denial automation, clinical NLP, RCM automation, EHR integration. mrglenncarter@gmail.com.