Central for Orthopedics

Six weeks of documented care before MRI approval.

Advanced imaging through the radiology benefit manager. Surgical auths that need the clinical attached. DME that needs its own approval after the surgery is already booked. Central works all three, in the portals your staff already log into.

Your data stays yours. Encrypted in transit & at rest, no training on your data.

YOUR WEEK

We already know where your week goes.

Three things every orthopedics practice we speak to describes, usually in the first ten minutes.

  1. The imaging gate

eviCore and Carelon want six weeks of documented conservative care before a 73721 goes through. The note exists. Somebody still has to find it, attach it, and submit it.

AI AGENT

  1. The second auth nobody planned for

The surgery is approved. The knee brace, the CPM, the bone stimulator are a separate authorisation, on a separate form, often to a separate DME benefit.

AI AGENT

  1. Peer-to-peer roulette

A denial comes back and the only route is a peer-to-peer inside 72 hours. Your surgeon is in theatre. The window closes.

AI AGENT

HOW WE WORK IT

The whole chain, not the first link.

Every step says whether an agent or one of our specialists did it. Nothing clinical or contentious is left to software.

01

Order lands

An MRI or CT order drops from the surgeon. We read the note, pull the conservative-care history and check whether the payer routes through eviCore or Carelon.

Auth Submitted

02

Determination Chased

03

Denial Resolved

04

Auths Chased Together

05

01

Order lands

An MRI or CT order drops from the surgeon. We read the note, pull the conservative-care history and check whether the payer routes through eviCore or Carelon.

Auth Submitted

02

Determination Chased

03

Denial Resolved

04

Auths Chased Together

05

A day on the desk.

What 24/7 actually looks like. Illustrative, based on the volumes practices tell us they run.

6:00 AM

Tomorrow is already verified

Every appointment on the next day's schedule has been checked overnight. Clean patients pass silently

8:40 PM

A late add-on appears

A same-day booking lands. It is verified within the hour, not at check-in.

1:10 PM

A portal goes quiet

UnitedHealthcare returns nothing useful, so the agent calls instead and works the phone tree.

4:25 AM

A lapse is found

A Humana plan shows terminated. A specialist calls the patient before tomorrow rather than after.

11:00 PM

The next day runs

The cycle repeats for the following day's schedule while the practice is closed.

The agent does one half. Our people do the other.

You are not buying software with gaps in it. You are buying the outcome, and both halves are included.

Everything repetitive.

Everything repetitive.

Checks eligibility ahead of every visit

Checks eligibility ahead of every visit

Calls the payer and navigates the IVR when the portal will not say

Calls the payer and navigates the IVR when the portal will not say

Captures plan, group, copay, deductible and remaining benefit

Captures plan, group, copay, deductible and remaining benefit

Re-verifies when a plan changes mid-cycle

Re-verifies when a plan changes mid-cycle

Re-verifies when a plan changes mid-cycle

Everything that needs judgment.

Reads the ambiguous responses a portal returns

Reads the ambiguous responses a portal returns

Handles coordination-of-benefits and secondary payers


Handles coordination-of-benefits and secondary payers

Handles coordination-of-benefits and secondary payers

Chases the plan that will not confirm


Chases the plan that will not confirm

Flags patients who need a financial conversation

Flags patients who need a financial conversation