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Pre-Encounter Review & Patient Confirmation

Identify and Resolve Discrepancies Before the Patient Arrives

Appointment-day problems are almost never appointment-day problems. The missing referral, the changed policy, the authorization that never came back — all of it existed days earlier, and nobody looked.

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Appointment readiness

Reviewed 2 days out

Readiness4 of 5 clear
  • Attendance confirmed
  • Demographics verified
  • Insurance active
  • Referral on file
  • Authorization outstanding

Escalated

Authorization gap routed to the pre-authorization team — two days before the visit, not on arrival.

Key benefits

What this changes for your practice

Pre-Encounter Review is the department that looks. We contact patients ahead of their appointment, confirm every detail the visit depends on, and route what we find to the teams who can fix it while there is still time.

  • The schedule holds

    Confirmed attendance and early rescheduling protect provider time that would otherwise be lost to a no-show.

  • Problems surface while they are fixable

    An insurance change found two days out is an administrative task; found at check-in it is a cancelled visit.

  • Check-in gets faster

    Demographics, coverage and documentation are already confirmed and updated in your system.

What we handle

Everything included in pre-encounter review

The full scope of work we take ownership of — agreed with your team during onboarding and adjusted as your needs change.
  • Pre-appointment calls
  • Appointment confirmation
  • Date and time confirmation
  • Provider confirmation
  • Location confirmation
  • Attendance confirmation
  • Rescheduling
  • Scheduling discrepancy identification
  • Demographic confirmation
  • Insurance confirmation
  • Insurance discrepancy identification
  • Authorization issue identification
  • Referral verification
  • Documentation verification
  • Appointment reminders
  • Follow-ups
  • EMR/EHR updates
  • Communication documentation

In detail

The full scope, broken down

Each area below is handled by the same department, so nothing falls between two of them.

What this prevents

The objective is a visit with nothing outstanding on arrival.

  • Fewer no-shows
  • Fewer last-minute cancellations
  • Fewer scheduling errors
  • Fewer insurance discrepancies
  • Fewer missing authorizations
  • Fewer missing referrals
  • Fewer missing documents
  • Fewer appointment-day issues

How it works

The workflow, step by step

A defined, repeatable process — so you always know where a piece of work is and who has it.

  1. Upcoming schedule review

    We work the upcoming appointment list and identify what each visit depends on.

  2. Patient contact

    Patients are called to confirm attendance, date, time, provider, location and demographics.

  3. Discrepancy identification

    Insurance, authorization, referral and documentation gaps are identified and escalated to the right department.

  4. Update & document

    Your EMR/EHR is updated and the communication is documented so the front desk sees a clean record.

Why it matters

Every appointment-day failure has an upstream cause and a window in which it could have been fixed. Pre-encounter review is the department that uses that window.

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Connected workflow

Departments this one works with

Information moves between these teams as a matter of routine — which is what makes running them inside one organisation worth doing.
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Next step

Ready to hand off pre-encounter review?

Tell us about your practice and current workflow. We'll outline what support would look like and which engagement model fits.

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