Anomaly Announces AI-powered Smart Response to Prevent Claim Denials and Rework with Precision

 Anomaly, a precision payments company streamlining healthcare billing and payments for providers and payers, today announced its new offering Anomaly Smart Response.

Smart Response uses AI to enable providers and payers to reduce avoidable claim denials and rework and increase payment transparency, top priorities for healthcare stakeholders. The product gives providers a real-time response predicting actionable denials and payment amounts—so providers can correct and avoid denials before they occur. Smart Response operates directly within providers' native workflows by integrating with payers, practice management software and claims clearinghouses.

Smart Response is powered by Anomaly's breakthrough AI claim prediction engine. The engine analyzes thousands of parameters and billions of claims to learn payer-specific rules and nuances for each provider. By continuously analyzing data in real-time, Smart Response stays up-to-date and automatically adapts to changing trends and new payer rules. Smart Response accurately predicts claim line denials and reasons with over 97% precision, based on an analysis of over $100 billion of billed charges through June 2022. The engine is focused on actionable denial scenarios, and is able to achieve this best-in-class level of precision for up to half of total denials (recall) across thousands of payers, all 50 states, and all lines of business (Commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid). Anomaly plans to extend its engine to predict final payment amounts (real-time adjudication) and patient responsibilities, which will further increase transparency in the payment process for all stakeholders.

Industry reports and Anomaly's analysis have found that more than 10% of claims are typically denied, a growing problem tied to increasing billing complexity alongside value-based care and disruptions such as COVID-19. Denials and associated rework cause payment delays and contribute to burnout amongst overstretched providers and staff. At the same time, the issue of denials and appeals drives unnecessary administrative costs for payers and abrasion with their provider network and members—especially for the significant percentage of denied claims that eventually get paid. Ultimately patients are often caught in the middle, causing added stress from denial notices or even balance bills.

"Smart Response is a natural extension of Anomaly's predictive AI engine and fits within our core mission to bring unprecedented precision and transparency to healthcare payments," said Jacob Shiff, co-founder and CEO of Anomaly. "Using AI to analyze information from billions of claims, Smart Response provides real-time, actionable insights so providers and payers can avoid unnecessary cost and abrasion from denials and rework, and patients can get the care they deserve."

Smart Response complements Anomaly's planned suite of products powered by its AI claim prediction engine, including overpayment prediction, which enables payers to predict and prevent overpayments by learning from previously overpaid claims, and instant payments, which will enable providers to immediately get paid upon claim submission.

Anomaly recently raised $17 million to grow its team, invest further in product development, and expand its market presence.

About Anomaly

Anomaly is a billing and payments platform that uses artificial intelligence to enable fast, accurate healthcare payments—reducing costs and complexity. Founded in 2020 and led by a team of top engineers, billing and payment integrity experts and healthcare industry veterans, Anomaly reduces friction between payers and providers by ensuring precise payments and seamless claims adjudication. The company is headquartered in New York City, and is backed by Redesign Health and leading investors RRE, Link Ventures, Madrona, and Declaration Partners. For more information, visit www.findanomaly.com.

SOURCE Anomaly