Eligibility · Benefits · Prior auth

Know the coverage before the patient walks in.

RCMMonks checks eligibility, benefits, and authorization requirements ahead of every visit. Your claims go out clean, your front desk collects the right amount, and your billers stop chasing denials that never needed to happen.

HIPAA-trained team · No long-term lock-in · Works inside your PM or EHR

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verification accuracy, audited weekly
24–48 hrs
standard turnaround, with a same-day lane for add-ons
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typical drop in eligibility-related denials within 90 days
100%
of checks logged with a reference number you can pull up later
The problem

Most denials are decided before the claim is ever filed

Somewhere between 15 and 20 percent of claim denials trace back to eligibility. A policy that lapsed in March. A plan that changed at renewal. A member ID typed from last year's card. The claim was doomed the moment the patient checked in, and nobody knew.

Everything that follows is cleanup. The rework, the appeal, the phone queue, the write-off. Practices spend real money fixing problems that cost a few minutes to prevent.

We work at the other end of the pipeline. Verify properly before the visit, and most of those denials simply never exist. That is the entire business.

CO-27Expenses incurred after coverage terminated. Nobody re-checked the policy after renewal season.
CO-22Care may be covered by another payer. Coordination of benefits was never established.
CO-197Authorization absent. The procedure needed pre-approval and no one flagged it in time.
RCMMonksAll three caught 2–3 days before the appointment, while there was still time to fix them.
What we do

One discipline, done thoroughly

We are not trying to be your everything vendor. We handle the front end of the revenue cycle, the part that decides whether the rest of it goes smoothly.

Eligibility verification

We confirm active coverage directly with the payer: plan type, effective dates, group number, subscriber details. Portal, EDI 270/271, or a phone call when the portal is wrong.

Before every visit

Benefits verification

Copay, coinsurance, deductible met and remaining, out-of-pocket maximums, visit limits, exclusions. Documented by service line so the desk knows exactly what to collect.

By service line

Prior authorization

We flag procedures that need approval before they are scheduled, prepare the documentation, submit it, and follow up until there is an answer on record.

Flag · Submit · Follow up

Coordination of benefits

When a patient has more than one plan, we establish which one pays first, so the claim does not bounce between payers for a month while your A/R ages.

Primary vs secondary

Demographic scrubbing

Wrong member IDs, misspelled names, and outdated plan data get corrected before verification starts, not discovered six weeks later on a denial report.

Clean data in

Posting and reporting

Verified details go straight into your PM or EHR, with a daily log of what was checked, what changed since last time, and what needs your attention.

In your system, not ours
How we work

A schedule goes in. Verified coverage comes out.

The workflow is deliberately boring. Boring is what makes it reliable at volume.

1

You share the schedule

Send us your appointment list two to three days ahead, or give us read access to your scheduler and we pull it ourselves. Add-on patients go into a same-day lane.

2

We scrub the data first

Names, dates of birth, member IDs, and plan details get checked against what is on file. Bad data is fixed here, because a payer lookup on a wrong ID just returns a confident wrong answer.

3

We check with the payer

Payer portals and EDI 270/271 transactions cover most of it. When a portal is stale or contradicts itself, we pick up the phone and get a reference number from a live representative.

4

We document the benefits

Not just active or inactive. Copays and coinsurance by service, deductible progress, visit caps, exclusions, referral rules, and whether anything on the schedule needs prior authorization.

5

We post it to your system

Everything is entered into your PM or EHR before the visit, in the fields your team already uses. Nobody on your staff re-keys anything from a spreadsheet.

6

You get the exceptions

Inactive coverage, missing authorizations, and COB conflicts come to you as a short flagged list, with enough lead time to reschedule, collect upfront, or fix the record.

The name

Why call ourselves monks?

Verification is not glamorous work. It is the same careful check, done correctly, hundreds of times a day. It rewards patience, routine, and attention span, and it punishes shortcuts about three weeks later, on a denial report.

Monks seemed like the right name for people who do that kind of work well. We did not chase the flashiest corner of the revenue cycle. We picked one discipline, the front end, and we practice it every single day.

Patience

We stay on hold with the payer so your staff never has to.

Routine

Every check follows the same written procedure, every time.

Record

Every answer gets a reference number and a timestamp.

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The difference

What you usually get, and what you get from us

A typical verification vendor
RCMMonks
Batch check the night before, so there is no time to act on problems
Checks run 2–3 days ahead, with a same-day lane for add-ons
Stops at "active" or "inactive" and calls it verified
Full benefits by service line, including auth requirements and COB
A rotating call-center queue that never learns your payers
A fixed team assigned to your account that knows your payer mix
Hands you a spreadsheet and leaves the re-keying to your staff
Verified data posted directly into your PM or EHR
A denial shows up later and it is somebody else's problem
Every eligibility denial comes back to us for root cause, on record
Who we work with

Built for the practices that feel eligibility pain first

High visit volume, benefit-heavy plans, and frequent authorization rules are where front-end errors cost the most. That is where we spend our time.

Dental & DSOs Physician groups Behavioral health Physical & occupational therapy Imaging centers DME suppliers Specialty clinics Medical billing companies
Getting started

Your first thirty days with us

No six-month implementation. No committee. You should be seeing verified schedules within a week.

Week 1

Setup

We map your payer mix, agree on the checklist for each service line, set up secure access, and sign the BAA. One kickoff call, usually under an hour.

Week 2

Parallel run

We verify alongside your current process and compare results daily. Discrepancies get discussed openly, whichever side got it wrong.

Weeks 3–4

Full volume

We take over the complete schedule. At day thirty you get the first accuracy report: what we checked, what we caught, and what it would have cost you.

Questions

Things practices usually ask us

How far ahead do you verify?
Two to three business days before the appointment for scheduled patients. Same-day add-ons go into a priority lane and are usually verified within a couple of hours during business hours.
Which practice management systems do you work in?
We work inside your system rather than asking you to adopt ours. Our team has worked in most of the common PM and EHR platforms, and for anything unfamiliar we learn your setup during the parallel run in week two.
Do you actually call payers, or only use portals?
Both. Portals and EDI transactions handle the routine volume. When a portal is stale, contradicts the card, or the plan has unusual rules, we call and get a reference number from a live representative. The phone call is often where the real answer lives.
How is your team trained on privacy?
Every team member completes HIPAA training before touching production data and re-certifies annually. Access is role-based, activity is logged, and we sign a Business Associate Agreement before any patient data moves.
How do you charge?
Per verification, with volume tiers, so the cost scales with your schedule instead of a flat retainer you may not use. Prior authorization work is priced separately since the effort varies. We quote after seeing your typical weekly volume.
Is there a minimum volume or a long contract?
No long lock-in. Engagements run month to month after the first thirty days. Small practices are welcome; the workflow is the same whether the schedule holds forty patients or four hundred.
What happens when a verification turns out wrong?
It comes back to us. Every eligibility-related denial is traced to its root cause: our error, a payer data problem, or a change after our check. You see that log, and our accuracy number is calculated from it, not from a marketing page.
Talk to us

See what your schedule looks like verified

Send us a week of appointments and we will run a sample verification batch, then walk you through what we found. No commitment attached to the sample.

Emailoffice@rcmmonks.com
Phone / WhatsApp+1 657-366-5157
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