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Behavioral Health Practice · Behavioral Health

Behavioral Health Eligibility and Authorization Automation

Illustrative Revenue Cycle Automation Scenario. This scenario demonstrates how a healthcare organization could apply revenue-cycle automation. It is not presented as an actual customer result.

The Challenge

A behavioral health practice struggled with eligibility and authorization complexity. Session limits varied by payer and plan. Prior authorizations for therapy sessions required ongoing renewal. Parity compliance — ensuring mental health benefits were covered at the same level as medical benefits — added another layer of complexity. Denials for exhausted session limits and lapsed authorizations were common.

The Approach

Sarva automated eligibility verification at each session, checking active coverage and remaining session benefits.

Authorization renewal tracking was configured to alert staff before authorizations expired, triggering renewal submissions proactively.

Session count tracking was automated per payer and plan, with alerts when a patient approached their session limit.

Parity compliance monitoring was enabled to flag discrepancies between mental health and medical benefit coverage levels.

Illustrative Outcomes

Session-limit denials

Illustrative elimination of avoidable session-limit denials

Authorization lapse rate

Illustrative reduction to near zero with proactive renewal alerts

Staff time on eligibility/auth

Illustrative 80% reduction

Outcomes are illustrative and do not represent actual customer results.

Key Lessons

Session limit tracking must be automated per payer and plan — manual tracking is unreliable at scale.
Proactive authorization renewal prevents lapses that cause session denials.
Parity compliance monitoring protects against subtle coverage discrepancies that cause chronic denials.

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