— Insurance Eligibility

Verify Coverage Before Every Visit

Horizon Revenue Group's insurance verification service confirms patient eligibility, benefits, deductibles, and co-pay obligations in real time — before the patient walks through your door, eliminating surprise denials and protecting your revenue.
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500+ Practices Served

— What Is Insurance Verification?

The First Line of Defense for Your Revenue Cycle

Insurance verification is the process of confirming a patient's active insurance coverage, benefits, deductibles, co-insurance, and authorization requirements before a scheduled appointment or procedure.

When verification is skipped or done manually, practices face costly claim denials, underpaid services, and frustrated patients who weren't informed of their financial responsibility. Horizon's dedicated verification team contacts payers directly and through electronic channels to collect the exact coverage data your billing team needs — before the encounter, every time.

● Real-time eligibility checks

● Benefits breakdown

● Prior auth flagging

● Patient responsibility

— The Problem

What Skipped Verification Is Costing Your Practice

Studies show that up to 75% of claim denials are caused by eligibility and registration errors — most of which are entirely preventable at the front end.

Eligibility-Related Claim Denials

Submitting claims without confirming active coverage is the leading cause of front-end denials, leading to costly rework cycles and delayed payments.

Patient Billing Disputes & Bad Debt

Patients who weren't informed of their financial responsibility before service are more likely to dispute balances, delay payment, or default entirely.

Coding Errors & Under-Billing

Procedures performed without required pre-authorization result in full claim rejections that are often not recoverable — lost revenue with no recourse.

Staff Overloaded with Manual Calls

Front desk staff spending hours each day on hold with payers is not scalable — it diverts resources from patient care and introduces manual verification errors.

— What's Included

Everything Your Practice Needs to Verify Right

A complete insurance verification suite — covering every payer, every plan, every patient, before every visit.

Real-Time Eligibility Verification

Automated, real-time eligibility checks against 900+ payers via EDI 270/271 transactions — confirming active coverage for every scheduled patient within hours of scheduling.

Benefits Detail Extraction

We retrieve the complete benefits picture: deductibles, co-pays, co-insurance percentages, out-of-pocket maximums, plan limitations, and specialty benefit tiers — formatted for your billing team.

Prior Authorization Management

We identify services requiring pre-authorization and initiate the auth request on your behalf — tracking status, managing peer-to-peer calls, and alerting your team before the procedure date.

Patient Responsibility Calculation

Accurate, upfront patient cost estimates based on verified benefits and procedure codes — enabling your front desk to collect the right co-pay at time of service, every time.

Secondary & Tertiary Coverage Check

We verify all active coverage layers — primary, secondary, and tertiary insurances — and confirm coordination of benefits (COB) rules to maximize total reimbursement on each claim.

EHR-Integrated Reporting

Verification results are pushed directly into your EHR or practice management system in structured formats — no manual data entry, no information gaps, no workflow disruption.

— Key Benefits

Why Verification-First Practices Collect More

Front-end accuracy is the highest-ROI investment in your revenue cycle. Practices that verify every patient before every visit consistently outperform those that don't — across every financial metric.

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Eliminate Eligibility-Based Denials

The single largest driver of claim denials — coverage gaps, terminated plans, and inactive member IDs — is completely eliminated when every patient is verified before the visit.

Improve Patient Financial Experience

When patients are informed of their exact co-pay and deductible obligation before their appointment, satisfaction improves, disputes decrease, and collections at time of service increase significantly.

Free Up Front-Desk Staff

Eliminate hours of manual verification calls. Our team handles every check so your staff can focus entirely on patient experience, scheduling, and clinical coordination.

Accelerate Clean Claim Submission

Verified eligibility data flows directly into the billing workflow, reducing errors at the coding and submission stage and supporting a 98%+ clean claim rate from day one.

Five Steps to Verified, Denial-Proof Encounters

Our structured insurance verification workflow is triggered at scheduling and completed before every encounter — with zero manual effort from your team.

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Appointment Trigger

When an appointment is scheduled, our system is automatically notified via EHR integration or daily schedule feed, initiating the verification queue.

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Coverage Lookup

Real-time EDI eligibility transactions and live payer portal checks confirm active membership, effective dates, and plan type across all 900+ supported payers.

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Benefits Extraction

Complete benefits detail is captured — deductible, co-pay, co-insurance, OOP max, visit limits, referral requirements, and specialty carve-outs — for every plan.

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Auth & Flag Review

Services requiring prior authorization are flagged and auth requests are initiated. Inactive, expired, or mismatched coverage is escalated for resolution before the visit.

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Results Delivered

Verified eligibility data is uploaded into your EHR and a clear patient responsibility summary is provided to your front desk — ready for point-of-service collection.

— Why Horizon

Built for Scale, Precision, and Practice Growth

Horizon's insurance verification service is not a bolt-on feature — it's a fully managed, dedicated function staffed.

900+ Payer Relationships

We maintain active relationships and EDI connections with virtually every commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, and managed care payer — no payer is too obscure.

Specialty-Trained Verification Staff

Our team is trained on specialty-specific benefit nuances, carve-out plan , and payer-specific pre-auth triggers.

Seamless EHR Integration

Seamless EHR Integration Verified data is delivered directly into your PM or EHR system — eliminating duplicate data entry and ensuring your billing team

Real-Time Escalation Protocol

When issues arise — inactive plans, missing auth, COB conflicts — our team escalates immediately with a resolution path, not just an alert, so your workflow never stalls.

What is insurance verification and why does every practice need it?
Insurance verification is the process of confirming a patient's active insurance coverage, benefits structure, co-pays, deductibles, and authorization requirements before a visit. Without it, practices routinely submit claims for inactive plans, services not covered, or encounters missing required prior authorizations — resulting in preventable denials that cost time and money to resolve, often unsuccessfully.
How quickly can you complete verification for a scheduled patient?
Our standard turnaround is under 4 hours for most payers via real-time EDI. For complex plans or government payers that require manual portal checks, we target same-day completion for appointments scheduled at least 24 hours out. Rush verification is available for same-day appointments at no additional cost.
 
Do you handle prior authorization as part of the service?

Yes. Our team identifies services that require prior authorization based on the patient's plan and the procedure being performed. We initiate the auth request, track its status, manage peer-to-peer reviews when needed, and notify your team of approval or denial with next steps — before the appointment date.

Which EHR and practice management systems do you integrate with?
We are EHR agnostic and work with all major platforms including Epic, Athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Kareo, DrChrono, Greenway, NextGen, Allscripts, and more. Verified eligibility data is pushed back into your system in structured format — no manual re-entry required by your staff.
 
What happens when a patient's coverage is inactive or has a problem?

Our team immediately escalates the issue with a clear action plan: we contact the patient with updated insurance information requests, notify your front desk with a coverage summary and recommended self-pay or alternative options, and document the finding so the billing team can adjust the encounter before claim submission — stopping denials before they happen.

— FAQs

Insurance Verification Questions, Answered

Clear, data-backed answers to the financial questions your CFO cares about most.

— Get Started Today

Stop Losing Revenue to Preventable Denials

Let Horizon verify every patient before every visit. Get a free eligibility audit and see exactly how much your practice could recover.