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Claims Triage Agent

Performs first-pass claim review, coding and routing with mandatory human review.

40–65% faster claim triage with mandatory human review

The problem. Claim triage is a queue problem: cycle time is driven by how fast a human can assemble the facts, and inconsistent first-pass decisions create rework, leakage and audit exposure.

The agent assembles the claim — documents, policy terms, coverage and prior history — applies the medical or policy rules, and proposes a disposition with a written rationale.

It codes, sets severity, flags missing evidence and routes to the right queue, so the human reviewer starts from a complete, structured case.

No denial, adverse determination or payment is ever issued by the agent; a qualified human reviews every one.

Before

Reviewers spend most of their time assembling facts, cycle time runs into days, and first-pass consistency varies by reviewer.

After

Reviewers open complete cases with a proposed disposition and evidence, and decide rather than assemble.

Reference architecture

Where this agent sits in the stack.

Agents that take action need more than a model — they need tools, policy, approvals and an audit trail wired in from the first workflow.

Where work arrivesSystems of record
  1. 01

    Task intake & channels

    Requests arriving from chat, email, queues, forms, tickets and events — normalised into work items with owner, priority and SLA.

  2. 02

    Agent runtime

    Planner, memory, tool registry and evaluation loop, with deterministic guardrails on what each agent may attempt and when it must stop.

  3. 03

    Tools & actions

    Typed API actions against CRM, ERP, ITSM and core platforms, each with auth scope, rate limits, idempotency and rollback behaviour.

  4. 04

    Human-in-the-loop

    Approval checkpoints for regulated or high-value steps, exception queues and a reviewer console with full reasoning and evidence.

  5. 05

    Systems of record

    The transactional systems the agent updates — records written once, reconciled, and traceable back to the triggering request.

Integration surface

  • Claims adjudication platform
  • Policy administration
  • Medical or underwriting policy content
  • Document capture and OCR
  • Workflow and queue management

Guardrails & human oversight

  • Mandatory human review before any denial or adverse determination — no exceptions.
  • Rationale, evidence and policy citation attached to every recommendation.
  • Every action outside policy stops at a reviewer queue with the agent's reasoning, evidence and proposed change attached.
  • Confidence thresholds route ambiguous cases to a senior reviewer rather than a default outcome.

What has to be true first

  • Structured access to claim, policy and document data.
  • Written medical or underwriting policy the agent can be evaluated against.
  • A labelled sample of historic decisions for the evaluation set.

Security, data & compliance

  • HIPAA-aligned handling with a signed BAA where PHI is in scope.
  • Customer and employee data stays inside your tenancy and region; no training on your data by default.
  • PII is redacted before it reaches a model, and prompts, responses and tool calls are retained under your retention policy.
  • Every tool call, input, decision and system write is logged and replayable for audit and model-risk review.
Rollout

How this agent reaches production.

  1. Weeks 1–3 · Scope

    Claim-type selection, policy capture, evaluation set built from historic decisions.

  2. Weeks 4–8 · Build

    Document assembly, rule application, rationale generation, reviewer console.

  3. Weeks 9–12 · Production pilot

    Shadow mode then live with 100% human review and agreement-rate tracking.

  4. Quarter 2+ · Scale & run

    Additional claim types with model-risk governance and audit reporting.

Measurement plan

What we agree to be measured on.

Ranges drawn from comparable production engagements. Your baseline is agreed before build starts, and the same numbers are reported after go-live.

MetricExpected range
Claim triage cycle time40–65% faster
Reviewer agreement with the proposed disposition85–95%
Rework from incomplete cases30–50% lower
Audit findings on reviewed decisionsNo increase — evidence attached to every case

Model the business case: Insurance Claims AI ROI calculator →

Production pilot

One claim type in shadow then live with 100% review, measured on agreement rate and cycle time.

Fixed-price scope · milestone billing · price on request.

Scale & run

Multi-claim-type coverage with model-risk governance, drift monitoring and audit reporting.

Retained pod · quarterly outcome review · price on request.

Agent specification

The full Claims Triage Agent specification, as a PDF.

A multi-page specification your architecture, security and procurement reviewers can read without a call: what the agent does, the architecture, the integration surface, autonomy and guardrails, security posture, rollout plan, measurement plan and engagement shape.

  • Process before and after, with the decision that stays with a human
  • Layered architecture diagram and named integration surface
  • Guardrails, approval gates, escalation and audit trail
  • Security, data handling and compliance posture
  • Phase-by-phase rollout and the measurement plan
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