The Pre-Bill Gap: Fix the Gap with an AI Pre-Bill CDI Solution

This is part 3 of a 3-part series on the pre-bill gap that causes revenue leakage. Part 1 covers how the pre-bill problem has become so prevalent, part 2 explains how pre-bill issues can be solved with AI, and this part provides a complete solution to prevent revenue leakage.

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Hospitals have invested heavily in clinical documentation integrity (CDI) programs, yet even the best programs leave millions in potential revenue unclaimed. The problem isn’t with the teams or their effort—it’s the structural gap that exists after discharge, when documentation updates, coding pressures, and timing constraints collide. That narrow window between discharge and billing is where revenue quietly slips away.

This is where IodinePreBill, the leading AI pre-bill CDI solution, makes all the difference.

IodinePreBill: The Leading AI Pre-Bill CDI Solution

What is IodinePreBill?

IodinePreBill is built to identify, prioritize, and close documentation and coding gaps before claims are finalized. It enables health systems to capture revenue that would otherwise slip through unnoticed. For many organizations, this isn’t a marginal improvement—it’s a financial transformation that recovers millions in previously lost revenue every year.

Health systems using IodinePreBill have recovered $3–4 million per month in previously missed revenue.

How does IodinePreBill work?

IodinePreBill reviews 100% of discharges in near real time, identifying documentation, coding, and quality issues that could impact reimbursement. Then, it prioritizes the most financially meaningful opportunities, ensuring staff attention goes exactly where it matters most. Each recommendation is backed by complete clinical context—labs, vitals, imaging, and notes—so reviewers can act quickly and confidently.

This streamlined process shortens review cycles and accelerates revenue capture:

• Review: AI scans every record to identify opportunities.
• Downscope: Cases without issues are automatically removed.
• Prioritize: The most valuable cases rise to the top of the worklist.
• Query: Reviewers and physicians collaborate on documentation updates.
• Capture Revenue: Claims go out complete, compliant, and correctly reimbursed.

IodinePreBill doesn’t replace your CDI team; it enhances their work by prioritizing cases with the largest financial impacts.

How does IodinePreBill fit into the existing CDI processes?

IodinePreBill doesn’t stand alone—it’s part of the Iodine Clinical Intelligence Suite, a fully integrated ecosystem that addresses revenue integrity from admission through post-bill. Together, these solutions create a closed-loop system that maximizes accuracy, efficiency, and financial performance.

• IodineCDI empowers documentation teams with real-time prioritization, reducing manual work and improving accuracy across concurrent reviews.
• IodineUM leverages machine learning and natural language processing to guide appropriate patient status decisions and reduce avoidable denials.
• IodinePreBill closes the final gap—catching missed revenue opportunities between discharge and billing.

All three are powered by IodineIQ, the company’s proprietary clinical intelligence engine trained on one of the largest inpatient data sets in the country—over 160 million patient encounters and 1.5 billion medical concepts. This foundation allows Iodine’s AI to think like a clinician, interpret documentation with nuance, and continuously learn from real-world data.

Iodine is the only vendor addressing leakage across the entire mid-revenue cycle.

IodinePreBill: The AI Pre-Bill CDI Solution to Uncover Previously Lost Revenue

Margins are tightening across healthcare, and traditional CDI programs can no longer keep up with rising complexity, staffing shortages, and payer scrutiny. The post-discharge, pre-bill window has become a significant source of preventable leakage in the revenue cycle.

IodinePreBill helps hospitals shift from reactive to proactive by catching issues before the claim leaves the door, not after the denial arrives. It ensures that every claim reflects the complete patient story, driving both financial and quality improvements in a single step. Ultimately, this doesn’t just drive better documentation, it pushes toward its stronger margins, fewer denials, and faster cash flow.

For executives under pressure to do more with less, IodinePreBill offers something rare in today’s healthcare landscape: measurable impact, immediate ROI, and no added risk.

Curious about how much revenue you could be missing?

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