Attergo Knowledge Center

Practical guidance for healthcare operations.

Standards, workflows and definitions for pharmacy, billing, compliance and authorization teams, each one cited to its source.

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How to use this library

Learn a concept

Definitions, worked examples and cited standards for the topics that need a shared vocabulary.

Design a workflow

Decision models for turning an operational problem into work that somebody owns.

Evaluate an interface

Vendor-neutral context on systems, standards, integration limits and the evidence they require.

Permanent collections

How to

Step by step guides for the work people actually do in Attergo, written from journeys that were run rather than from what the screens appear to offer.

Getting startedDaily workStep by stepOperators

Revenue integrity

How to measure the gap between what a claim should have paid and what it did, explain the gap, and recover it.

Margin leakageUnderpaymentsReconciliationPayer contracts

Pharmacy economics

What a pharmacy pays for medication, what it collects for dispensing it, and how long the money sits in between.

Acquisition costWholesalersPSAOsInventory economics

Provider status & clinical services

Licences, enrollments, affiliations, and documentation, and how each one decides whether clinical work can be billed.

Provider statusCredentialingImmunizationsMTM

Managed care operations

Authorization turnaround, network oversight, claims operations, and delegation evidence for health plans and their delegates.

Authorization operationsNetwork oversightDelegationClaims operations

Medical billing

Clinical-service claims from encounter to payment: documentation, eligibility, submission, adjudication, and posting.

837P835EligibilityIncident-to billing

Prior authorization

Request intake, payer decisions, appeals, and the separate deadlines that govern each of them.

ePAAppealsDenialsWorkflow design

PBMs & reimbursement

The contract terms, pricing benchmarks, and post-adjudication adjustments that set what a pharmacy is actually paid.

GERBERAWPNADAC

DSCSA

Tracing obligations, EPCIS data exchange, verification, and what to do when a record arrives incomplete.

TracingEPCISVerificationExceptions

Compliance

Turning written policy into controls that produce evidence and get reviewed by someone accountable for the result.

HIPAADEAUSPRisk management

FHIR

Resources, REST conventions, implementation guides, and bulk data, and where each one fits an operational workflow.

ResourcesImplementation guidesRESTBulk data

Healthcare interoperability

HL7, NCPDP, and X12 in practice: what each standard carries and what it leaves to the implementer.

HL7NCPDPEDICanonical models

Pharmacy operations

Dispensing, purchasing, clinical services, and cash management run as one daily workflow.

WorkflowStaffingPurchasingCash flow

Audit readiness

How to answer a PBM, payer, regulatory, or internal audit with complete evidence and a defensible record of the response.

Evidence managementRecoupmentsResponse workflowsAudit packages

340B

Eligibility determination, inventory accumulation, diversion controls, and the records that support each decision.

EligibilityAccumulationsDiversionAudit support

Inventory

Item identity, demand, purchasing, expiry, and counting, for organizations holding medication stock.

TurnsShortagesAcquisition costExpiry

Where to start

Get the question right first.

What happened, what should have happened, what evidence would establish the difference, and who decides what happens next.

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