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Operational and financial paperwork in healthcare organisations, automated with the controls those organisations require.
Where it gets stuck
The back office behind the wards
This page is about the paperwork a hospital or clinic chain runs to buy, pay and get paid. It does not cover clinical records or care, and PTAS AI does not work on either.
Supplier bills
Consumables invoices with batch-level lines
A hospital buys thousands of items from dozens of distributors. Every invoice line carries a batch, an expiry date and an MRP, and each has to agree with the PO and the rate contract before it is paid.
Purchasing
Purchase orders from every department
Pharmacy, central stores, biomedical engineering, housekeeping and the kitchen each raise their own POs. Finance sees them when the invoice arrives, and the approval trail is spread across email.
Receiving
Receipts in one system, payables in another
Goods are received into the pharmacy or inventory module of the hospital system. Invoices are paid from the ERP. Matching the two is manual, so short supplies and short-dated stock are found late.
Vendors
Onboarding with no single owner
Distributors, equipment suppliers and service contractors all need GSTIN, PAN, bank and licence details checked. The documents arrive by email and wait in a shared folder until someone needs to pay.
Claims paperwork
Insurance and TPA claim packs
Cashless and reimbursement claims go to insurers and TPAs as packs of bills, approvals and identity documents. The billing desk assembles them by hand, and one missing page sends the claim back.
Settlements
Settlements that do not match the bill
Settlement letters arrive weeks later, with deductions listed in the insurer's own terms. Reconciling billed, approved and paid amounts claim by claim is the slowest part of the receivables month.
Documents and data
What arrives, and what it has to agree with
Two kinds of paperwork, one on each side of the ledger. Supplier documents decide what you pay. Claim documents decide what you are paid.
A claim pack is a set of documents to read and route. The check is whether it is complete and whether the amounts agree, which is administrative work.
One claim pack, checked before it is sent. Illustrative example
The agent checks that the pages are there and reads the amounts. Decisions on the claim stay with your billing team, the insurer and the TPA.
Capabilities
What PTAS AI does with them
Every document is checked against a record that already exists before a person sees it. Identity fields are masked before anything leaves.
Read supplier bills to the batch
01Invoices from distributors and equipment suppliers read line by line, including batch, expiry and MRP, with a confidence score on every field.
Match across two systems
02Invoice lines matched to the PO in the ERP and the receipt in the pharmacy or inventory module, even when the two systems do not share data.
Check rates against the contract
03Unit rates compared to the rate contract or the last agreed price. A variance is sized and sent to purchase instead of being paid.
Onboard vendors on checked data
04GSTIN, PAN and bank details checked at source, licence numbers captured, and duplicates caught before a new vendor can be paid.
Check claim packs before they leave
05Claim documents sorted by type, checked against each insurer's checklist and sent back to the billing desk with the missing page named.
Mask identity fields on export
06Policy numbers, member IDs and identity document numbers masked per field and per destination, with the full record behind role-based access.
We would start with consumables invoices, because every line can be checked against a receipt and a rate contract you already hold.
One distributor invoice, four lines. Illustrative example
Batch and expiry are read from the invoice, so a short-dated delivery is questioned before it is paid for, not after the stock is issued.
Product
Which product carries it
DocPro reads the paperwork and marks what is sensitive. FinSuite runs the payables and vendor work that follow. Neither one touches clinical records.
Integrations and data handling
Systems that can be connected, and what crosses between them
Receipts live in the hospital system and the ledger in the ERP, while claim status sits on each insurer's portal. Each system receives only the fields it needs.
Hospital information system
Receipts and billing
Pharmacy or inventory module
Batches and stock
SAP
ERP
Oracle
ERP
Microsoft Dynamics
ERP
Tally
Ledger
Insurer and TPA portals
Claim status
Email and shared drives
Document intake
Bank statements
Settlement receipts
There are four integration methods: native where a system offers one, API, file or flat-file exchange, and custom work. SAP and Oracle connect by API or file, as their integration pages describe. Hospital information systems are often heavily configured, so for them, and for Microsoft Dynamics, Tally and insurer portals, the method is confirmed in discovery against the version you run. The names here are planning examples, not packaged connectors.
See all integrationsIdentity fields in claim and onboarding packs are held under role-based access and masked on the way out, set per field and per destination.
Held internally against exported · Illustrative example
Masking is set per field and per destination, so a KYC reviewer and a billing system receive different versions of the same record.
Outcomes
What you can measure, and how
We do not quote improvements before we have seen your documents. We agree the measures before the work starts, and these are the ones that move first in a hospital back office.
Rate variances caught before payment
- Today
- Rates are checked against the contract when someone remembers to, usually after payment.
- What changes
- Every line is compared to the rate contract, and each variance goes to purchase with the contract line.
- How it is measured
- Value of rate variances flagged each month, by distributor, and how much was credited back.
Short-dated deliveries
- Today
- Expiry is checked on the shelf, after the invoice has been paid.
- What changes
- Batch and expiry are read from the invoice and checked against your window before payment.
- How it is measured
- Lines flagged for short expiry each month, and the value returned or credited.
Claim packs sent back
- Today
- Packs leave with a page missing and return from the TPA weeks later.
- What changes
- Each pack is checked against the insurer's checklist before it is sent.
- How it is measured
- Claims returned for missing documents, counted by reason and by insurer, before and after.
Settlement differences explained
- Today
- Short settlements are written off in bulk because reconciling claim by claim takes too long.
- What changes
- Each settlement letter is read and reconciled to its bill and to the bank receipt.
- How it is measured
- Value of settlement differences with no recorded reason at month end, by insurer or TPA.
FAQ
Questions healthcare finance and administration teams ask
Does PTAS AI read clinical records or support clinical decisions?
No. The work is administrative and financial: supplier bills, purchase orders, vendor documents, claim paperwork and settlement letters. Where an insurer's checklist asks for a page, the agent checks that the page is in the pack. It does not interpret clinical content, and every decision on a claim stays with your billing team, the insurer and the TPA.
Which healthcare data regulations does PTAS AI comply with?
We do not make regulatory compliance claims on behalf of healthcare organisations. What we can show your compliance team is the controls: field-level redaction on export, role-based access, encryption, audit trails, retention set by your policy with deletion recorded, and cloud, private cloud or on-premise deployment where supported. Our security practices are ISO/IEC 27001-aligned, not certified. Whether that meets your obligations is your team's decision, and they should make it with the controls in front of them.
Our receipts are in the hospital system and our payables are in a separate ERP. Can they still be matched?
Yes, and that split is the usual case. The receipt is taken from the hospital or pharmacy system, by API or file export depending on what it offers, while the PO and the payment sit in the ERP. The match runs across both, and the result is written back to the ERP. Which method applies to your hospital system is confirmed in discovery, because those systems are often heavily configured.
Can the billing desk and finance see different versions of the same document?
Yes. Access is set by role, so the billing desk can open a claim pack in full while finance works with the amounts. Masking is set per field and per destination, which means the ERP and a reviewer receive different versions of the same record, and the policy and member numbers do not leave unmasked.
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Start with the consumables invoices
A month of distributor bills, with the POs and receipts behind them. That shows where rates, quantities and expiry dates disagree before anyone changes a process.