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AI Diligence // Healthcare services
# The AI is in the chart. The risk is in the reimbursement.
Ambient scribes, coding automation, prior-auth bots, triage tools. In healthcare services the AI sits inside the revenue cycle and the clinical record — which means an AI finding is never just an IT finding. It's revenue integrity, regulatory tail, and PHI exposure.
 Book a scoping call → What typically breaks ↓
 The confirmatory assessment — the actual product, not a mockup.
 01 // The four surfaces
## Four surfaces, read for this sector.
The method doesn't change. What changes is where the risk concentrates — and in healthcare services, it concentrates hard.
 Operational — why it matters
Coding and prior-auth automation sits directly in the revenue cycle . A drifting model is a denial rate, not a bug report.
 Product — why it matters
Clinical-facing AI can be a regulated device . If it's making a claim about care, someone has to own that claim.
 Market — why it matters
As AI cuts cost-to-serve, payers reprice . The margin you're underwriting may be temporary by design.
 Financial — why it matters
In healthcare the tail is the deal: PHI in a training set is an indemnity , not a footnote.
 02 // The failure modes
## What typically breaks in healthcare services.
These are the findings we look for first — ranked by how often they turn up, and what they hit when they do.
 Frequency reflects what we look for and how often it surfaces in this sector — not a published benchmark. Sector baselines are built from completed engagements and released only when the sample supports them.
 03 // One finding, priced
## A finding is only real when it has a number.
 The finding Value at risk What it becomes
 Prior-auth automation trained on a payer ruleset that changed 14 months ago $4.8M Price reduction · escrow pending revalidation
 Why it matters Denial rate degradation not yet visible in the P&L
 Illustrative finding · representative of this sector, not a specific client engagement.
 04 // How you buy it
## Screen fast. Then go deep.
 Pre-LOI
### Flash Screen
A go/no-go read before the diligence budget commits.
 ≈ 10 SME hours included
- Composite score and red-flag triggers
- Sector failure modes checked first
- Screen memo: proceed, price, or pass
 Confirmatory
### Full Assessment
The IC-defensible read, sized to your window.
 ≈ 70 SME hours included
- All eight weighted domains, evidence-linked
- Management and technical interviews
- Findings → terms working session
- IC readout and 100-day plan input
 Sector Healthcare services → Sector Software / SaaS → Sector Insurance & financial services → Sector Industrials & distribution → Sector Business & professional services → Sector AI infrastructure & specialty industrials → Sector Payments & fintech →
## Don't sign for AI you haven't seen.
Bring us the target. We'll score the AI behind it — with the healthcare services failure modes checked first — and hand your deal team the price, the terms, or the walk.
 Book a scoping call →
