SparkChange

SparkChange builds automation for the authorization problem health systems actually have: services slipping through without a required auth. Its platform identifies auth requirements upstream, validates them pre-service, detects discrepancies after the visit, initiates retro-authorization before billing, and automatically assembles appeals for historical auth denials by attaching the authorization and queuing the appeal to the payer. Around that sit claims statusing automations, the Spark360 analytics suite, and revenue cycle services. The founders are former Cerner revenue cycle engineers and architects, and the product runs deepest in Oracle Health Millennium environments.

The Kansas City company, started by four co-founders without outside capital, publishes named health system results: Centra cut claim processing from 20 days to 5, an academic health system logged 638,000+ automated eligibility actions and 18,800 FTE hours saved, and University Health Kansas City and LMH Health provide public references. It competes with auth vendors like Valer and Rhyme but differentiates on the post-service side (retro-auth and denial repair) that most prior auth tools ignore.