How Light-it helps teams build on Stedi

Stedi provides fast, reliable infrastructure for healthcare billing. Anyone doing RCM work could benefit from running on it.

But not everyone should build on Stedi themselves.

Stedi is designed for teams with developers. Think software platforms, MSOs, DSOs, and health tech startups. These teams are often building custom RCM functionality and want full control over their RCM stack. If you have engineers, Stedi’s APIs give you everything you need to do that.

But many healthcare companies don't have developers. Even those with dev teams may not want to build everything from scratch. Some use solutions from our Platform Partners directory. Others need something more custom.

That's where firms like Light-it come in. Light-it is a software development firm that specializes in healthcare. They help teams build on Stedi without writing code. Light-it handles development and other implementation details for them.

Here's how one provider worked with Light-it to verify insurance coverage for nutrition therapy.

Verifying eligibility for nutrition therapy

The provider offers virtual-first medical nutrition therapy. They work with a nationwide network of registered dietitians. Most visits are fully covered by insurance – 95% of patients pay nothing out of pocket.

To deliver that kind of experience, the provider needs to verify coverage before a patient books. That’s harder than it sounds.

Most payers don’t clearly state whether nutrition therapy is covered in their eligibility responses. The X12 270/271 standard lacks a specific Service Type Code (STC) for medical nutrition therapy. This makes it hard to get consistent data across payers.

Most clearinghouses add more friction on top of this. You have to deal with unreliable connections, outdated – or poorly documented – APIs, and lossy responses where the clearinghouse drops data from the payer’s responses. When you do get an unclear response, it can take days to get help. Many teams end up just calling the payer themselves.

Instead of adding friction, Stedi makes the process easier. We offer easy integration, reliable payer connections, and lossless eligibility responses. And we provide real-time support. When you get a confusing eligibility response, we’ll help you interpret or debug it.

From proof of concept to production

Light-it and the provider started small. They ran a proof of concept with real patient data. They tested which payers returned usable coverage.

The results were clear. With Stedi, Light-it and the provider got clean, lossless eligibility responses. When they got errors, there were predictable failure modes. Light-it built reliable logic around those failures. When responses were unclear, they turned to Stedi for help in real time.

After validating the approach, Light-it built a simple frontend. Then they connected it to Stedi's Real-Time Eligibility Check API. It’s modern, JSON-based, and well-documented. Because of that, Light-it was able to move from proof of concept to production in weeks, not months.

The result

Today, the provider runs eligibility checks before every visit. Patients see coverage results immediately.

Stedi handles the transaction layer and APIs. Light-it handles the business logic and patient experience. They tailored the workflow to match how the provider operates. This includes fallback paths when data is unexpected or incomplete.

When to use an implementation partner

If you're evaluating Stedi and don’t have developers – or don’t want to build from scratch – partnering with a healthcare software development service like Light-it might be a good fit. They offer free consultation calls with no commitment.

You can start with a proof of concept to test your specific use case. Then work with the firm to build what's missing. Stedi's modern APIs and real-time support help implementation teams ship faster.