Modern companies want to integrate using modern tools. Until now, there hasn’t been a modern, developer-friendly clearinghouse to serve the growing healthcare technology ecosystem. 

That’s why we built Stedi Healthcare – the only API-first clearinghouse that provides companies with the developer experience, security, and reliability they’ve come to expect.

Developer-friendly APIs

With Stedi Healthcare, developers can automate business flows like eligibility checks and claims processing using APIs that support thousands of payers. Here is a list of the APIs available today, with more in the works: 

• Professional claim submission

• Real-time claim status 

• Real-time eligibility checks

• Electronic remittance advice (ERAs)

These developer-friendly APIs enable growing health tech companies, digital healthcare providers, and mature, technology-forward enterprises to build critical services that enable providers to determine what services are covered, create cost estimates, and automate revenue cycle management. 

Under the hood, Stedi transforms JSON API requests into HIPAA-compliant X12 EDI and sends those transactions to payers. Stedi then automatically processes payer responses – benefits information, claim statuses, and electronic remittance advice transactions (ERAs) – and returns them in an approachable JSON format. 

Each API has built-in validation and repair – commonly referred to as “edits” – to help reduce payer rejections that can cause delays and hours of manual labor to fix. We continue to expand our capabilities to address common issues, including data validation, formatting, code usage, payer-specific requirements, and more. 

As an added bonus, we designed our APIs to be compatible with Change Healthcare (CHC) request and response payloads so existing CHC customers can switch to Stedi without code changes. 

Security-first, multi-region architecture with redundant connectivity

Security and reliability have always been job zero at Stedi.  

Our clearinghouse is built 100% on AWS infrastructure, with multi-region ‘active-active’ APIs and a growing set of payers covered by either redundant clearinghouse connectivity or direct-to-payer integrations. When possible, Stedi will dynamically route traffic to the most reliable connection, eliminating single points of failure. We continuously track payer uptime on our real-time Payer Status page.

Beyond maintaining SOC 2 Type II compliance and HIPAA eligibility, Stedi healthcare accounts are secured by mandatory multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and have role-based access control (RBAC) powered by Amazon Verified Permissions. 

You can learn more about our approach to security and compliance at trust.stedi.com.

Lightning-fast onboarding and support

“We submitted claims three days after signing, and the support is excellent in quality and timeliness of response. Stedi's team regularly resolves our engineers’ issues within minutes. This used to take months or just never happen at all with our previous vendor.” 

- Craig Micon, Head of Product at Pair Team

Our customer success engineers provide hands-on support to get you into production as quickly as possible. Within an hour of signing up, we provide you with a dedicated Slack channel, a Stedi account, and an API key so you can immediately start processing transactions. After you’re in production, we will keep the Slack channel open for communication between you and our support, engineering, and product teams.

We also prioritize comprehensive documentation, including step-by-step guides for claims and eligibility, reference implementations, and helpful API error messages. You can also download our public OpenAPI spec and access a user-friendly version of every X12 HIPAA transaction from our online reference site. 

Better UX 

The Stedi web application supports real-time manual eligibility checks that help developers test new payer integrations and help operations teams easily understand coverage for a specific member. You can search and filter responses for specific benefits (like copays and deductibles), coverage types (individual vs. family), coverage dates, and more.

Get started with Stedi

Stedi Healthcare makes healthcare transactions more secure, efficient, and reliable for developers across the health tech industry. Contact us to learn more and speak to the team.