Using AI Medical Record Audits to Reduce Claim Denials with Dmitry Karpov of Adentris

Insurers have thousands of engineers building systems to deny claims. Most healthcare providers have no one on the other side of the table.

In this entrepreneur interview, Dmitry Karpov — serial founder and CEO of Adentris — explains how AI can audit medical records in real time, why behavioral health documentation draws so much payer scrutiny, and what rural hospitals stand to lose as value-based care raises the stakes. 

Whether you run a clinic, work in revenue cycle management, or are building in health tech, this conversation shows where AI can close gaps human teams can't.

What you'll learn:
- Real-time AI audits of medical documentation
- Why behavioral health records face heavy payer scrutiny
- Auditing 100% of charts instead of sampling
- How AI could cut the cost of revenue cycle management

⏱️CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction 
0:38 What Adentris does 
|1:28 Why revenue cycle management is ripe for AI 
3:53 Building trust with small clinics 
5:34 Why EMR vendors guard billing data 
6:28 The documentation burden in behavioral health 
8:47 Using AI to audit treatment plans 
10:15 Why mental health demand is outpacing primary care 
12:13 Selling to staffing gaps, not cost cuts 
12:41 Auditing every chart instead of a sample 
14:30 Rural hospitals and the sepsis bundle 
17:40 Rural health transformation funding and RCM 
19:17 From passive audits to automated action 
21:05 Cutting denials from 17% to 12% 
24:07 Why Northwest Arkansas and how to connect

This episode is part of our Fuel Accelerator series

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About Dmitry Karpov: 
Dmitry Karpov is the CEO and founder of Adentris, which uses AI to catch medical documentation errors before they become patient safety or billing problems. Adentris was part of the Fuel Accelerator health tech cohort. 

Connect with Dmitry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitrykarpov/
Learn more: https://adentris.com/

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