Every engine runs simultaneously across your entire patient panel. Each one identifies a different category of missed revenue, guides you through the compliance requirements, verifies billing accuracy, and tracks realized revenue. Built for the hardest-working physicians in America.
These are not generic billing tools. Every engine is built around the specific CMS rules, timing windows, and documentation requirements that govern independent primary care billing.
The Annual Wellness Visit is the highest-volume Medicare revenue opportunity in primary care — and the most consistently missed. Most practices capture less than 40% of their eligible panel. Alema identifies every Medicare patient overdue for their AWV and automates the entire outreach and scheduling process.
Transitional Care Management is the most time-sensitive revenue opportunity in primary care. When a patient is discharged from a hospital or skilled nursing facility, CMS requires contact within 2 business days and a follow-up visit within 7 or 14 days to bill TCM. Miss the window — miss the revenue. Alema monitors the athenahealth ADT feed in real time and fires alerts the moment a discharge is detected.
Chronic Care Management allows practices to bill monthly for non-face-to-face care coordination for patients with two or more chronic conditions. It is one of the highest-ROI recurring revenue streams in primary care — and one of the most underutilized. Alema identifies every eligible patient, sends consent via SMS, and manages monthly check-ins automatically.
Advanced Primary Care Management is CMS's newest care management program — introduced in 2024 — and it pays significantly more than CCM for complex patients. APCM stratifies patients into three tiers based on complexity and pays $100, $110, or $195 per patient per month. Crucially, APCM does not require a separate qualifying visit — established patients seen within 3 years with 2+ conditions can enroll immediately.
Hierarchical Condition Categories are the CMS risk adjustment model that determines how much Medicare Advantage pays for each patient. Every documented HCC diagnosis increases your patients' RAF score — and higher RAF scores mean higher capitation payments from MA plans. Alema maps your panel against CMS-HCC V28, surfaces every undocumented diagnosis code, and generates provider-ready documentation prompts.
Value-based care contracts pay bonuses when practices hit quality measure thresholds — but navigating payer contracts, tracking HEDIS measures, and knowing which patients to prioritize is nearly impossible without the right tools. Alema's VBC Command Center is the first tool built specifically for independent practices to manage payer bonus contracts at the patient level.
Most primary care physicians undercode their E&M visits — billing 99213 for encounters that clearly support 99214 or 99215. The reasons are well-documented: fear of audits, uncertainty about documentation requirements, and time pressure. Alema analyzes your E&M coding distribution against national benchmarks and surfaces every encounter where the documented complexity supports a higher level of service than was billed.
Every denied claim costs your practice $25 to rework — and most practices have denial rates exceeding 10%. Alema catches problems before they become denials: missing modifiers, code pair conflicts, timely filing deadlines approaching, and payer-specific rules that vary by carrier.
If you run an independent primary care practice, we will show you exactly what Alema finds in your patient panel before you commit to anything.