72 sec
to fully read and check an 86-page faxed referral
Post-acute admissions
Every referral, decided the moment it arrives.
Basalt reads the referral packet the moment it lands, checks it against your facility's admission criteria, and surfaces every risk with its source.
73%
faster from referral received to admit decision
See how it works
Backed by evidence. Try it out.
Basalt reads the documentation that arrives at intake and checks it against your facility's admission criteria. Every finding is flagged red, yellow, or green and tied back to its source line.
Intake packetED referral · 1 of 24 pp.
RIVERSIDE GENERAL HOSPITAL · EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT REFERRAL
54-year-old male brought in with acute agitation and suicidal ideation; referred for inpatient behavioral-health admission. Placed on a 72-hour involuntary hold (physician emergency certificate) by the ED attending.
Substance use: reports daily heavy alcohol use, last drink roughly 8 hours before arrival; CIWA-Ar 18 on arrival; moderate-to-severe withdrawal risk.
Medical history: end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis three times weekly, hypertension. History of discontinuing psychiatric medications against medical advice.
Psychiatric history: multiple prior inpatient psychiatric admissions over the past two years.
Exam & status: vitals stable, afebrile; ambulatory, independent with activities of daily living; alert and oriented ×3; family present and engaged, agrees to outpatient follow-up.
Disposition: Inpatient behavioral-health admission pending criteria review and bed assignment.
What Basalt surfaces2 to resolve
✕
Risk
Active dialysis requirement
No on-site dialysis; needs a co-located unit
source ↗
?
Review
Involuntary 72-hour hold
Confirm continued hold vs. voluntary status
source ↗
✓
Likely
Medical stability
Vitals stable, afebrile
source ↗
✓
Likely
Functional independence
Ambulatory, independent with ADLs
source ↗Synthetic patient. Each item is checked against this facility's admission criteria and linked to its source line. Basalt surfaces the evidence; the clinician makes the call.
Why Basalt
How Basalt compares
The same referral, two very different intake processes. Basalt does in minutes what manual review takes hours to do, and does not miss.
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Manual intake
Reads the full faxed referral packet
Hours of nurse time
Checks every facility admission criterion
Inconsistent
Returns an admit decision in minutes
Days
Cites every finding to its source line
Rare
Flags acuity risks before bed assignment
Easy to miss
How it works
From fax to sign-off, in one pass.
Every referral moves through the same path. Basalt does the reading and the checking; your clinician makes the final call.
Step 1
Referral received
A faxed packet lands in the queue, often a hundred pages deep.
Step 2
Read and extracted
Basalt reads every page and pulls the clinical and payer signal in seconds.
Step 3
Checked and flagged
Each finding is matched to your admission criteria and surfaced red, yellow, or green with its source.
Step 4
Reviewed and signed off
Your clinician reviews the evidence and makes the admit decision.
Incoming
New referral received
Riverside General Hospital
ED referral packet86 pp.
Reading
Reading every page
Extracting the clinical and payer signal
DiagnosesMedicationsFunctional status
Checked and flagged
Matched to your criteria
Risks surfaced with citations
Active dialysis requirement Risk
Involuntary 72-hour hold Review
Medical stability Likely
Sign-off
Reviewed and signed off
A clinician makes the final call
ARDr. A. Reyes
Medical Director Approved
Medical Director Approved
Authorization
The evidence payers ask for, already assembled.
Getting paid hinges on documentation. Basalt pulls the clinical evidence straight from the chart to support every payer touchpoint, each fact tied back to its source.
Prior authorization
Assemble the medical-necessity evidence in minutes: diagnoses, functional status, and treatment plan pulled straight from the record and cited, ready to submit.
Concurrent reviews
Keep continued-stay reviews moving. Basalt surfaces the documentation that supports ongoing medical necessity, so days are not lost to back-and-forth.
Appeals
When a denial lands, Basalt pulls the chart facts that counter the payer's rationale, cited and organized into a ready-to-send appeal.
The bed is ready. So is the decision.
See how Basalt turns an inbox of referral packets into admit decisions in minutes, on a walk-through with your own intake workflow.