Alaffia

Reduce sepsis DRG waste with AI your clinicians trust

With our sepsis DRG agent, health plans can identify unsupported sepsis codes, cut overpayments, and scale reviews — all without adding headcount.

Get a personalized sepsis DRG savings assessment tailored to your plan

HIPAA compliant • SOC-II Type II • HITRUST i1

The sepsis DRG crisis

The sharp rise in sepsis DRG coding and reimbursement has emerged as one of the most prevalent billing challenges facing health plans today.

Sepsis DRGs represent some of the highest-cost episodes in healthcare, with reimbursement rates that are often 2-3 times higher than standard infection codes. Between rampant overpayments and administrative burden, sepsis upcoding is costing payers billions of dollars annually.

40%
rise in Medicare patientshospitalized with sepsisfrom 2012-2018
$8.2B+
in Medicare spend onDRG 871 in 2023 alone
60-180
minutes of manual reviewper sepsis audit

Why traditional reviews aren't enough

Today's reality

Painstaking manual review of each sepsis chart

Insufficiently detailed clinical documentation of patients

Inconsistent application of sepsis criteria across reviewers

The consequences

Growing backlog of cases and costly delays

Persistent overpayments on unsupported sepsis codes

High risk of appeal and increased provider abrasion

You don't need more auditors.

You need to amplify the ones you already have.

Alaffia

Introducing Alaffia's sepsis DRG agent

Alaffia is a healthcare operations partner dedicated to transforming the claim review process for health plans.

Built on advanced machine learning, payer policy frameworks, and up-to-date, evidence-based clinical criteria that evolve with the latest definitions, our sepsis DRG agent standardizes sepsis detection and classification across every case, streamlining reviews and driving faster, smarter outcomes.

Configured to your plan's policies and workflows

Transparent clinical rationales for every recommendation

Built to work with your existing teams, not replace them

How it works

With our sepsis DRG agent, payers gain confidence in every decision.

Step 1:

Configuration

We configure our DRG agent to meet your clinical needs, with your plan's specific data, policies, and processes integrated into our AI platform to create bespoke workflows and outputs. This ensures that we adhere to your audit process requirements.

A paradigm shift for health plans

With Alaffia, you can transform sepsis DRG validation from a high-risk cost center into a predictable, scalable process with measurable ROI.

20x

Increase in throughput

70%

Of routine sepsis reviews are automated

30%

Reduction in improper sepsis payments

30 days

Time to go live and start seeing ROI

The Alaffia difference

At Alaffia, we're driving results that health plans can trust.

$100M+ in savings

We've saved our health plan partners $100 million in medical costs and counting, with 40% savings from existing processes.

Enterprise-grade security

We have SOC-II Type II and HITRUST i1 certifications, are HIPAA compliant, and establish and implement custom governance controls for each client.

Clinical expertise

Clinical expertise

Our clinicians are RNs, MDs, and/or CPCs with backgrounds in patient care: they understand how codes are generated and how hospital departments work.

Ready to understand your sepsis DRG exposure?

Get a detailed assessment of how much Alaffia's sepsis DRG agent could save you over your current workflow — with zero obligation.

What you'll get:

  • Analysis of your current sepsis review workflow
  • Estimated savings potential based on your plan size
  • Clear implementation timeline and approach
  • Honest assessment of whether this makes sense for you

Get a sepsis DRG savings assessment

No obligation. Just a focused conversation on whether this approach makes sense for your plan.