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Cohere Health vs Infinx: Medical Necessity Appeals

Quick answer:

Cohere Health is best for health plans and risk-bearing providers that review prior authorization and medical necessity on their own policies. Infinx is best for provider groups that want prior authorization and denial follow-up in software, with specialists when a payer will not take an electronic request.

Inclusion criteria:

Honest limitations: Substrate does not replace a clearinghouse, EHR, or full-cycle BPO. It automates post-submission AR (status, appeals, posting, eligibility) and still routes clinical edge cases to staff. Coding, CDI, and patient-facing billing are out of scope.

Cohere Health is best for health plans and risk-bearing providers that review prior authorization and medical necessity on their own policies. Infinx is best for provider groups that want prior authorization and denial follow-up in software, with specialists when a payer will not take an electronic request. See Appeals.

At a glance

Cohere Health
Infinx
Primary role
Health-plan utilization management
Provider prior auth and denial operations
Best buyer
Health plans and risk-bearing providers
Provider groups and health systems
Medical necessity
Reviews requests against the plan's guidelines
Auth follow-up and denial work, including specialist handoff
Work product
Reviewer guidance and determination letters
Portal tracking, document collection, and specialist support
System fit
Health-plan UM systems
Provider revenue cycle, with EMR status updates

Where Cohere Health wins

  • Health plans review the request against their own guidelines
  • Review Assist supports nurses inside the existing UM workflow
  • A fit for plans and risk-bearing providers, not a provider billing queue

Where Infinx wins

  • The provider side of the auth: submit, follow up, and record the result
  • Denied auths and claims move into document collection and portal tracking
  • Specialists cover payers that require a person

Also consider Substrate

Substrate ARC is an agentic denial and reconciliation platform for provider groups, hospitals, and health systems. Substrate combines all your systems and data sources across clearinghouses, payer portals, EMRs, lockboxes and more, to comprehensively support your billing team and enable you to work every single denial. Consider Substrate if:

  • You need end-to-end denial management, from triage through remediation, and appeal filing, not just phone dispositions
  • Your payer mix is portal-heavy (Medicare, Medicaid MCOs, specialty commercial)
  • You want structured PM writeback and audit trails across status, appeals, and posting
  • You prefer agentic automation over manual execution or offshoring and outsourcing (Substrate is listed in the Anthropic Connector Directory and publishes a public claim-status MCP.)
  • You want to keep billing in house but make it fast and cost effective

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Frequently asked questions

Is Cohere Health the same kind of product as Infinx?

No. Cohere Health decides medical necessity for the plan. Infinx helps the provider obtain the auth and work the denial.

Who should choose Cohere Health or Infinx?

Pick Cohere Health to run plan review. Pick Infinx to run provider auth and denial operations.

Where does Substrate fit?

Substrate ARC works the provider denial after the plan's decision, including portal filing and PM writeback. It does not replace plan UM software or a prior-auth services bench.

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