Your denial queue is worth more than you think.

We prepare, submit, and follow up on appeals for independent LA medical practices. You pay 25% of what we recover, or nothing otherwise. We turn appeals around in 5 business days from receipt.

• See what's recoverable

Who we are

Ricardo Lamour, founder of Healthlife Data, spent 15 years building healthcare IT and security infrastructure at City of Hope, NYU Langone, the VA, and Change Healthcare. That work gave him direct insight into how denials are generated and processed inside payer and provider systems — the foundation of our appeals methodology today. As we grow, we are building a team of credentialed coding specialists and clinical reviewers.

What we do

Only pay when we collect.
25% of recovered revenue, zero otherwise. No retainer, no minimum, no annual contract. If a claim is unrecoverable, we'll tell you — and you owe us nothing for finding out.

Your team stays on current claims.
Send us the denial report your system already generates. We handle the appeal letters, payer phone calls, medical-necessity arguments, and follow-up through final determination. Your physician signs off; everything else is us.

Built for LA specialty practices.
Imaging, GI, ortho, pain, rheumatology, oncology and infusion, sleep, ASCs, derm, DME. 1 to 20 providers. Any EHR, any payer mix. We know the LA payer landscape — Anthem, Blue Shield of CA, Health Net, SCAN, Alignment, LA Care, the IPAs — because that's all we work with.

Denial categories we specialize in.
Medical necessity (CO-50), prior authorization (CO-197), timely filing (CO-29), and coordination of benefits (CO-22).

How it works

1. Send us your denial report. Export from your PM system or EHR — whatever format, we'll take it. No integration, no software to install.
2. We work the appeals. Letters drafted, medical necessity argued, deadlines tracked, payers chased. Your physician reviews and signs; we do everything else.
3. You get paid when we win. Recovered funds go directly to your practice through normal payer channels. We invoice 25% after the money lands. If nothing's recovered, you owe nothing.
Lastly, we work denials by deadline first — claims at risk of timely filing forfeiture get prioritized, not stacked under newer ones.
HIPAA-compliant. We sign a Business Associate Agreement before any PHI is exchanged, and all denial data is transmitted via encrypted upload — never unencrypted email.

Why we exist

Roughly 80% of denied Medicare Advantage claims get overturned on appeal. Only one in five practices ever files one. Source: KFF analysis of CMS data, 2022.
The gap isn't strategy — it's hours. Appeal letters take time billing staff don't have, deadlines slip, and aging denials get written off as bad debt that was actually recoverable revenue.
Healthlife Data is the outside team that does that work. We're based in Los Angeles, we focus on independent specialty practices in LA County, and we only get paid when you do.

Let's see what's recoverable

See what's recoverable in your backlog.
Send us a denial report — any format, any date range. We'll review it and come back within three business days with an estimate of recoverable revenue and which claims we'd pursue first. No commitment, no obligation to engage us afterward.