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Case Study | Insurance

Smart Health Dental Cuts Insurance Verification Time and Support Waits with AI Voice Agents

24/7 inbound/outbound AI agents integrated with TLD CRM and Admin123 to verify benefits, route calls, and schedule follow-ups.

The Challenge

Smart Health Dental's member services team handled high call volumes for eligibility and benefits verification. Agents waited on hold with carriers, re-asked members for known details, and re-entered data in multiple systems. Average handle time was inconsistent, queues spiked mid-day, and abandonment led to repeat calls and dissatisfied members.

Processes were manual and fragmented across the phone system, carrier IVRs, and internal tools. Scripting varied by agent, audit trails were incomplete, and supervisors lacked a reliable way to track verification outcomes end-to-end. The team needed an always-on solution that could verify benefits, document outcomes in the CRM, and escalate exceptions to humans.

Our Approach

We deployed production AI voice agents to handle insurance verifications and frontline support. The agents capture intent, authenticate callers, collect required policy details, traverse carrier IVRs, log outcomes, and hand off complex cases to live staff - while keeping a full audit trail and HIPAA-aligned controls.

Implementation Phases

1
Discovery & Mapping3 weeks

Current call flows, carrier IVRs, verification fields, consent language, QA definitions, security review

2
Architecture & Design2 weeks

Twilio SIP + Retell AI voice agent design, n8n orchestration, TLD CRM and Admin123 API integration, fallback/handoff logic

3
Development & Testing8 weeks

Voice prompts + barge-in, dynamic slot filling, verification scripts, CRM writes, exception queues, red-team and UAT with call recordings

4
Deployment & Handoff2 weeks

Go-live, team training, dashboards, alerting, and documentation with ongoing tuning playbook

System Architecture

Input
Inbound member calls & web call-backs
Outbound verification calls
Carrier IVRs/portals
CRM events & webhooks
Processing
Caller authentication & consent logging
Dynamic verification workflows
Carrier IVR navigation & data capture
Rules-based escalation & warm transfer
Full transcription & audit trail
Output
Verified eligibility/benefits written to TLD CRM & Admin123
Tickets/tasks & next-action scheduling
Automatic CRM updates + appointment callbacks
Smart call transfers to the right queue
Supervisor dashboards & QA analytics

All PHI protected in transit and at rest with explicit consent capture, searchable transcripts, and end-to-end auditability.

Results & Impact

Faster verifications
Reduced average handle time
Consistent performance across carriers
Higher self-service
More calls completed by the voice agent
Fewer handoffs to humans
Capacity unlocked
Agent hours reallocated monthly
Focus shifted to complex cases & escalations