The low-cost, high touch way to scale your medical management programs

Lateral combines 20 years of healthcare expertise with frontier technology to provide low-cost medical management services

URAC ACCREDITED Utilization Management

Our Services

Our team has lived provider and payer operations for 20 years.

One team handles everything, so you can scale operations without adding overhead or juggling vendors.

Enabled by our technology partnership with Anterior, we deliver streamlined medical reviews at industry-leading rates.

We process volume surges, launch new programs, and adapt to your changing business needs—while keeping your costs predictable and competitive. You maintain control while we deliver high quality medical management programs that scale.

Utilization Management Services

Prior Authorization

Reviewing and approving requests for medical services, treatments, or medication before they are provided to ensure medical necessity and alignment with health plan policies.

Concurrent Review

Monitoring the care being delivered to a patient during an inpatient stay to ensure ongoing medical necessity and efficient use of resources.

Discharge Planning

Assisting patients in transitioning from inpatient care to home or another care setting by coordinating follow-up care, arranging necessary services, and preventing readmissions.

Retrospective Review

Evaluating the appropriateness and medical necessity of care after it has been delivered, often used for auditing or quality improvement.

Appeals Management

Handling member or provider appeals when prior authorization or claims are denied, ensuring adherence to policies and regulations.

Payment Integrity

Ensuring that claims are accurate, comply with contracts and policies, and are free from fraud, waste, and abuse through audits, overpayment recovery, and process improvements.

Case Management

Coordinating care for patients with complex medical needs to ensure they receive appropriate services and support, often including chronic disease management.

Disease Management

Providing structured care programs for patients with chronic conditions (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, COPD) to improve outcomes, reduce complications, and lower healthcare costs through education, self-management support, and regular monitoring.

Risk Management

Identifying members at higher risk for health issues to offer targeted interventions and preventive care.

Born in Colorado, but serving payers nationwide.

Our vision is to redefine utilization management by fostering innovation, collaboration, and trust among payers, providers, and patients through the use of state-of-the-art technology.

We are striving to remove the administrative burden and allow clinicians to focus on what is most important: the patient. If that resonates with you, we'd love to hear from you.

Open Positions

  • Clinical Quality RN

    Colorado

    Clinical Operations

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