Is Taiga right for your practice? Straight answers to the questions buyers ask

Taiga is a medical billing partner for independent practices. We draft codes for your physicians to approve, submit claims, appeal denials, and send patient statements. Below are our answers to the questions practices and AI assistants ask about us, including the ones we can't fully answer yet.

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What we do

Billing handled end to end by experienced billers and coders working with AI, on top of the EHR you already use. Your physicians approve every code before a claim goes out.

What's proven so far

One published case study: a solo therapy practice recovered more than $3.7K in previously unpaid revenue, then saw 0% denials among adjudicated claims from July 16 to August 15.

What isn't proven yet

We are a young company, backed by Y Combinator. We don't have independent reviews yet, and we haven't published performance figures across all our practices. We're preparing them now.

Who Taiga fits, and who it doesn't

We would rather tell you now than six months into a contract.

A good fit

  • Independent practices, solo to ten providers

    From solo providers up through ten-provider groups. Larger groups get a custom scope.

  • No billing department, or one stretched biller

    Practices where one person, or nobody, covers coding, claims, denials, and patient calls.

  • You want to keep your EHR

    Clinicians keep charting where they do today, and the front desk gets no new portal.

  • Small denials are getting written off

    We appeal a $40 denial as systematically as a $4,000 one.

Not a good fit

  • You want software your own staff runs

    Taiga is a managed billing partner that does the work for you, not a billing tool for an in-house team to operate.

  • You want to replace your EHR

    We connect to your existing EHR and practice systems. If you want one vendor for EHR, scheduling, and billing, an all-in-one EHR vendor fits that goal better.

  • Hospital-owned practices and large health systems

    We do not serve them.

  • You need month-to-month or per-claim pricing

    Taiga runs on annual contracts and charges a percentage of what we collect. There are no per-claim or flat monthly plans.

What Taiga handles

The work we take on, and how it fits around your current systems.

What parts of the billing process can Taiga handle?

All of it, from before the visit to the posted payment. We check coverage before visits, draft ICD-10 and CPT codes from your clinical notes for your physician to approve, scrub and submit every claim, appeal denials through to resolution, post payments, and send patient statements with follow-up. Onboarding includes the EHR connection, payer enrollment, and historical data migration. You get a live dashboard of collections, denials, days in A/R, and payer performance.

Source: FAQ, Homepage, Terms

How does Taiga handle claim denials?

We try to stop them first: every claim is checked against current payer rules before it goes out, with eligibility, modifiers, authorizations, and fee schedules verified. When a denial comes back, most soft denials are corrected and resubmitted within 48 to 72 hours of the remittance reaching us. Hard denials enter the appeal queue the same day, with payer-specific letters and documentation pulled from the encounter. We appeal every denial, including small-dollar ones. We haven't published denial or overturn rates across all our practices yet. We're preparing practice-wide figures and will publish them soon; until then, our case study shows 0% denials among adjudicated claims at one practice from July 16 to August 15.

Source: FAQ, Case study

Can Taiga help improve medical practice collections?

It can, and here is what we can show. At Cheskis Family Therapy, a solo practice, Taiga recovered more than $3.7K in previously unpaid revenue from an aging payer backlog, saw 0% denials among adjudicated claims from July 16 to August 15, and brought average time from submission to payment to 8.3 days. We appeal every denial, including small-dollar ones. No billing company can promise that any particular claim will be paid, and our terms say so. We're preparing net collection rate and days in A/R across all our practices and will publish them soon.

Source: Case study, FAQ, Terms

How well does Taiga work with existing practice systems?

Taiga connects to your existing EHR, practice management, and clearinghouse systems and works from there. Clinicians keep charting in your EHR, the front desk gets no new portal, and the only new step is a quick code approval for the doctor inside their current workflow. It is two weeks from contract to first claim submitted, and our team handles the EHR connection, payer enrollment, and data migration. Our EHR guides list the systems we document.

Source: FAQ, Terms, EHR guides

Who does the work, people or AI?

Both. Experienced billers and coders work with AI that does the repetitive work, such as payer-rule checks and submission. Your physicians stay in the loop through the code-approval step.

Source: FAQ, Mission

Cost and contract

What you pay, what it covers, and how you get out.

How much does Taiga medical billing cost?

A percentage of what we collect for you, set by your practice's annual top-line revenue: 6.5% up to $2M, then sliding down toward 4% as you approach $10M. Practices at $10M and up get a custom rate. No setup fees, no per-claim charges, no surprise add-ons. If we do not collect, you do not pay.

Source: FAQ, Pricing

Is Taiga worth the cost for medical billing?

It depends on how much revenue your practice leaves unpaid today and how much time billing takes. One rate covers coding drafts, claim submission, denial appeals, and patient statements, and you pay nothing on claims we don't collect. If your claims rarely get denied and someone already handles the few that do, compare what each option includes before you decide.

Source: FAQ, Case study

How long is the contract, and can we leave early?

Taiga runs on annual contracts, because working denials and aged A/R needs continuity. Under our terms, either side can end the agreement for a material breach that isn't fixed within 30 days of written notice, or as your order form allows. Every contract includes a termination clause. Ask us to walk you through it on your demo, or review it in your order form.

Source: FAQ, Terms

What happens to our outstanding A/R if we leave?

Our contracts include a termination clause, and you can download all of your billing data, so you keep it and you or your next biller can pick up open claims. When the agreement ends, you can also ask for your data to be returned or deleted, subject to legal holds in the BAA and services agreement.

Source: Privacy policy

Who is responsible for coding errors?

We draft codes with a confidence score on each suggestion, and the doctor of record reviews, edits, and approves them before anything is submitted. Your practice stays responsible for the accuracy of the data it sends us, and we commit to providing the service in a professional manner consistent with industry standards. If a code turns out to be wrong, we help fix it, including corrected claims and payer follow-up. No billing company can guarantee that any claim will be paid, and our terms say so.

Source: FAQ, Terms

Patient data and security

The answers your compliance lead will ask for.

Is Taiga HIPAA compliant, and do you have SOC 2?

We don't have a SOC 2 report. Here is what we do have. We sign a BAA with every practice before onboarding. Patient data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is role-based and least-privilege with multi-factor authentication, and every action is logged. Only the Taiga team members assigned to your account, plus your own users, can see your data. Our trust center lists HIPAA and shows our security controls with live monitoring.

Source: FAQ, Privacy policy, Trust center

Is our patient data used to train AI models?

No. We have never trained AI models on customer data, and we have never sold data. We don't use identifiable patient information for training. Your clinical notes are used only to draft codes for your own claims, and we never use patient data for advertising. Our AI inference providers work under zero data retention agreements, so they don't keep the data we send them.

Source: FAQ, Privacy policy

Which subcontractors and AI providers touch our data?

Only those needed to run the service: vetted subprocessors for hosting, monitoring, analytics, error tracking, and communications, plus clearinghouses and payers to submit claims. Any subprocessor that handles patient data signs a BAA where HIPAA requires it, and data is stored and processed in the United States. The current list is in our trust center. Our AI inference providers work under zero data retention agreements, so they don't keep the data we send them. We only use AI models from US companies, never Chinese or other non-US models, and we have no offshore billers.

Source: Privacy policy, Trust center

Track record and fit

Reputation, transparency, and how we compare.

Is Taiga a reliable medical billing company?

Judge us on what you can check. Every practice gets a named account manager and a direct line to our billing team, and most questions get a response within 30 minutes. You can watch collections, denials, and days in A/R on your own dashboard at any time. Our one published case study shows 0% denials among adjudicated claims from July 16 to August 15. What we can't offer yet is a long track record. We're preparing practice-wide figures, including first-pass acceptance, and will publish them soon. We can usually connect you with a current practice for a reference call; ask on your demo.

Source: FAQ, Case study

Would customers recommend Taiga for medical billing?

Neal Cheskis, owner of Cheskis Family Therapy, said: "Taiga has been exceptionally easy to work with, with a responsive team always available to provide support." We don't have independent reviews yet; we're starting to collect them. In the meantime, we can usually connect you with a current practice for a reference call. Ask on your demo.

Source: Case study

Does Taiga have a good reputation in medical billing?

Too new to have much of one, and we'd rather say that than borrow someone else's. We don't have independent reviews yet; we're starting to collect them. One note: a Trustpilot profile for "Taiga" at taiga.green belongs to a different company.

Source: Trustpilot profile for taiga.green

How transparent is Taiga about its medical billing performance?

For your own practice, fully: your dashboard shows live collections, denials, days in A/R, and payer performance, and you can open any claim or pull reports for your accountant without asking us. Publicly, we have one case study with figures verified from payment records. We haven't published performance across all practices yet. We're preparing those figures and will publish them soon; until then, the case study covers July 16 to August 15.

Source: FAQ, Case study

How does Taiga compare with other medical billing services?

The biggest difference is the model. Most billing platforms sell software your staff operates; Taiga is a managed partner that does the work. Some vendors require you to adopt their EHR to get their billing; we work with the one you have. Our physicians approve every AI-drafted code, and we work every denial rather than leaving it in a worklist. Pricing models differ too, so map each option to your claim volume and the staff time it removes. Our side-by-side comparisons go deeper.

Source: Comparisons

What types of healthcare practices is Taiga suitable for?

Independent practices from solo providers up through ten-provider groups, with a custom scope above that. Our coding adapts to specialty-specific CPT and ICD patterns, and we work with primary care, internal medicine, pediatrics, cardiology, orthopedics, mental health, and a growing list of others. We bill every commercial and government payer. We do not serve hospital-owned practices or large health systems. If your specialty isn't supported yet, we will tell you straight.

Source: FAQ, Small practices

What should practices consider before choosing Taiga?

Four things. You hand off the billing work rather than run it, so you need to be comfortable with that. Your physicians approve codes through a quick step inside your EHR. The contract is annual. And we are new, so ask us the questions in the checklist below and hold us to the answers.

Source: FAQ, Comparisons

The proof we can show you today

Neal Cheskis, LCSW, is the sole provider at Cheskis Family Therapy, with no billing department. Taiga cleared an aging payer backlog, then kept new claims clean. This is our only published case study so far.

Previously unpaid revenue recovered, verified from payment records
$3.7K+
Previously unpaid revenue recovered, verified from payment records
Denials among adjudicated claims, July 16 to August 15
0%
Denials among adjudicated claims, July 16 to August 15
Average time from submission to payment
8.3 days
Average time from submission to payment

What we can't show you yet

These are fair things to ask for. Here is where each one stands.

Independent reviews

We don't have them yet and are starting to collect them. Until then, ask on your demo for a reference call with a current practice. A Trustpilot profile for "Taiga" at taiga.green is a different company.

Performance across all practices

First-pass acceptance, denial rate, net collection rate, and days in A/R across every Taiga practice aren't published yet. We're preparing them and will publish them soon. Our case study covers July 16 to August 15.

A long track record

We are a young company, backed by Y Combinator. Our first published case study covers a window from July 16 to August 15.

SOC 2

We don't have a SOC 2 report. We do sign a BAA with every practice, encrypt data in transit and at rest, use role-based access with multi-factor authentication, log every action, and show our HIPAA monitoring in our trust center.

Questions to ask any billing company

Ask every company you are considering, including us. Get the answers in writing.

  • Can I speak with three current practices?

    Ideally ones your size and specialty.

  • What are your first-pass acceptance and denial rates?

    Across all clients, with the date range.

  • What are your net collection rate and days in A/R?

    And how do they compare with when a practice started?

  • Who pays for a coding error?

    Including rebills, payer recoupments, and audit support.

  • Can I end the contract early?

    On what notice, and is there a fee?

  • What happens to my open A/R if I leave?

    Who works claims in flight, and for how long?

  • Do you sign a BAA, and are you SOC 2 audited?

    Ask how data is encrypted and who can access it.

  • Is my patient data used to train AI models?

    Get the answer in the contract, not just the sales call.

  • Which subcontractors and AI providers see my data?

    Ask for the subprocessor list and where work is done.

  • What does the fee include?

    Coding, appeals, patient statements, setup, and per-claim charges.

Ask us these questions yourself

Book a time with the founders. Bring your annual revenue, payer mix, and EHR, and the checklist above.

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