How a large single-specialty practice lowered costs and saved 125K hours of care team time annually with IKS Stacks

Client overview

A management services organization that supports a rapidly growing dermatology network of 100+ clinics and 300+ clinicians across multiple states. The group delivers comprehensive medical, surgical, and cosmetic dermatological care. To maintain high clinical standards during rapid expansion, it was critical to equip care teams with seamless, accurate administrative infrastructure to prevent administrative burnout.

Manual document workflows strained clinical capacity

As the client expanded their organization, clinical teams faced a growing administrative burden. Medical assistants were spending critical hours manually managing faxes and patient charts instead of assisting in care delivery. This led to:

AI-powered automation for incoming documents with IKS Stacks

The client partnered with IKS Health to deploy IKS Stacks, an AI-driven document management solution. Across 96 clinics and 291+ providers, IKS Stacks managed 100% of incoming document processing, transforming operations from manual work to near-real-time intelligent automation.
IKS Stacks capability AI-driven automation + HITL Solution
Standardized workflow for all sites and systems with intelligent routing and indexing Automatically classified, indexed, and linked incoming documents directly to correct EHR patient records without manual intervention
More complete and comprehensive patient records with clinical data abstraction Extracted discrete patient data into EHR systems with intelligent AI, replacing manual typo checks with automated exception routing
Unified cross-system task routing and care pool coordination Successfully bridged system limitations between NextGen and ModMed, routing tasks dynamically to targeted care pools

Proven outcomes

Using IKS Stacks eliminated administrative friction, delivered same-day document completion, and delivered massive cost efficiencies across the practice.

$2 million

annualized cost savings realized

60%

reduction in medical assistant document workload per clinician

125K+

yearly care team hours saved

3.64M+

document pages intelligently processed and indexed

99.87%

quality score maintained with 100% SLA adherence

IKS Health empowered care teams to focus on patient care

  • Rightsized staffing created more clinical capacity: Offloading document processing freed medical assistants’ administrative capacity, shifting staff focus back to direct patient support and mitigating burnout.
  • Unified cross-platform operations: Standardized document workflows across NextGen and ModMed environments, establishing operational consistency across all multi-state practices.
  • Near real-time chart availability: Intake delays were greatly reduced from 24 hours to a few hours, ensuring referrals and authorizations are ready for clinical review on arrival.
  • Closed-loop clinical precision: Cognitive AI abstraction delivered near-perfect accuracy, ensuring EHR chart updates were reliable and fully closed for clinical decision-making.

To learn more about IKS Stacks, contact us today at info@ikshealth.com.