Rheumatology patients manage complex, chronic conditions that require precise medication timing, regular lab monitoring, and rapid response to flares. Ring AI schedules biologic infusions, coordinates pre-treatment labs, tracks prior authorizations, triages disease flares, and ensures your patients never miss a treatment dose.
"My RA is flaring badly — I can barely open my hands this morning"
Evaluates joint count, pain severity, systemic symptoms — schedules urgent visit
Urgent visit booked, labs ordered, current medication list pulled for rheumatologist review
Remicade every 8 weeks, Orencia every 4 weeks, Rituxan every 6 months — the AI manages each patient's infusion timeline precisely. It schedules pre-infusion labs, verifies prior authorization is current, coordinates chair availability, and sends patients arrival instructions with estimated infusion duration.
When patients call with worsening joint pain, new swelling, or systemic symptoms, the AI assesses flare severity and urgency. It determines whether the patient needs a same-day visit, an urgent appointment within 48 hours, or can wait for their next scheduled follow-up — based on your clinical protocols.
Biologic medications require ongoing prior authorization that expires and must be renewed. The AI tracks every patient's authorization timeline, alerts your team 30 days before expiration, collects updated insurance information, and ensures no patient misses a treatment dose due to an expired authorization.
We map your biologic infusion protocols, lab monitoring schedules, flare triage algorithms, prior authorization tracking rules, new patient referral intake, and provider scheduling preferences for your rheumatology practice.
Infusion scheduling, lab coordination, prior authorization tracking, flare calls, medication refills, and new referral intake — the AI handles the administrative complexity. Your clinical team focuses on treatment decisions, not phone logistics.
No missed infusions. No expired authorizations. Flares caught early. Labs always drawn before visits. Your patients achieve better disease control while your staff operates more efficiently. Track everything in a real-time dashboard.
"Managing biologic authorizations for 300 patients was a full-time job for my staff. Ring AI tracks every authorization, alerts us before they expire, and ensures no patient has a treatment gap. We haven't had a single authorization-related infusion delay since implementing the system."
Yes. The AI manages infusion schedules for all common biologics — Remicade (every 4-8 weeks), Orencia (every 4 weeks), Rituxan (every 6 months), Actemra, Simponi Aria, and others. It coordinates pre-infusion labs (CBC, CMP, hepatitis screening), verifies prior authorization currency, schedules infusion chairs, and sends arrival instructions with estimated duration.
Absolutely. The AI assesses flare severity by asking about involved joints, pain level, functional limitation, duration, and systemic symptoms (fever, rash, fatigue). It follows your protocols — scheduling same-day visits for severe flares with systemic features, 24-48 hour urgent appointments for moderate flares, and incorporating mild flares into the next scheduled visit with appropriate documentation.
The AI tracks every patient's biologic authorization — expiration dates, renewal requirements, step therapy documentation, and appeal status. It alerts your team 30 days before an authorization expires, collects updated insurance information, and ensures your staff has everything needed to submit renewals on time. No patient misses treatment due to an administrative gap.
Rheumatology wait times are notoriously long. The AI processes every referral immediately — collecting diagnosis, symptom history, referring provider information, and insurance details. It books the earliest available appointment, places patients on cancellation lists for earlier openings, and sends pre-visit questionnaires to ensure a productive first consultation.
Rheumatology is facing a workforce crisis — there are approximately 5,500 practicing rheumatologists serving 50+ million Americans with autoimmune and musculoskeletal conditions. Wait times for new patients routinely exceed 3-4 months. Every missed referral call means a patient waiting even longer for diagnosis and treatment, potentially suffering irreversible joint damage.
The administrative burden of rheumatology is disproportionately heavy. Biologic medications require prior authorization, step therapy documentation, periodic renewals, and insurance appeals. A single rheumatology practice managing 300 patients on biologics may process 1,000+ prior authorization interactions per year. Ring AI tracks every authorization timeline, preventing the treatment gaps that lead to disease flares and joint damage.
Lab monitoring for rheumatology medications is complex and ongoing — DMARDs like methotrexate require regular CBC and liver function tests. Biologics require periodic screening for infections. The AI coordinates these lab draws at the correct intervals before office visits, ensuring results are available when the patient arrives and reducing the waste of visits without current lab data.
Flare management is clinically time-sensitive. Early intervention during a flare — with steroids, dose adjustment, or joint injection — can prevent weeks of disability. When patients can't reach their rheumatologist during a flare, they end up in the ER (which often can't provide appropriate rheumatologic management) or suffer through it until their next appointment. The AI ensures flares get triaged to the right care level immediately.
For practices with infusion suites, chair utilization directly impacts revenue. The AI optimizes infusion scheduling, fills cancellation slots from the waitlist, and ensures pre-infusion requirements are met — maximizing the number of patients treated per day while maintaining quality and safety standards.
Join rheumatology practices using Ring AI to eliminate authorization gaps and improve patient access.
Starter: $499 setup + $99/month
Growth: $1,499 setup + $299/month (includes EHR integration)
Enterprise: $3,500+ (custom multi-location solutions)