Healthcare: Prior Authorization Packet Review with Claude Code: API Runtime Pattern
A production playbook for prior authorization packet review in healthcare operations using Claude Code: api runtime pattern, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Healthcare operations teams
The problem
Healthcare operations teams need prior authorization packet review to run repeatedly against clinical notes, payer rules, forms, lab results, and attachments. In healthcare operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.
Implementation path
Package the prior authorization packet review instructions as a skill, send clinical notes, payer rules, forms, lab results, and attachments as run-scoped inputs, execute with Claude Code, poll terminal status, and consume argo.result.v1 instead of parsing a transcript.
Tradeoffs and failure modes
The API boundary forces the workflow to define inputs, terminal states, and result shape before customers depend on it. For prior authorization packet review, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.
Run request
POST /api/skills/<skill_id>/run
provider=claude-code
workflow=healthcare-prior-auth
inputs[]=@./input-pack.zip
result_schema=argo.result.v1
Run this on Argo