The Problem is Massive
Medical billing in the United States is broken. Bills are complex, opaque, and riddled with errors. Patients are charged thousands of dollars they don't owe — and most never realize it because the system is designed to be confusing.
It gets worse. Hospitals are now using AI themselves — not to help patients, but to upcode bills and maximize revenue. Major insurers and federal investigators have repeatedly identified upcoding patterns costing patients and payers billions of dollars annually. AI is being used against patients. We believe it should be used to protect them.
1 Estimate widely cited by Medical Billing Advocates of America and consumer-finance reporting; methodology varies. 2 Industry estimates from billing-advocate organizations; actual overcharges vary widely by case. 3 Kaiser Family Foundation / KFF Health News analysis (2022). 4 Including federal False Claims Act settlements and major insurer audits; figures vary by year and study.
The Solution: AI That Fights Back
Bill Bodyguard puts the power of AI in patients' hands. We scan your hospital bill, flag every potential overcharge, and give you the tools to dispute unfair charges.
Upload Your Bill
Take a photo or upload a PDF. No account needed. Takes 30 seconds.
AI Scans for Free
Our AI checks for upcoding, unbundling, facility fees, supply markups, and duplicates.
Get Your Dispute Pack
For just $9, get customized dispute letters and a plain-language report of findings.
Meet the Founder
Prasanthi Ballada
Founder & CEO, Bill BodyguardPrasanthi is a tech founder and executive based in Austin, TX. She built Bill Bodyguard because she believes healthcare billing shouldn't require an expert to navigate. The system is stacked against patients — and technology should serve people, not exploit them.
With deep experience in product development and engineering leadership, Prasanthi designed and shipped Bill Bodyguard from concept to live product using her own product development methodology — the PDES Framework — and Claude by Anthropic as the core AI engine.
Built with Claude × PDES
Bill Bodyguard is powered by Claude, Anthropic's frontier AI model. When you upload your hospital bill, Claude's advanced vision capabilities read every line item, cross-reference charges against CMS guidelines and NCCI bundling rules, and flag the exact billing patterns that cost patients billions every year — making the kind of detailed bill audit that was once reserved for paid advocates available to anyone in about 60 seconds.
Bill Bodyguard was designed and built using the PDES Framework — Prasanthi's proprietary methodology for creating products that feel like they belong to a company 100x our size. PDES combines four principles:
The result: a product that combines the design polish of a premium health-tech company, the intelligence of Anthropic's most advanced AI, and the speed of a team that believes patients shouldn't wait a single day longer than necessary to get the tools they need.
Our Values
Transparency
We tell you exactly what we check, how our AI works, and what our limitations are. No black boxes.
Accessibility
The bill scan is free. Dispute Packs are $9. No subscription. No hidden fees. No account required.
Patient-First
Every decision we make starts with one question: does this help the patient? If the answer is no, we don't do it.
No Hidden Fees
We'll never surprise you with charges. Free means free. $9 means $9. That's it.
The Future We're Building
Bill Bodyguard is just getting started. Our vision is to make medical billing fair for everyone — and that means going beyond bill scanning.
Insurance EOB Comparison: Upload your bill and your Explanation of Benefits side by side. We'll flag discrepancies between what your insurer approved and what you were charged.
Hospital Pricing Database: A searchable, transparent database of hospital prices — built on data hospitals must publish under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule (in effect since 2021, expanded in 2024) — so you can compare charges before and after care.
Fair Billing for Everyone: Our long-term goal is to make medical billing abuse financially unviable. When every patient can instantly check their bill with AI, hospitals will have to bill fairly.
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