Cellarian & Validity: Integrating Documentation and Detection
In an increasingly regulated healthcare environment, providers are under pressure to not only deliver high-quality care but also to prove the necessity and appropriateness of every clinical decision. Nowhere is this more evident than in toxicology testing—a field that plays a critical role in behavioral health, pain management, and substance use treatment.
Recognizing this need, Cellarian, a leader in medical necessity documentation solutions, has partnered with Validity Diagnostics, an innovative laboratory reagent and solutions provider known for its subversion detection capabilities. Together, they’re helping healthcare providers ensure that every toxicology test is clinically justified, legally defensible, and medically actionable.
"Medicare has increased toxicology claims audits by 300%. Companies that don't have proper controls, documentation, and actionable data put their labs at risk," - Michael Sprintz, DO, DFASAM , CEO of Cellarian, on the mission of improving clinical defensibility and documentation integrity in toxicology.
Why This Partnership Matters
Toxicology testing is one of the most scrutinized areas in healthcare billing, and providers often find themselves at risk for audits, recoupments, and denials if proper documentation is missing or inconsistent. At every step of the process, there are people actively trying to subvert the system.
This is where Cellarian’s medical necessity documentation delivers immense value—by embedding real-time, automated documentation solutions directly into provider workflows. Our platform doesn’t “hallucinate” like AI or insert false patient information to make the documentation more “realistic,” which is a real legal nightmare for your lab. Cellarian isn’t AI. It’s an exceptionally intelligent software platform built by experts in medicine, lab operations, and revenue cycle management, and battle-tested with thousands of real lab claims—both successful and denied— to deliver your lab the most compliant, reliable, and trusted revenue-producing and audit-protecting medical necessity documentation on the market.
At the same time, Validity Diagnostics addresses another major vulnerability in the toxicology space: sample integrity. With increasing instances of synthetic urine, sample tampering, and substitution, traditional labs can miss critical red flags. Validity’s proprietary subversion detection reagents & products, provider education, and detailed validity reports allow clinicians to confidently interpret results and intervene when needed.
"People will always try to cheat the system. If your tox lab can't validate positives from positives and negatives from negatives, then there's no 'true standard' in what you are testing for." - Kevin Spruill, Director of Sales & Strategic Partnerships, Validity Diagnostics
Driving Outcomes and Reducing Risk
Together, our two companies offer a closed-loop compliance ecosystem where every test is backed by transparent documentation and every result is verified for integrity. This synergy helps providers:
Improve patient outcomes through early detection of drug misuse, tampering, or relapse.
Increase clinical quality by integrating lab data with personalized clinical documentation.
Mitigate legal and financial risk through defensible audit trails, compliant documentation, and real-time payer-aligned guidance.
"I've been a nationally ranked as a laboratory manager in the hospital and reference laboratory space. For laboratories that support pain management, addiction centers, and behavioral health, it is more important than ever to reduce your risk exposure and properly identify diversion." - Michael Lu, MBA, ALM, FACHE
A Smarter Future for Toxicology
The Cellarian + Validity Diagnostics alliance is more than just a partnership—it’s a strategic model for the future of compliant, quality-driven care. By aligning intelligent documentation with precise lab diagnostics, healthcare organizations can finally close the gap between clinical intent and operational execution.
