I interview Punit Singh Soni, CEO of Suki and Niall O'Connor, CTO, Cohere Health to evaluate two areas where AI can have an outsize impact: clinical documentation and prior authorization.
In a recent interview, Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, the president-elect at the American Medical Association, outlined how the major pain point of physicians has gone from the EHR to prior authorizations requests. But none of the individual efforts that payers are making is enough.
Employee assistance programs have become essential tools for organizations aiming to address mental health challenges, reduce burnout and foster healthier workplaces.
Emblem Health’ s chief financial officer knows that prior authorization — where patients have to get advance clearance for a procedure from their insurance companies through their providers — can be frustrating. But in an interview at the Total Health conference organized by Reuters Events in Chicago on Thursday, she rejected the notion that the […]
The Act, along with mandating the adoption of electronic prior authorization, requires greater levels of transparency, approval rates, and rationale for denied requests.
It's time to embrace electronic prior authorization that, according to a 2021 AHIP study, has been found to reduce the mean time from PA request to decision by 69%. In addition, 71% of providers using ePA reported “faster time to patient care.”