Physician-led AI: Unlocking Clinical Productivity In Prior Authorization
By keeping our AI and ML grounded in real-world medicine, we can shape a future where prior authorization works smarter, faster, and better for everyone involved.
Ochsner Health Scales AI Tool After Its Cuts Prior Authorization Time to Just 4-5 Minutes
Ochsner Health is expanding its use of Latent Health’s AI platform after its reduced medication prior authorization times to just 4-5 minutes. The technology is designed to both streamline pharmacists’ workflows as well as improve patients’ access to medications.
What Are Healthcare Organizations Getting Wrong about Email Security?
A new report by Paubox calls for healthcare IT leaders to dispose of outdated assumptions about email security and address the challenges of evolving cybersecurity threats.
More Than 50 Health Plans Commit to Simplifying Prior Authorization
Several insurers, such as UnitedHealthcare, Aetna and Cigna, pledged to improve prior authorization. These changes include streamlining decision timelines and increasing transparency.
New Cohere Health Solution Aims to Streamline Clinical Reviews for Payers
Cohere Health introduced a new tool for payers called Review Assist. It is meant to support health plan clinical staff with prior authorization reviews and other use cases.
Managing Routine Radiology: An Opportunity to Control Costs and Improve Care
Managing routine radiology does not require the administrative burden of prior authorization. Instead, health plans can implement post-service, pre-payment automated management based on clinical guidelines.
Why One Leader Is Calling Out Insurers’ Inaction on Prior Authorization
The current prior authorization process in U.S. healthcare constitutes a crisis, according to Jesse Ehrenfeld, immediate past president of the American Medical Association. Prior authorization is wasting clinicians’ time, delaying care and deepening public distrust — yet, payers show little urgency in fixing this problem, he said.
Solving Healthcare’s Provider Data Problem Starts with Interoperability
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What is Concurrent Review?
While prior authorization has made many headlines over the past year, concurrent review has not. Yet missteps in both processes leave hospitals in danger of not getting paid, which can result in higher costs being passed down to patients.
A Four-Part Roadmap for Responsible Prior Authorization
The tools exist today to significantly reduce PA's burden on our healthcare system, we just need to mobilize and implement them.
Cohere Health Snags $90M to Automate the Much-Maligned Prior Authorization Process
Cohere Health raked in $90 million in Series C capital, taking its total funding to date to $200 million. This round of funding cements Cohere as the emerging winner in the prior authorization tech category, according to Michael Greeley, general partner at Flare Capital Partners.
Gold Carding Programs Are Meant to Improve Prior Authorization. Are They Working?
Several states and insurers have gold carding programs to streamline prior authorization. However, some say they're falling short.
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How Health Plans Are Adding Up Real Value From AI
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Therapists vs. Insurance: How AI Could End the Battle Over Mental Health Care
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Video: What Would Happen If Prior Authorization Went Away?
Prior authorization is a sore subject for payers and providers. So what if it went away? In a recent fireside chat hosted by MedCity News, Don Antonucci, CEO of Providence Health Plan, shared his thoughts.
Blue Shield of California, Salesforce Partner to Modernize Prior Authorization
During HLTH 2024, Blue Shield of California and Salesforce announced a partnership that will streamline the prior authorization process.
Navigating the Government’s Medicare Advantage Prior Authorization Changes
The reintroduction of the "Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act" marks a critical step toward modernizing the prior authorization process within Medicare Advantage plans. So, what does this mean for patients and providers moving forward?