Oron Afek, CEO of Vim
The U.S. healthcare system is grappling with a surge in claim denials and prior authorization requirements, creating significant challenges for both providers and patients. To shed light on this pressing…
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Introduction
Prior authorization is a widely implemented process in healthcare, intended to ensure that treatments, tests, and medications are necessary and cost-effective. However, many experts, including Peter Ax, CEO of UpScriptHealth, argue that prior authorization…
Dmitry Sotnikov, Chief Product Officer at Cayosoft
It’s well known that ransomware is on the rise across industries. Healthcare organizations experienced more ransomware attacks than any other critical infrastructure sector last year, according to the…
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The following is a guest article by Scott Ragsdale, Head of U.S. Healthcare Region at Nutanix
Ransomware is a critical threat in today’s business landscape, and the effects of these attacks are especially detrimental for healthcare…
Blue Shield of California is partnering with tech company Salesforce to give physicians and patients prior authorization answers in actual time, instead of days. The aim is to streamline the prior authorization process, while at…
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Despite today’s technological advancements, a large amount of prior authorization requests are submitted via fax machine. A new partnership between Blue Shield of California and Salesforce will address this issue.
The partnership was announced Monday…
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What You Should Know:
– Blue Shield of California and Salesforce are joining forces to tackle a major pain point in healthcare: the lengthy and often frustrating process of prior authorizations.
– The new AI-powered platform…
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Top News
A US Senate subcommittee report finds that UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and CVS disproportionately denied prior authorization PA requests for post-acute care in their Medicare Advantage patients, often by using AI-driven tools.
UnitedHealth’s denial rate…
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Michael Drescher, VP of Payer Strategy at Xsolis
The exasperation among doctors frustrated by prior authorization battles with health insurance providers is not unique. Prior authorization frustrates everyone in the healthcare industry — to say nothing…
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Concord Technologies, which started in 1996, focuses on secure document exchange, counting three of the world's five largest healthcare payers as customers. In this video at the DirectTrust conference, we hear about the use…
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