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New MedCity News Feature: Using AI to Fuel Collaboration

As the healthcare industry works to modernize Utilization Management (UM) with AI, there is a key opportunity to use the efforts to foster collaboration between payers and providers and reduce historic silos. In a new MedCity News byline, Availity Executive Vice President Matt Cunningham explains how to use technology to bridge the payer-provider divide.

The article outlines: 

  • Why payers should take the lead on supporting AI integration and specific steps organizations can take today. 
  • How Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F) and the pledge between AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association will help improve prior authorization processes but to unlock real results the industry must do more. 
  • How the industry can design collaborative AI through transparency, true interoperability and embedding intelligent decision making.

Read the article