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Members want more from their health plans: clarity, affordability and support before health concerns become crises. But many plans are still stuck in reactive mode. This on-demand conversation, recorded live at Becker’s Fall 2025 Payer Issues Roundtable, explores how leading…

Health plans are under growing pressure to improve accuracy, accelerate recoveries and reduce waste. AI is helping meet that challenge — not by replacing workflows, but by making them more intelligent and responsive. By analyzing structured and unstructured data, from…

Medicare Advantage continues its rapid growth, with over 32.5 million enrollees in 2024—now representing more than half of the eligible Medicare population. [source] As the older adult population expands, payer organizations face the critical challenge of delivering highly personalized, quality care at…

CMS mandates for interoperability, patient access and prior authorization — CMS-9115-F and CMS-0057-F — are fundamentally changing how payers and providers must share data, with enforcement deadlines extending into 2026. The good news: Compliance doesn’t necessarily require ripping and replacing…

AI is flooding healthcare, but not all of it improves outcomes or deserves trust. For payer leaders overseeing utilization, case management and other clinical operations, the question isn’t whether to adopt AI — it’s how to evaluate the right kind.…

AI is flooding healthcare, but not all of it improves outcomes or deserves trust. For payer leaders overseeing utilization, case management and other clinical operations, the question isn’t whether to adopt AI — it’s how to evaluate the right kind.…

Payers face growing pressure to modernize utilization management. Between rising provider abrasion, evolving expectations from AHIP and CMS, and intensifying market competition, traditional UM strategies no longer cut it. In this on-demand session, you’ll learn what the AHIP-CMS pledge signals…

Provider network performance is now a competitive differentiator for health plans. Members expect choice and access, regulators expect adequacy and parity, and executives expect measurable ROI. The catch: artificial intelligence and machine learning only create value when the underlying network…

Payers are prioritizing tech investments but the real challenge is balance.  Reducing friction for providers while maintaining evidence-based decisions remains a critical tension. AI is now central to solving this, especially in replacing slow, manual reviews that delay care, drain…

Federal healthcare policy is shifting fast. Expiring pandemic-era tax credits, research funding cuts and increasing prior authorization pressures are already reshaping how care is delivered and reimbursed. During this virtual learning session, hear from two Cigna senior leaders on how…