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The revenue cycle company wants to automate claims processing, and RI is banking that Humata's track record of streamlining medical preapprovals should help further that goal.
Dr. Shantanu Nundy is joining the Kentucky-based insurer from health navigation firm Accolade. But he's had a varied career - advising the FDA on AI, teaching, working for the World Bank, practicing medicine and more.
Kevin Smith will become the nonprofit's new finance chief this fall, succeeding Greg Hoffman who retired in June. Smith's appointment comes as Providence works to improve its operations following years of losses.
The regional health plan was in talks with an unnamed national insurer to keep its MA plans afloat. But the agreement sputtered "despite significant effort on all sides," a Providence spokesperson said.
The ruling keeps some protections for gender-affirming care in place, but also upholds several other controversial policies paring back the ACA.
Heidi Overton, a medical doctor and veteran of the America First think tank, currently serves as deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.
Arun Kumar Bhaskara-Baba, who previously held leadership roles at Honeywell Aerospace and Defense and Johnson & Johnson, will join the health system as Mayo works to scale its AI capabilities.
The health system closed its $835 million acquisition of the virtual therapy provider on Monday. Healthcare Dive caught up with Marc Miller to discuss the rationale behind the deal.
Ochsner Health in Louisiana is the first to go live with Epic's new outpatient office visit tool, which leans on its artificial intelligence capabilities to pull insights from patient records.
Ochsner Health, Froedtert ThedaCare Health, Denver Health and Summit Health are the first to adopt the application programming interface, which Epic says should speed up preapprovals for medical items and services.
