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Authorization Advisor
Authorization Advisor

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Product Description:

Authorization Advisor is a generative AI (GenAI)-powered assistant that helps prior auth specialists efficiently submit auth requests on payer portals. The interactive browser sidebar lives in your workflow and enables staff to fill in patient information and authorization details quickly. It reviews relevant medical information and recommends documents to include in the auth request. 

Plus, Authorization Advisor works with any payer portal or service line and most EHRs (including Epic and Cerner). Our AI continuously learns from customer inputs and improves future recommendations.

About AKASA:

AKASA is the preeminent provider of generative AI solutions for the healthcare revenue cycle. Our offerings are built on the AKASA platform, which integrates the company’s proprietary generative AI technology and deep revenue cycle expertise to deliver exceptional impact for hospitals, health systems, and the patients they serve. Our platform is used by more than 475 hospitals and 8,000 outpatient facilities. AKASA helps healthcare organizations improve revenue outcomes, achieve greater efficiency, empower staff, and allocate resources where they matter most.

Product Description:
  • Cohere Unify™ Intake: Digitizing and improving intake across fax, EMR, and portal
  • Cohere Unify™ Decisioning: Prior authorization check, completeness scan, automated clinical review, and pended review pre-processing
  • Cohere Unify™ Review: Queue management, AI-assisted manual review, and letter generation

About Cohere Health:

Cohere Health is a clinical intelligence company that provides intelligent prior authorization as a springboard to better quality outcomes by aligning physicians and health plans on evidence-based care paths for the patient's entire care journey. Cohere's intelligent prior authorization solutions reduce administrative expenses while improving patient outcomes. The company is a winner of the TripleTree iAward and has been named to both Fierce Healthcare's Fierce 15 and CB Insights' Digital Health 150 lists. Cohere's investors include Flare Capital Partners, Define Ventures, Deerfield, Polaris Partners, and Longitude Capital.

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Clients

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Product Capabilities

AKASA Authorization Advisor efficiently extracts key info from your EHR and presents it in an interactive browser sidebar for prior auth specialists to quickly access. Additionally, the AI suggests relevant information for users to populate appropriate fields on payer portals.

Using our powerful GenAI technology, Authorization Advisor reviews relevant medical information and recommends documents to include in auth requests, along with evidence-based justifications. The technology then pulls those suggestions into the sidebar for the RCM team to evaluate.

AKASA Authorization Status Check uses automation to check the status of submitted auth requests and documents the results.

Use Cases

Description:

Prior authorization submissions on payer portals

Pediatric use cases:

Prior auth submissions on payer portals

Users:

Prior auth managers, supervisors, leads, specialists

Description:
  1. Submit Prior Authorization
  2. Check Prior Authorization status
Pediatric use cases:

None provided

Users:
  1. Physicians
  2. Administrative staff
  3. Billing staff
  4. Nurse practitioner

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

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EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner

Hardware Compatibility:

None provided

Integrations:

Other

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic

Hardware Compatibility:

None provided

Client Types

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Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

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Differentiators vs Competitors:

What makes our prior authorization solution unique?

  • Efficiently extracting and presenting key information from your EHR in an interactive browser sidebar: Our sidebar connects to your EHR via FHIR integration to access data needed to help auth specialists quickly fill in patient details and accurately attach relevant documentation, speeding up prior auth submissions.
  • Intelligently suggesting relevant clinical documentation using powerful generative AI: Authorization Advisor reviews relevant medical information and recommends documents to include in auth requests — providing evidence‐based justifications.
  • Seamlessly supports any payer portal or service line, and most EHRs: Stay on top of increasing prior auth requirements and minimize team training by utilizing this integrated and flexible tool designed to handle a higher volume of requests.
  • Dramatically supercharging human performance with AI: In a study, AKASA generative AI empowered staff to find 15% more relevant documents than staff alone in auth requests.
Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

None provided

Differentiators vs Competitors:

The only UM platform designed to support in-house operations, or fully-delegated programs.

Whether a health plan is seeking to innovate their in-house UM operations or outsource utilizing a vendor partner for key service lines, Cohere is uniquely positioned to partner with them to build a path from digital transformation to true care collaboration.

  1. 25-40% reduction of administrative costs
  2. 65 NPS score among providers
  3. 70% faster access to patient care
  4. 15%+ medical cost savings beyond incumbent programs

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