Optum is rolling out new AI-powered tools that aim to reduce delays associated with prior authorization. The company unveiled two new platforms aimed at streamlining the decision process: Digital Auth ...

Optum has launched a pair of AI-driven prior authorization products, one designed to speed up submissions on the provider side and another to accelerate clinical reviews for payers. The ...

Health care giant Optum is closing a family medicine clinic in Northeast Portland, only a few years after buying out the long-standing local primary care operation. A letter sent to patients Feb. 5 ...

Prices rose 11% at ambulatory surgery centers after they were bought by Optum, probably because the newly acquired providers were able to negotiate higher prices with insurers, according to a new ...

Base rode SocialFi, memecoins and AI agents to the top of Ethereum’s layer-2 ladder before turning inward to rebuild its core stack. Base creator Jesse Pollak said after rolling out the Base App to ...

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Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show brought ...

After a series of extreme weather events over the past month, NZ has been reminded that disasters aren’t just acts of nature. Rather than a period of reflection and listening post-Voice, we have seen ...