MCG Health’s Dr. Sabitha Rajan to Speak at 2019 Texas Covered Health Care Conference + Expo
Summary
Dr. Rajan will participate in the discussion “Rebooting the Prior Authorization Process for the 21st Century” along with Jason Wallis, the Vice President of Payer Solutions at Availity; Nick Bennett, Director of Healthcare Product Sales at TriZetto; and panel moderator, Don Langer, the CEO of Community Plan of Texas. During this 50-minute session, Dr. Rajan and her fellow panelists will review new software, artificial intelligence tools, and analytics solutions that can improve the prior authorization process for both payers and providers. Driven by an agenda tailored to reflect the pressing issues of the day, conference presentations, panels and conversations cover the wide range of challenges and opportunities posed by federal health reform, state policies and budget issues, as well as the ins and outs of operating health plans and health care entities on a day-to-day basis. Each year in the U.S., care guidance from Hearst Health reaches 85 percent of discharged patients, 205 million insured individuals, 90 million home health visits and 3.2 billion dispensed prescriptions. Hearst also holds a minority interest in the precision medicine and oncology analytics company M2Gen.