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Welcome to the Empowered Patient Podcast with Karen Jagoda.  This show is a window into the latest innovations in digital health and the changing dynamic between doctors and patients.

Topics on the show include

  • the emergence of precision medicine and breakthroughs in genomics
  • advances in biopharmaceuticals
  • age-related diseases and aging in place
  • using big data from wearables and sensors
  • transparency in the medical marketplace
  • challenges for connected health entrepreneurs

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Jan 31, 2022

Matt Murphy is the EVP of Network and Clinical Content at Cohere Health, innovators in utilization management and prior authorization for tests, services, and drugs. By taking a patient-first approach means reviewing cases on behalf of the Cohere health plan clients as well as with an eye to the health outcomes of patients.

Matt explains," Utilization management really evolved as an adversarial exercise with health plans pitted against physicians. And if you think about the key areas where it's impacting patients and physicians more broadly, really it's three things. First is delays in care and access. Really there shouldn't be anything coming in between a patient and the care they need as long as it's clinically appropriate. So I'd say that's probably the first issue."

"A few weeks ago, we reported out jointly with Humana, one of our first clients, on the impact we had in year one, and it was tremendous in terms of medical expense savings. But I think it goes back to the philosophical differences people have in utilization management."

"On one side, you have a number of folks who think that the only way to drive down medical expense is to deny services versus our vision, which is if you truly are driving the right clinical care for patients and the highest value care, you're inherently going to have lower expense. So I think if you can kind of transition across that philosophical boundary into the focus on clinical outcomes, you inherently save money."

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