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The Inflation Reduction Act – or IRA – contains $500 billion in new funding and tax breaks intended to boost clean energy, strengthen taxpayer compliance, and reduce healthcare costs. It includes three provisions concerning Medicare prescription drug prices that have the potential to dramatically impact the pharmaceutical industry, and patient support in particular. For a...

Last week, members of the Infinitus team attended Asembia’s AXS24 Summit, the annual conference that brings together leaders from across the pharmaceutical landscape to discuss the industry’s biggest trends, issues, and developments. Every Asembia summit is a chance to learn – and not only from speakers who take the stage – and this year’s conference...

AI agents are everywhere, with some news outlets proclaiming them to be the future of AI. We don’t disagree.  At Infinitus, we talk a lot about our AI agent and the technology that powers it. Also known as Eva, the Infinitus AI agent makes phone calls to commercial and government payors on behalf of healthcare...

You’re ready to embrace AI. Now what? Any AI solution under consideration should help empower your patient support program to provide streamlined processes and, ultimately, quicker access to medications for those who need them most. To accomplish this, however, you’ll need to be sure you’re choosing the right vendor and that you can get colleagues...

How we use humans in concert with our multi-model, multimodal AI system to deliver real efficiency to over a dozen Fortune 500 healthcare customers Automating administrative phone calls in healthcare is no easy feat. The benefit verifications and prior authorization inquiries Infinitus automates can be an hour long, with hundreds of back-and-forth interactions that require...

There’s a lot to see and do at Asembia’s AXS24 Summit, and more people than you could ever hope to meet in just five days. Which means it takes some preparation to successfully navigate what others have dubbed “spring prom” for the specialty pharmacy industry. I’ve been attending the summit for 10 years, which means...

Since Change Healthcare abruptly shut down its network Feb. 21, disruptions across the healthcare landscape have been far reaching. One unforeseen result has been a backlog of calls to payors and pharmacies, making it even harder for providers to get access to live agents on the phone. In an analysis of calls made by the...

If you ask many experts, they’ll tell you AI is a discipline within computer science. After all, AI is concerned with creating computer systems that can perform tasks typically requiring human intelligence; it makes logical sense.  I understand where those that label AI as computer science are coming from. But I also disagree with them. ...

Increasingly employer-sponsored plans are including copay accumulators, copay maximizers, or alternative funding sources as part of their plan design. In fact, estimates suggest about half of all lives covered by commercial insurance are enrolled in a plan that utilizes a copay accumulator and/or a maximizer.  If your team is responsible for guiding individuals through coverage...

Technically, the annual insurance reverification period (often known as blizzard) lasts just a handful of weeks. However, reality tells a different story. We know our customers spend months preparing for each January, when patients’ access to medication can be put into question because of changes to formularies, deductibles, and out-of-pocket requirements.  With this year’s blizzard...

Chatbots are everywhere in healthcare news, with some outlets even proclaiming the AI-powered technology to be “the future of healthcare.”  At the same time, you’ve likely heard about conversational AI’s potential to transform the industry too.  But when it comes to provider- or payor-facing communications, like phone calls to retail pharmacies or major medical insurance...

2023 will go down in history as the year artificial intelligence in its current incarnation went mainstream, and it won’t be slowing down this year. To many, the technology’s arrival – and pressure to be incorporated at work – felt sudden. Regardless, the healthcare industry is in dire need of the kind of help AI...