CDO Magazine Podcast Series · 2026-08-12 · 13 min
In the final episode of this three-part series, Muralidhar Vemulapalli, Chief Enterprise Architect and Acting Chief Technology Officer at Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, tells Chris Gengo, Chief Innovation Officer at HiLabs, why AI approving eighty percent of prior authorization requests does not mean reviewers can step back. Vemulapalli lays out the decision-centric architecture, funding discipline, and governance principles health plans need to move AI from pilot to production. The conversation closes with a forecast on which health plans will still be processing claims by the next decade and which will be preventing the risks behind them.
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