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Different types of AI are rapidly evolving – from ML and NLP to GenAI and Agentic AI. Health Plans are still testing use cases, assessing ROI, and building the infrastructure to support implementation. PI leaders will share lessons learned so far in their efforts to build the foundation for AI to drive payment accuracy.

  • How to structure governance to support implementation
  • The framework for responsible use of AI
  • Data quality management – preparing data amidst legacy systems and fragmentation

Building a successful Special Investigations Unit takes more than just hiring investigators. It requires the right mix of people, technology, and processes to detect and act on fraud across commercial, Medicaid, and pharmacy lines of business. In this session, Carl Reinhardt draws on over two decades of SIU leadership at Anthem to share a practical blueprint for building and scaling an effective investigations function. Attendees will learn.

  • The key roles, skill sets, and team structures needed to build an SIU from the ground up
  • The tools and applications required to support investigations across multiple lines of business and geographies
  • How to scale SIU operations as membership grows, and lessons learned from managing investigations across commercial and Medicaid populations

Author:

Carl Reinhardt

Director of Special Investigations Unit – West
Anthem Blue Cross

Carl Reinhardt

Director of Special Investigations Unit – West
Anthem Blue Cross

In this panel discussion, payment integrity leaders will share how they are building data workflows that support day-to-day PI operations. The session will focus on how to move from fragmented systems and static reporting to connected, actionable workflows that enable earlier intervention and better decision-making.

  • Connecting core data sources (claims, eligibility, provider, UM) to support effective PI workflows
  • Turning analytics into usable insights for reviewers and operations teams
  • Building scalable, standardised workflows for triage, case management, and audit tracking
Panelists

Author:

Diane Nguyen

Senior Project Specialist, Payment Integrity Planning and Implementation
Priority Health

Diane Nguyen

Senior Project Specialist, Payment Integrity Planning and Implementation
Priority Health

Author:

Sri Saikrishnan

VP Data and Intelligence
InnovAge

Sri Saikrishnan

VP Data and Intelligence
InnovAge

Author:

Melvin Moore

Director of Informatics Reporting & Analytics
Independence Blue Cross

Melvin Moore

Director of Informatics Reporting & Analytics
Independence Blue Cross

Author:

Timmeca Jones

Director of Claims Operations
Health Plan of San Joaquin

Timmeca Jones

Director of Claims Operations
Health Plan of San Joaquin

Building a successful Special Investigations Unit takes more than just hiring investigators. It requires the right mix of people, technology, and processes to detect and act on fraud across commercial, Medicaid, and pharmacy lines of business. In this session, Carl Reinhardt draws on over two decades of SIU leadership at Anthem to share a practical blueprint for building and scaling an effective investigations function. Attendees will learn.
- The key roles, skill sets, and team structures needed to build an SIU from the ground up
- The tools and applications required to support investigations across multiple lines of business and geographies
- How to scale SIU operations as membership grows, and lessons learned from managing investigations across commercial and Medicaid populations

Author:

Carl Reinhardt

Director of Special Investigations Unit – West
Anthem Blue Cross

Carl Reinhardt

Director of Special Investigations Unit – West
Anthem Blue Cross

In partnership with AMPS.

Author:

Mark Noel

SVP, GM ClaimInsight
Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions

Mark Noel

SVP, GM ClaimInsight
Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions

Author:

Matt Akromis

Vice President of Client Success ClaimInsight
Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions

Matt Akromis

Vice President of Client Success ClaimInsight
Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions

In partnership with Optum

Author:

Tisha Holden

Market President
Optum

Serving as Market President at Optum, Tisha has spent more than 25 years at the forefront of health plan innovation, helping clients build strategic, comprehensive programs to address their toughest challenges and achieve financial health and operational excellence at scale. 

Tisha Holden

Market President
Optum

Serving as Market President at Optum, Tisha has spent more than 25 years at the forefront of health plan innovation, helping clients build strategic, comprehensive programs to address their toughest challenges and achieve financial health and operational excellence at scale. 

Clinical data is becoming the foundation that enables payment integrity to evolve from payment recovery to prevention, impacting payment accuracy and broader healthcare affordability goals. But this shift requires transforming how clinical data, AI, PI processes and people are aligned. Through a case study example, payment integrity and clinical data leaders from BCBS of South Carolina will discuss an innovative approach to using real-time clinical data to generate their own ‘claims’ to guide pre-payment reviews. Key topics will include:
  • Developing a roadmap for effective clinical data integration into pre-pay PI decision making and workflows
  • Reimagining the PI process – new capabilities, collaboration, and upscaling staff
  • Lessons learned while shifting from traditional post-pay operations and governance

Author:

Karen S. Campbell

Senior Director, Payment Integrity, Payor Innovations Division
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina

Karen Campbell is Senior Director for Payment Integrity at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. She has been part of Payment Integrity team since early inception and helped develop core team capabilities from data mining to policy application and clinical support. Her recent focus has been on solution deployment that expands system edits, provider education and increases clinical claim reviews both pre-pay and post-pay.  She has worked closely with Operations, Decision Support and Medical Affairs to help take new policies, technology and edits from inception to deployment throughout the organization.

Karen S. Campbell

Senior Director, Payment Integrity, Payor Innovations Division
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina

Karen Campbell is Senior Director for Payment Integrity at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. She has been part of Payment Integrity team since early inception and helped develop core team capabilities from data mining to policy application and clinical support. Her recent focus has been on solution deployment that expands system edits, provider education and increases clinical claim reviews both pre-pay and post-pay.  She has worked closely with Operations, Decision Support and Medical Affairs to help take new policies, technology and edits from inception to deployment throughout the organization.

Author:

Autumne Smith

Director, Connected Health Services
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
Autumne Smith is the Director of Connected Health Services at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, where she leads enterprise initiatives focused on interoperability, clinical data exchange, regulatory readiness, and connected health innovation. With more than 10 years of experience across health care data, technology, governance, and operations, Autumne brings together business strategy, technical execution, and compliance rigor to advance how health information is exchanged, governed, and used to improve outcomes.
Autumne earned her Master’s in Health Information Technology from the University of South Carolina and her Bachelor of Art in Psychology from Winthrop University.

Autumne Smith

Director, Connected Health Services
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
Autumne Smith is the Director of Connected Health Services at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, where she leads enterprise initiatives focused on interoperability, clinical data exchange, regulatory readiness, and connected health innovation. With more than 10 years of experience across health care data, technology, governance, and operations, Autumne brings together business strategy, technical execution, and compliance rigor to advance how health information is exchanged, governed, and used to improve outcomes.
Autumne earned her Master’s in Health Information Technology from the University of South Carolina and her Bachelor of Art in Psychology from Winthrop University.