Prior-auth automation is the highest-ROI AI in healthcare

Prior authorization is the friction everyone in healthcare agrees is broken: slow, manual, costly on both sides. That's precisely why it's the ideal first agent — a high-volume, rule-heavy, painful workflow with measurable savings on day one.

The wedge products aren't trying to reinvent care. They're deleting the paperwork between care and payment.

Signal: the best first AI use case is the one everyone already hates doing by hand.