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Sep 10, 2026
Pat LamontNARRATOR
Meanwhile, actress and singer and Bills fan O'Leal Cravalho, who plays Moana's voice, will perform the American anthem.
Pat LamontNARRATOR
The Bills did not say whether this will occur for every home game at Highmark this season after their Thursday night football contest against the Detroit Lions.
Pat LamontNARRATOR
The Canadian anthem has occasionally been played at Bills games before.
Pat LamontNARRATOR
For instance, the Canadian...
Deone WalkerGUEST
I think the heater or whatever that's under the field is going to be a game changer.
Deone WalkerGUEST
But just the atmosphere itself, I love the old Highmark Stadium, but this new one, I don't think there'll be anything like it.
Steve TaskerHOST
Talk to me about what your expectations are for this season.
Steve TaskerHOST
You're coming in and A lot of people have pegged you.
Steve TaskerHOST
So, you know, cross my fingers.
Steve TaskerHOST
All right, Dan, one last one.
Steve TaskerHOST
So how do you anticipate? You were in the old Highmark.
Steve TaskerHOST
Great spot, man.
Padawan JayHOST
Kansas City Chiefs on the road playing the Buffalo Bills, 8:20 PM on NBC.
Ken MHOST
And then [laughs] it's at Highmark too.
Padawan JayHOST
Uh-huh.
Ken MHOST
Oh, that's gonna be a rough night.
Sue CronkiteHOST
Okay, and our third story, and this one is actually good news with a little bit of a catch.
Sue CronkiteHOST
Ambulatory Surgery Center News ran a piece by Leslie Small on August 28th about two non-profit insurers, Highmark and Independence Blue Cross.
Sue CronkiteHOST
They have started steering patients to ambulatory surgery centers for eligible elective procedures.
Sue CronkiteHOST
They're not just encouraging, they're actively steering.
John GoehleHOST
... encouraging us to seek out ambulatory surgery centers, but I thought this was a good thing just to kinda point out s- some of the stuff that's happening out there.
Sue CronkiteHOST
So the two plans went at it in different ways.
Sue CronkiteHOST
Highmark's policy took effect January 1st and applies to fully insured commercial ACA and Medicare Advantage plans.
Sue CronkiteHOST
Certain procedures are deemed medically necessary only in the lowest cost appropriate setting unless an exception applies, and the procedure list is rotator cuff repairs, certain cardiac ablations, tonsillectomies, and select eye surgeries.
Scott Van PeltHOST
Hashtag go Bills.
Scott Van PeltHOST
Why? He doesn't like it? He wants to go back to Highmark? Yeah.
Scott Van PeltHOST
I think they bulldozed it.
Scott Van PeltHOST
I will say no place felt like it matched its tenants quite like that.
Dave MyersHOST
Man.
Dave MyersHOST
What happens if – and I don't think it's going to happen, but what happens if the first ever game at the new Highmark Stadium is not a win for the Bills? That will be something that we'll be talking about forever.
RadHOST
Someone complain about the grass.
RadHOST
I don't even want to
8 MINS LATER
RadHOST
This is a win.
RadHOST
This is a win.
RadHOST
I know they bested us last year coming into Buffalo, coming into Highmark, and playing that absolutely atrocious rivalries game.
RadHOST
But I think honestly, in my heart of hearts that this is a team that may go undefeated at home.
Michael BarberGUEST
Yeah.
GeneHOST
It's about three weeks ago, and it was really a fascinating insight into how Highmark Health, which is a major health insurance player in the Western PA market, but also nationally, right? And all the fascinating things you guys are doing in terms of AI governance and health tech.
GeneHOST
So it's something that I really would love to get into and, you know, have a conversation about.
GeneHOST
So why don't we get started with just introductions? Michael, do you want to give a brief intro to people about yourself? How do you get into this?
Michael BarberGUEST
Thank you for having me.
Michael BarberGUEST
So I'm Michael Barber.
Michael BarberGUEST
I am currently Senior Director of Responsible AI at Highmark Health.
Michael BarberGUEST
I can get into a little bit about what Highmark is and what we do.
Susan Rawlings MolinaGUEST
And so what's happened really very recently this year, I know in our own case, we were working with one of our largest customers in a study that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine that proved an ROI very capably.
Susan Rawlings MolinaGUEST
At the same time that study was released, There were CMS released a study that they had done over the last several years on navigation and Highmark likewise produced some results.
Susan Rawlings MolinaGUEST
That was a very similar program to the one we did with our customer that it's now properly tested, documented.
Susan Rawlings MolinaGUEST
So you can get a little bit of results on a little bit of spend because the giant tech, the kind of technology capability is not, it's fairly inexpensive and it covers a chunk of the population.
Kate McCordGUEST
Blue Cross Blue Shield is who I worked for.
Kate McCordGUEST
It's Highmark where I live.
Kate McCordGUEST
It's Anthem now.
Kate McCordGUEST
It was Highmark for a little bit in New York.
Kate McCordGUEST
They went up there, but like, yeah, it's always.
Jill SmithHOST
It's not, it's, it's gone downhill big time since they switched.
Chris ArnoldGUEST
They are the biggest lobbying firm in the state.
Chris ArnoldGUEST
right now so they have the power they basically have the politicians in their back pocket let's just be honest with you how that is our state association we fight very hard for the people that we have that are standing up against them we try to push back as much as possible but they basically write the laws they have the politicians and basically they can make more or less the rules that they do now that doesn't mean that we are powerless we're making some really important changes every time that something is coming up with the insurance companies we are pushing back against them Mike and I were just speaking earlier, we have a big meeting with Highmark coming up.
Chris ArnoldGUEST
We're going to be actually pushing back on some of their new metrics and their new authorization systems that they're proposing.
Chris ArnoldGUEST
So we're meeting them on a regular basis to push back on that.
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