Stephen J. Hemsley

UnitedHealth used its October 13th earnings call to talk about AI on the insurer's side of the chart.

Chief Executive Stephen Hemsley said AI chart summaries now reach more than 40% of the company's clinicians and claimed appeal cycle times got 26 times shorter.

He gave no method.

Clinicians will meet this as faster prior authorization decisions and faster denials too.

Different kind of AI news out of UnitedHealth's earnings call.

Chief executive Steve Hemsley told investors AI-enabled chart summarization now reaches more than 40% of the company's employed clinicians and has cut chart review time 33%.

And on the appeals side?

AI-enabled research cut appeal cycle times 26%, and Hemsley said that gain will likely speed up next year.

The Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based company, ranked first among American healthcare companies and health insurers by both revenue and enrollment, disclosed the results on Tuesday.

Chief Executive Stephen Hemsley told analysts on a conference call that the company's various business units were showing improvement.

Third quarter revenue came in $1.2 billion above Wall Street projections.

Adjusted earnings reached $4.69 a share, clearing the $4.14 analysts had forecast, a beat of 55 cents per share.

Uh, I still like UnitedHealth.

I mean, it's been kind of volatile, but I'm telling you, you know, Steve Hemsley, when I caught up with him last week, um, is, uh...

You know, I, I've gotta throw a friend in there 'cause he threw a friend in there.

Well, who's your friend? George Kurtz, you're saying?