**Clinical AI** from prior auth to appeals

Cohere Unify™ offers the same clinical intelligence across every workflow — built by practicing clinicians, trusted by leading health plans.

Built for plans. Trusted by clinicians.

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Stats

85%

real-time approvals

47%

admin-cost savings

70%

faster care access

30%

more accurate clinical decisions

What is Cohere Unify?

Many healthcare operational challenges. One AI-powered platform.

Cohere Unify is the foundation underneath every Cohere Health solution — the same clinical AI, decision engines, and EHR integrations powering payment accuracy, appeals, and more. Integrate once, then add capabilities as your needs evolve. Keep human judgment and expertise where it matters. Get consistent intelligence across every workflow.

Why teams choose Cohere Unify

Cohere Health supports the unique needs of health plans.

  • Built on clinical evidence
    Not a digitized workflow with AI bolted on.
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    Built and evaluated
    Evidence-based guidelines
    Defensible automated decisions
  • Modular by design
    One platform, not another silo. Start where it hurts most.
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    Start with one challenge
    Same clinical AI across every module
    Add capabilities as you evolve
  • Audit-ready and compliant
    Built for the regulatory environment you operate in.
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    HITRUST certified
    CMS-0057-F compliant
    Epic, Rhyme, Availity, NaviNet

“The results of Cohere Health’s digital authorization platform have exceeded our expectations.”

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William Shrank
MD, MSHS, Chief Medical Officer at Humana

Built for healthcare's hardest operational challenges

Utilization Management

Touchless prior authorizations, faster medical necessity reviews, and appeals that close before deadlines slip. See how Unify reduces turnaround times while maintaining clinical quality.
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Payment Integrity

Validate payments with the same clinical AI that powers your prior auth — catching errors upstream and reducing post-pay disputes.
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How it Works

Infrastructure your security team will actually approve

Cohere Unify is built on cloud-based, HITRUST-certified infrastructure with native interoperability across the systems health plans and providers already run.
Secure

HITRUST-certified, cloud-based Platform

No internal hosting, no infrastructure overhead. Data protection and compliance audited to the standards your security team requires.
Interoperable

Native integrations with the systems you run

Epic, Rhyme, and CMS-0057-F APIs out of the box. Single sign-on with Availity, NaviNet, and the major provider portals.
Scalable

Proven at enterprise volume

Millions of transactions processed with configurable rules — built to grow with your specialty mix, contract changes, and regulatory shifts.

“Working with Cohere Health is transformational in Geisinger’s long history of clinical innovation…”

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John B.
MD, CMO for Geisinger Health Plan

Integrations

Plugs into the systems you already run

Native support for Epic and Rhyme. CMS-0057-F compliant APIs. Single sign-on with Availity, NaviNet, and the major provider portals. Cohere Unify integrates with hundreds of hospitals and health systems processing touchless prior authorizations daily.

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Ready to see **Cohere Unify**?

A 30-minute demo with our team — tailored to your needs and current pain points.

Frequently asked questions

Stuck on something? We're here to help with all your questions and answers in one place.

What exactly is Cohere Unify, and how is it different from your products?

Cohere Unify is the intelligent foundation that powers all our authorization solutions. Rather than a standalone product, it's the highly-composable underlying platform that provides clinical AI capabilities, interoperability, and workflow intelligence across our entire solution portfolio. This platform approach means you integrate once and can add capabilities without disruption as your needs evolve.

Why does a "platform approach" matter for utilization management and clinical decision workflows?

A platform approach solves your most urgent challenges while building a foundation for future growth. Unlike point solutions that create new silos, every capability built on Cohere Unify shares the same clinical intelligence, connects through the same integration points, and delivers consistent experiences for you and your providers.

How is Cohere Unify different from other authorization solutions on the market?

Unlike traditional authorization tools that focus primarily on digitizing manual processes, Cohere Unify was built from the ground up as a clinical precision AI platform that embeds responsible intelligence directly into clinical workflows.

Do we need to replace our current utilization management systems to use Cohere Unify?

No. Cohere Unify is designed to complement and enhance your existing systems. We can start with specific high-impact areas (like specialty-specific authorizations) while maintaining your current processes elsewhere, allowing for gradual transformation rather than disruptive replacement.

How does the clinical AI actually work within clinical decision and authorization workflows?

Cohere's clinical AI functions as an intelligent copilot throughout the authorization process and additional clinical decision workflows. For providers, it offers guidance within their clinical workflows, suggests appropriate missing documentation before the authorization is submitted, and with 85% real-time approvals for routine requests based on evidence-based guidelines. For health plans, increased auto-approvals achieved with clinical AI reduce the volume of manual reviews and peer-to-peers to drive administrative savings. When manual reviews are still necessary, clinical AI is used to identify unstructured data within clinical documentation, which is mapped to medical policy indications, streamlining the work for reviewers to drive additional savings and improved clinical accuracy. Clinical AI can also be leveraged to identify more appropriate care settings based on the member records, supporting clinical quality and medical expense savings for customers in delegated specialty management arrangements.

What makes your precision AI "clinical grade" compared to other AI solutions?

Our clinical AI is built on a foundation of evidence-based clinical guidelines and trained on millions of real authorization decisions.  >350 Clinician-trained, fine-tuned models consistently outperform state-of-the-art LLMs. Our precision AI offers the ability to assist clinical reviewers with AI/ML to enhance review quality for complex cases. Unlike general-purpose AI, our highly trained LLMs pull unstructured data from clinical attachments using a minimum necessary approach to optimize responsible AI. The result is decision support that both providers and health plans can trust.

How does Cohere Unify help us address new interoperability and prior authorization regulations?

The Cohere Unify platform leverages CRD, DTR, and PAS APIs that fully align with HL7® Da Vinci™ Project implementation guides. The platform also supports “single front door” integrations whereby the provider can submit authorizations through Cohere APIs regardless of which entity performs the clinical review. In addition, Cohere’s approach to medical policy digitization supports greater provider burden reduction in the DTR workflow by eliminating the need to surface clinical assessment questions to the reviewer, instead pulling unstructured indication data directly from clinical documentation. This full support for CMS-0057-F is also available to customers via Cohere Connect™, a standalone solution powered by the Unify platform.

Does Cohere have established practices for handling and encrypting Protected Health Information (PHI)?

Yes, Cohere adheres to regulations under both the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and HiTECH. All Protected Health Information (PHI) received by Cohere Health is protected by administrative, physical, and technical safeguards. All sensitive information we collect is protected by encryption software, both in transit and at rest via AES-256 bit keys and TLS 1.2+, respectively.

Is Cohere and the Unify platform certified for HIPAA compliance?

Yes, Cohere is certified by HITRUST, NCQA, and URAC. Cohere has a Compliance Program based on the OIG Seven Elements of Compliance. This plan has been reviewed and approved by both NCQA and URAC.

What does precision AI mean in the context of payment integrity?

Much like in UM, Cohere Validate and Cohere Complete for PI leverage precision AI, specifically trained on clinical data and reimbursement methodologies, to ensure the highest accuracy in coding and clinical validation.

What measures are in place to ensure platform security in operation and ongoing development?

The Unify platform uses AWS and many of its core services, including the latest cloud and database technology. The portal is available through TLS 1.2+ Cloudfront content distribution and includes a Web Application Firewall (WAF) attached to analyze and monitor all incoming traffic. Multiple AWS VPCs are leveraged to ensure the isolation of environments and overall security. Elastic Load Balancers then direct traffic onward. Fargate and ECS are all used to facilitate the development process in a secure and repeatable manner.

Resources

Thought leadership & research

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White papers

The Tech-Powered Shift from Transactional to Transformational Prior Authorization

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How AI and Machine Learning are Transforming Prior Authorization Today

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How episodic prior authorizations position health plans to transform MSK care management

Whitepaper

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In 2021, national health expenditure amounted to $4.3 trillion - $12,914 per person -and now represents 18.3% of the gross domestic product (GDP).1 So, it’s understandable that so many stakeholders, health plans, providers, and patients, are eager to reduce unnecessary utilization