Abridge, Availity Team Up to Bring Real-Time Prior Authorization to the Point of Care

Overview

• Abridge will integrate its Contextual Reasoning Engine with Availity’s FHIR-native Intelligent Utilization Management platform, formerly known as AuthAI.
• The companies say the tool will capture shared clinical context during visits, flag documentation gaps in real time, and support payer determinations before the patient leaves.
• Abridge reports deployment across more than 200 health systems and projects supporting over 80 million clinician‑patient conversations in 2026.
• Availity cites connectivity to over 95% of payers, more than 3 million providers, and 2,000 trading partners, positioning the collaboration for broad reach.
• The partnership is framed as part of a wider revenue cycle modernization strategy to improve authorization accuracy and reduce administrative burden, with specific deployments and results to be detailed later.