Becker’s Healthcare Podcast From Friction to Collaboration: The Future of Payment Integrity
Dec 10, 2025
Join Brian Berkowitz, Chief Product Officer at Lyric, as he unpacks the future of payment integrity. He explores how AI and data can ease administrative burdens and enhance collaboration between payers and providers. Learn about the concept of trusted intelligence zones that harness AI, blockchain, and privacy to strengthen trust. Brian also predicts trends for 2026, highlighting data liquidity and consumer demands as catalysts for innovation, while stressing the importance of accountable and explainable AI in healthcare.
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Alignment Drives Trust And Simplicity
- High administrative friction and misalignment slow healthcare growth and trust between payers and providers.
- Brian Berkowitz says accuracy builds alignment, and alignment is required to achieve trust and simplicity.
AI Arms Race Is Fragmenting Health Systems
- Rapid AI adoption is creating fragmented, competing systems that deepen mistrust between plans and providers.
- Berkowitz warns this arms race duplicates work and distracts from delivering affordable patient care.
Trusted Intelligence Zones As A Digital Trust Fabric
- Trusted intelligence zones create a neutral layer enabling collaboration without exposing proprietary data.
- Berkowitz says this digital trust fabric combines AI mediation, blockchain, and privacy governance for verifiable decisions.