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What Agentic AI Actually Changes About Care Navigation

Agent Dora is HealthMe's answer to a specific question: what happens when a care navigator has a tool that reasons the way they do, at a scale no person could match alone. In June 2026, HealthMe launched Agent Dora, an agentic AI care navigation tool built into the HealthMe Direct Specialty Care platform, to change that. Dora doesn't hand a navigator a list. It reasons through millions of structured data points, provider capabilities, transparent pricing, care pathways, network coverage, and comes back with a recommendation the navigator can act on immediately.

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Introducing CareNav Connect™ from HealthMe: Navigating What’s Next in Healthcare

Introducing CareNav Connect™, a turnkey solution designed to simplify the process of direct contracting with self-insured employers for independent medical practices. CareNav Connect streamlines care navigation, offers transparent pricing, and eliminates intermediaries, allowing practices to focus on patient care and direct-to-employer relationships in the evolving healthcare landscape.

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Case Study: Finding Competitive Advantage through Transparent Pricing and Bundled Services with the Orthopedic Associates of St. Louis.

In their strategic collaboration with HealthMe, Orthopedic Associates, a successful independent surgical practice in St. Louis market, has successfully differentiated themselves by embracing transparent pricing. This approach has not only enhanced their patient experience and practice efficiency but also positioned them to achieve a 100% year-over-year increase in direct pay patient revenue.

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Achieving Financial Growth and Enhancing Patient Experience: A Collaborative Case Study of HealthMe and the Center for Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics

This blog post highlights a successful collaboration between the Center for Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics (CSMO) and HealthMe. By implementing price transparency and direct-pay options, CSMO achieved revenue growth, improved patient experience, and positioned their practice to align with self-insured employers.

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What’s Next: Transparent Pricing and Good Faith Estimate Requirements

Because of our deep experience and technology platform required to bring transparent pricing to patients, we have just launched the HealthMe GFE Engine™. It is seamlessly integrated with the HealthMe direct pay platform and is ready for your use today. It’s fully tested with no additional software to install, no new equipment, and most importantly, has been legally reviewed and determined to meet current requirements.

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HealthMe Launches Automated Good Faith Estimate (GFE) Solution

HealthMe, a leader in direct payment solutions that enable medical groups and practices to provide transparent prices and a shoppable online marketplace, announced today at ViVE 2022 the launch and general availability of the HealthMe GFE Engine™. To date, 18 major orthopedic practices have adopted the HealthMe GFE Engine to stay compliant with the No Surprises Act and Good Faith Estimate (GFE) requirements.

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Meet HealthMe at Upcoming Health Care Conferences

The team at HealthMe is excited to be able to interact again with healthcare industry friends and colleagues at some highly anticipated events this summer and fall. While Zoom has been a great go-to tool as a temporary replacement for in-person activities, we have to admit that we’ve missed these face-to-face interactions! Healthcare is a people business after all. Interacting with others is part of our nature.

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Price Transparency: Closing the Healthcare “What Does it Cost?” Gap

What happens when a potential patient calls your office and asks to make an appointment? If yours is like most medical clinics, your front desk staff will ask a very common question: “What insurance do you have?”But, what if they don’t have healthcare insurance or self-insure? According to the Congressional Budget Office, about 31 million Americans did not have health insurance in 2020. With the impact of the pandemic, that number is likely higher today. Beyond the uninsured, 94 million Americans (60% of the U.S. workforce!) are employed by self-insured employers.

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HealthMe Wins Florida Venture Award

HealthMe was awarded the 2nd Runner Up prize for the 2020 Florida Early Stage Capital Conference in October 2020. The Early Stage Capital Conference is put on by Space Florida and the Florida Venture Forum each year to support the startup ecosystem in the state. In 2020, over 100 startups across the state of Florida competed in the competition, which involved pitching a virtual room of investors and venture capitalists. As 2nd Runner Up, HealthMe was awarded $20,000.

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