In today’s healthcare landscape, payers and providers face mounting pressure to deliver accurate, efficient, and fair payment outcomes. Yet, longstanding friction between the two sides often undermines collaboration and trust. This session will explore how technology—particularly AI-driven innovations—can act as a bridge, enabling transparency, consistency, and shared confidence in payment integrity.
Lyric’s Chief Product Officer will share strategies for leveraging advanced technology to reduce administrative burden, strengthen data accuracy, and align payers and providers around common goals. Attendees will gain insight into practical applications that build trust while improving operational performance, ensuring that innovation benefits both organizations and the members they serve.

Brian Berkowitz

Akshay Sharma
Akshay Sharma leads AI at Lyric, driving innovations that make payment integrity and accuracy seamless for payers and providers.
An experienced entrepreneur and product leader, he has scaled transformative technologies across healthcare, finance, and artificial intelligence.
He also invests in and incubates ventures that harness technology for meaningful impact.
Lyric
Website: www.lyric.ai
Lyric is the payment integrity Al company trusted by the nation's leading health plans at the beginning of the claims payment workflow. The Lyric platform is built on Al from the ground up and trained on 35 years of clinical expertise with real time integrations across 190 million lives. Lyric reduces wasted healthcare spending and ensures fast, accurate payments that drive transparency between payers and providers. Lyric is recognized as the 2025 Best in KLAS for Pre-payment Accuracy and Integrity.





