How much does Cohere Health cost?

No pricing is published; Cohere sells through a discovery session and frames value as ROI multiples.

What are the best alternatives to Cohere Health?

Based on documented capability coverage across the Agentic Index 14 point taxonomy, the closest alternatives to Cohere Health among healthcare agents are Ember Copilot, Infinitus, Alaffia Health, Anterior. Each is graded on the same public evidence, and no vendor pays for placement.

Does Cohere Health support MCP and tool calling?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Cohere Health publishes public evidence of Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, tool calling, and API or SDK extensibility for connecting agents to external tools. Evidence basis: Cohere Connect provides production FHIR APIs into the platform, covering Coverage Requirements Discovery, Documentation Templates and Rules and Prior Authorization Support on the published HL7 Da Vinci guides with SMART on FHIR, and Policy. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does Cohere Health have SOC 2, SSO and role based access control?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Cohere Health publishes public evidence of enterprise security and identity controls, covering a compliance posture such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001, single sign on (SSO or SAML), and role based access control (RBAC). Evidence basis: HITRUST certification and HIPAA compliance are stated, and Policy Studio has role based access and configurable approvals for policy teams. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does Cohere Health give you tracing and observability into agent runs?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Cohere Health publishes public evidence of tracing, observability and audit logging into agent runs, so a team can see what an agent did and why. Evidence basis: Outputs are transparent and auditable. Each approval or pend carries its clinical basis to the provider, appeals are completed with full auditability, and Policy Studio keeps decision traceability back to the source policy with automatic ve. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

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Cohere Health

Q: Who is Cohere Health for?

health plans, payers, enterprise

Also known as: Cohere Unify

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Healthcare agentindependentVerified 2026-09-29

Entry priceContact sales. No pricing is published.Full pricing detail

Clinical intelligence platform for health plans whose Cohere Unify decides prior authorizations, approving 85 percent in real time and sending the rest to clinicians for review, and extends to payment integrity, appeals, care management, claims and quality, with FHIR prior authorization APIs.

Cohere Health sells Cohere Unify, a clinical intelligence and operations platform for health plans. It has four layers. An Agentic Harness orchestrates workflows, oversight and progressive autonomy. An Agentic Skills Library holds reusable capabilities built by clinicians and domain experts. A Clinical Context Layer links symptoms, treatments, diagnoses, policies and 4,500+ codified guidelines, and the fourth layer is an AI data platform. In utilization management, Decision approves about 85 percent of prior authorizations in real time against the plan's business rules and policies.

Pended requests go to clinical reviewers with the evidence already extracted, and Review Assist surfaces indications inside the plan's existing UM system. Policy Studio digitizes the plan's medical policies into versioned, structured assets with role based access and approvals, and Cohere Connect provides the CMS-0057-F FHIR APIs (CRD, DTR, PAS). The platform also covers payment integrity, appeals, care management, claims rule management and HEDIS quality. It is HITRUST certified and tunes each plan's decision automation against its KPIs and historical data.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://www.coherehealth.com

Funding status

Venture backed; acquired ZignaAI Sep 2025

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

prior authorization automationutilization managementpayment integrityappeals reviewcare management

Target customers

health planspayersenterprise

Deployment options

SaaS

Integrations

Cohere Connect serves the CMS-0057-F FHIR APIs on the HL7 Da Vinci guides (CRD, DTR, PAS) with SMART on FHIR. Decision connects to major EHR and UM systems, and policy distribution APIs reach portals, transparency sites, UM decisioning and appeals.

In practice

A health plan's prior authorization queue backs up every week. Requests arriving from providers through FHIR APIs and the portal are decided automatically, with 85 percent approved in real time, and pended requests go to clinical experts before any other determination.

A policy team keeps its medical policies in documents. Policy Studio ingests them into structured, versioned assets traceable to source, with role based access and configurable approvals, and distributes them through APIs to portals, UM decisioning and appeals.

A plan wants AI help on appeals without replacing its UM system. It adopts Appeals on its own, and Review Assist overlays the existing UM system so reviewers see the case the AI has prepared before they decide.

Sources & related URLs

Research sources

https://www.coherehealth.com/ https://www.coherehealth.com/news/ai-powered-ambient-prior-authorization-provider-experience https://www.coherehealth.com/blog/agentic-ai-health-plans-why-it-matters https://intuitionlabs.ai/articles/cohere-health-ai-prior-authorization

Agentic Index coverage score

10.5 / 14 capabilities · 75%

Integrations & Tool Calling	Full
Cohere Connect serves production CMS-0057-F FHIR APIs on the HL7 Da Vinci guides (Coverage Requirements Discovery, Documentation Templates and Rules, Prior Authorization Support) with SMART on FHIR apps, Decision connects with major EHR and UM systems, and Policy Studio APIs distribute policies to portals, UM decisioning and appeals. Sourcecoherehealth.com/utilization-management/api-basedread 2026-09-29
Workflow Orchestration	Full
An Agentic Harness, a governance framework that orchestrates workflows, oversight and progressive responsibility, runs in Cohere Unify over an Agentic Skills Library of reusable capabilities. Decisioning is tailored to the plan's business rules, and complex cases are routed to manual review. Sourcecoherehealth.com/platformread 2026-09-29
Knowledge Grounding & RAG	Full
A Clinical Context Layer, a payer-optimized ontology linking symptoms, treatments, diagnoses, policies and guidelines across 4,500+ codified policies, sits beside Policy Studio, which ingests the plan's own medical policies into structured, versioned assets with traceability back to source. Decisions run against Cohere, custom plan and third party guidelines. Sourcecoherehealth.com/utilization-management/policy-studioread 2026-09-29
Human Oversight & Guardrails	Full
The AI approves or pends each request. Pended requests are reviewed by clinical experts before a determination, complex cases go to manual review after the AI has prepared them, and a progressive autonomy framework with human in the loop oversight governs what is automated, so a person reviews before any decision other than approval takes effect. Sourcecoherehealth.com/guiding-principles-of-airead 2026-09-29
Security, Identity & Governance	Full
HITRUST certification and HIPAA compliance are stated, and Policy Studio has role based access and configurable approvals for policy teams. Sourcecoherehealth.com/platformread 2026-09-29
Observability & Auditability	Full
Outputs are transparent and auditable. Each approval or pend carries its clinical basis to the provider, appeals are completed with full auditability, and Policy Studio keeps decision traceability back to the source policy with automatic versioning. Sourcecoherehealth.com/platformread 2026-09-29
Memory & State Persistence	Not documented
Shared clinical context across functions and the AI data platform hold the plan's patient and operational data, not agent memory, and there is no memory layer with a scope or lifetime. Sourcecoherehealth.com/platformread 2026-09-29
Deployment & Data Residency	Partial
Deployment is flexible, with approved data residency, but there is no named region, customer environment or way to select one. Sourcecoherehealth.com/platformread 2026-09-29
Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs	Full
An Agentic Skills Library holds reusable capabilities built by clinicians and domain experts, and plans can adopt the products separately, one at a time. The products are Intake, Decision, Review Assist as a standalone, Policy Studio, Auth Match, Data Mining, Appeals, Care Management and Quality. Each works on its own if another is left out. Sourcecoherehealth.com/platformread 2026-09-29
Triggers & Channel Coverage	Full
Prior authorization requests that arrive from providers through the FHIR APIs and portal are decided automatically, 85 percent approved in real time, with no one at the plan starting the work. Sourcecoherehealth.com/decisionread 2026-09-29
Model Flexibility & Routing	Not documented
Decisions run on 350+ proprietary AI and ML models and domain specific systems trained on health plan decisions, with no third party provider or customer model choice. Sourcecoherehealth.com/decisionread 2026-09-29
APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility	Full
Cohere Connect provides production FHIR APIs into the platform, covering Coverage Requirements Discovery, Documentation Templates and Rules and Prior Authorization Support on the published HL7 Da Vinci guides with SMART on FHIR, and Policy Studio distributes policies through APIs. No private developer portal is linked. Sourcecoherehealth.com/utilization-management/api-basedread 2026-09-29
Testing, Debugging & Optimization	Full
The platform continuously monitors each plan's decision automation against KPIs, tests results against historical data and refines rules to maximize accuracy within the plan's quality standards, and models are monitored for bias, drift and accuracy, so the plan's own automation is tuned after deployment. Sourcecoherehealth.com/decisionread 2026-09-29
Browser & Computer Use	Not documented
Review Assist overlays the plan's UM system as a reviewer interface, and reviewers copy insights back themselves. There is no browser, desktop or computer control. Sourcecoherehealth.com/utilization-management/in-house/review-assistread 2026-09-29

The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded

Product updates

October 20, 2026·Agent capabilityVerified

Medical benefit drug utilization management now runs on Cohere Health's Cohere Unify platform, so drug and medical services prior authorization now share the same clinical intelligence layer. Its AI assembles the documentation and plan specific criteria for each drug review, automates policy aligned requests in real time and routes complex cases to expert reviewers with the clinical context attached. The capability is available now to new and existing health plan clients.

Bears on: Workflow orchestration

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August 10, 2026·IntegrationsPartially Verified

Cohere Health integrated Amazon Bedrock AgentCore into its Policy Studio to power multi-tenant clinical policy digitization. The update utilizes AgentCore Runtime's secure MicroVM isolation, AgentCore Gateway for unified tool access, and AgentCore Memory to transform unstructured policies into machine-readable data for agentic workflows.

Bears on: Security / enterprise

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View all 2 Cohere Health updates →Tracked since Aug 2026 · Verified from public vendor sources

Pricing

Contact sales. No pricing is published.

What is public

No public pricing. Cohere frames value as up to 18x return on utilization management, 9x on payment integrity and up to 47 percent administrative savings on Decision.

Variable cost rationale

No rate, billing unit or cap is published. Nothing published says whether the price follows covered lives or the modules a health plan adopts, or what limits it.

Sales call required

Yes, required for paid access

Free / trial

None published

Lowest paid plan

Not published

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-29

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