Xsolis launches generative AI solution to streamline peer-to-peer reviews following payer denials. By GlobeNewswire September 1, 2026 New Dragonfly capability automatically creates a clinical synopsis to help physician advisors prepare for time-sensitive payer conversations FRANKLIN, Tenn., Sept. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Xsolis, an AI-driven technology company that reduces administrative waste by enabling collaboration between healthcare providers and payers, today announced the general availability of its GenAI Peer-to-Peer Clinical Synopsis solution. The new capability is available within the company's existing solution built for physician advisor teams, Dragonfly Advise(R), and helps physician advisors prepare to discuss denied cases with health plan medical directors. Peer-to-peer conversations must often take place within 24 to 72 hours of a denial, leaving physician advisors limited time to review the medical record and prepare the clinical case supporting a patient's level of care. According to the American Medical Association, nearly half of physicians who do not pursue an appeal cite a lack of time or staff resources, while data compiled by KFF shows that more than 80% of formally appealed denials are ultimately overturned. Xsolis' new capability scans the medical record for key clinical facts, including laboratory results, vital signs, treatment, and patient progress. It then creates a concise patient overview and day-by-day summary of the clinical severity indicators and medical necessity rationale supporting continued inpatient care. Generated automatically when a peer-to-peer review is escalated within Dragonfly Advise, the summary helps the physician advisor quickly understand the case before speaking with the payer. "Peer-to-peer reviews are among the most time-sensitive points in the denial process, and physicians are often preparing for them while managing a full clinical and administrative workflow," said Joan Butters, co-founder and CEO of Xsolis. "By bringing the most relevant clinical facts forward, we can reduce the work required to reconstruct the case, help physician advisors enter the conversation prepared, and surface details that are easy to miss in a complex chart." Xsolis has signed agreements with several health system partners to add the GenAI Peer-to-Peer Clinical Synopsis solution to their utilization management and physician advisor workflows, with implementation underway in the coming months. This launch marks the third generative AI capability Xsolis has introduced within Dragonfly, its AI-powered platform for healthcare providers and health plans. The company previously developed solutions to support appeal letter preparations and streamline initial medical necessity reviews. In a three-month pilot with Beacon Health System, the medical necessity review solution reduced average review time by 68%, from 15 minutes to 4.7 minutes. The GenAI Peer-to-Peer Clinical Synopsis is available as an add-on capability within Dragonfly Advise and can be enabled at the hospital or facility level. The solution's next set of enhancements include the ability for Xsolis' Peer-to-Peer Clinical Synopsis to be consumed within other systems that Physician Advisors utilize for peer-to-peer conversations. About Xsolis Xsolis is an AI-driven technology company that reduces administrative waste by enabling collaboration between healthcare providers and payers. Dragonfly(R), its AI-driven proprietary platform, is the first and only solution to use real-time predictive analytics to continuously assign an objective medical necessity score and assess the anticipated level of care for every patient, enabling more efficiency across the healthcare system. Xsolis is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee. For more information, visit www.xsolis.com. Media contact: Stacy Callahan, Astonish Media Group for Xsolis 917-972-1101 Stacy Callahan, Astonish Media Group for Xsolis [email protected] 917-972-1101

Evening briefing, july 20, 2026: grid squeeze meets AI arms race while Iran keeps oil nervous. Evening check-in from the marketplace. 166 fresh listings across 42 verticals tonight, zero skipped, zero failed - clean run. Here's what stood out. The grid is the real AI bottleneck now. PJM's 2027/2028 capacity auction cleared at $333.44/MW-day and the market is still 6,500 MW short. That's not a rounding error, that's a structural power shortage showing up in a live auction price. Meanwhile the US interconnection queue has swollen to roughly 1,946 GW of proposed capacity waiting to connect, and Moody's is flagging hyperscaler capex topping $700B in 2026 alone. Data center build costs now run $11.3M/MW for standard shell-and-core versus $20M+/MW for AI-optimized builds. The compute race and the power race are now the same race, and power is losing. At the same time, the Dodge Momentum Index slipped 1.9% in June specifically because data center planning cooled. That's a small crack worth watching: are some developers pausing because they can't secure power, not because demand for compute cooled? AI arms race keeps sprinting. Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 just topped the Arena frontend-code leaderboard, edging past Claude Fable 5, though Fable 5 still leads general coding benchmarks. AMD's Helios rack-scale AI system landed Microsoft as a buyer, opening a real second-source option against NVIDIA at the rack level. And in a genuinely notable policy shift, the US cleared NVIDIA and AMD AI chip sales to Chinese firms including a ZTE unit. Export policy on the highest-end compute is loosening at the exact moment power is tightening domestically. Worth sitting with that combination. Also on the radar: MCP's final 2026-07-28 spec ships in 8 days with a stateless core and real breaking changes for server authors - a 12-month deprecation clock starts the moment it lands. Energy: Iran still setting the tone. Oil reversed off one-month highs Monday as Iran signaled room for talks, but Strait of Hormuz transit volumes have collapsed to single digits as tanker incidents keep mounting. Diesel jumped 22 cents to $4.796 nationally - trucking spot rates are already at multi-year tightness (DAT van spot rate topped contract rate for the first time since 2022), so a further diesel spike would compress carrier margins fast. Housing splits further, banks stay calm. Housing starts jumped 19% in June on a multifamily rebound, but single-family stalled and building permits hit a 10-month low. NAHB builder confidence fell to 34. Mortgage rates are at an 11-month high of 6.55% heading into Wednesday's read. Meanwhile household formation slowed to its lowest pace since 2017 - the demand side and supply side of housing are both struggling, just in different ways. Regional banks had a clean Q2: Regions beat EPS at $0.68 with NIM holding 3.66%, Fifth Third and Comerica both grew NII, credit quality stayed benign across peers. Not the story tonight, but a useful counterweight - core lending is fine even as construction financing gets more expensive. Healthcare data keeps leaking. Two big breaches this week: Craneware's billing software breach hit thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies, and a business-associate breach at Xsolis exposed roughly 1.4 million patients across 8 health systems, now under OCR investigation. New Jersey and New York are both moving on sensitive health-data-sale bans. If you sell into healthcare IT, compliance posture just became a bigger differentiator than feature lists. Bottom line. Power availability, not chip availability, is becoming the binding constraint on AI buildout. Diesel and housing are both signaling stress from different directions. And two more healthcare breaches landed in one week - that trend isn't slowing down. 166 listings live tonight across 42 verticals on Vertical Marketplace. Free to browse, 15% commission on sales (sellers keep 85%). Full construction breakdown at roadmap4ai.com. Frequently asked questions. Why did PJM's capacity auction price matter this week? It cleared at $333.44/MW-day while the market remained 6,500 MW short, a live market signal that power supply, not chip supply, is now the binding constraint on data center and AI buildout. What happened with US chip export policy to China this week? The US cleared NVIDIA and AMD AI-chip sales to Chinese firms including a ZTE unit, loosening export restrictions on high-end AI compute even as domestic power capacity tightens. Is the housing market improving or worsening? Both, in different segments: June starts jumped 19% on a multifamily rebound, but single-family stalled, building permits hit a 10-month low, and mortgage rates hit an 11-month high of 6.55%. What is the commission structure on Vertical Marketplace? Browsing is free, and sellers keep 85% of every sale (15% platform commission), with Stripe Connect handling payouts.

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