Medication Intelligence Insights

The Rising Burden of Polypharmacy: A Systemic Challenge Requiring Systemic Solutions

Posted by Arine, Mar 06, 2026

Polypharmacy — defined as the concurrent use of five or more prescription medications — has become one of the most pressing and underaddressed challenges in U.S. healthcare.

Medications: The Missing Link in Value-Based Care

Posted by Yoona Kim, PharmD, PhD, Jan 07, 2026

For all the progress made in shifting the U.S. healthcare system toward value-based care, one of the most powerful levers ...

Why Smart Plans Double Down on Their Medication Strategy for Star Rating Success

Posted by Yoona Kim, PharmD, PhD, Jan 07, 2026

With the release of CMS Star Ratings for 2026 and updates for the upcoming year, Medicare Advantage and Part D plans are ...

Get Ahead on Adherence and Beyond: What Health Plans Need to Do Now to Maximize Star Ratings

Posted by Arine, Dec 16, 2025

Stay ahead of 2026 CMS Part D measure changes. Hear from Dr. Saba Syed on proposed updates and steps Medicare Advantage ...

What Health Plans Need to Do Now to Get Ahead on Medicare Star Ratings

Posted by Arine, Oct 15, 2025

Prepare Now for MY2026 and Beyond Updated January 6, 2026 Medicare Advantage (MA) now serves over half of all Medicare ...

Using AI to Drive Patient Outcomes & Health Plan ROI

Posted by Jennifer Kloke, PhD, Head of AI at Arine, Yoona Kim, PharmD, PhD, Co-founder and CEO at Arine, Sep 05, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has dominated conversations among health plans and providers, given its potential to transform ...

What is Fueling Arine’s Growth? We’re Solving a Massive, Urgent Healthcare Challenge

Posted by Arine, Aug 21, 2025

What is Fueling Arine’s Growth? We’re Solving a Massive, Urgent Healthcare Challenge Arine has, for the second consecutive ...

Arine Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies for Second Consecutive Year

Posted by Arine, Aug 12, 2025

AI-Powered Medication Intelligence Company Ranks No. 432 Overall and No. 16 in the Artificial Intelligence and Data ...

Arine Named 2025 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum

Posted by Arine, Aug 01, 2025

World Economic Forum honors Arine for groundbreaking innovation in AI-driven medication optimization and its impact on ...

Arine Raises Series C to Scale AI-Driven Medication Optimization and Power Value-Based Outcomes

Posted by Arine, Jun 24, 2025

Town Hall Ventures Leads $30M Funding Round, with Participation from Kaiser Permanente Ventures Arine, an artificial ...

From Data to Decisions: How AI is Transforming Managed Care Pharmacy to Deliver Cost Savings

Posted by Arine, May 14, 2025

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to transform healthcare, not all solutions deliver results. Join Arine's Head of ...

The Untapped Opportunity in Healthcare: Optimizing Medications

Posted by Arine, Apr 25, 2025

For health plans, the numbers are sobering: rising medical loss ratios, escalating healthcare costs, and increasingly ...

MDX Hawaii and Arine Partner to Enhance Medication Optimization, Improve Health Outcomes, and Reduce Costs

Posted by Arine, Apr 24, 2025

MDX Hawaii Taps into Arine’s AI-Powered Platform to Enhance Patient Care HONOLULU, HI & SAN FRANCISCO, CA (April 24, ...

Accelerated Outcomes: Adherence Case Study

Posted by Arine, Mar 17, 2025

At midyear, this Medicare Advantage plan saw its adherence measures tracking to just 1-2 stars. That’s when they turned to ...

Inc. Names Arine Co-founders Yoona Kim and Penjit “Boom” Moorhead to Its 2025 Female Founders 500 List

Posted by Arine, Mar 11, 2025

Inc. Names Arine Co-founders Yoona Kim and Penjit “Boom” Moorhead to Its 2025 Female Founders 500 List Inc.’s eighth annual ...

Magellan Resonate Behavioral Health Case Study

Posted by Arine, Mar 04, 2025

See how Magellan Health leveraged Arine’s AI-powered platform to reduce costs in a Behavioral Health population by up to ...

Medicare Advantage Plans-4+ Stars on the Toughest Part D Star Measures

Posted by Arine, Dec 10, 2024

A Guide for Medicare Advantage Plans: Achieving 4+ Stars on the Toughest Part D Star Measures The Lowest-Performing Part D ...

Value-Based Care Solutions for Population Health—Measure What Matters

Posted by Arine, Oct 03, 2024

Value-Based Care Solutions for Population Health—Measure What Matters In today's healthcare landscape, value-based care ...

Why Arine Made the Inc. 5000 List

Posted by Arine, Aug 26, 2024

Why Arine Made the Inc. 5000 List Inc. Magazine recently recognized Arine as one of the fastest-growing private companies in ...

Inc. 5000 Names Arine Among Fastest-Growing Private American Companies

Posted by Arine, Aug 13, 2024

Inc. 5000 Names Arine Among Fastest-Growing Private American Companies AI-Driven Medication Optimization Platform Ranks 236 ...

Arine Attains HITRUST Risk-Based, 2-year Certification

Posted by Arine, Jul 29, 2024

Arine Attains HITRUST Risk-Based, 2-year Certification HITRUST Risk-Based, 2-year (r2) Certification solidifies Arine's ...

Addressing Healthcare Disparities with Quality Improvement

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, Jun 24, 2024

In its 2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) ...

Case Study: How Medication Intelligence Helps Address Rural-Urban Health Disparities

Posted by Arine, Jun 06, 2024

The average life expectancy in the U.S. stands at 76.33 years, but this varies widely depending on which state you’re born ...

5 Ways to Reduce Healthcare Costs for Patients at High Risk of Poor Outcomes

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, Apr 23, 2024

In 2021, five percent of the U.S. population accounted for almost half of healthcare spending. These individuals tend to be ...

The Impact of Language Barriers on Health Equity

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, Mar 28, 2024

A Spanish-speaking patient is complaining of being “intoxicado”. The non-Spanish speaking paramedics translate it as being ...

Role of Deprescribing: Reducing Polypharmacy and Drug Interaction Risk

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, Feb 28, 2024

Imagine a scenario when a medication's long-term use is linked to serious adverse drug reactions or another case where there ...

Arine Accelerates Growth, Expands Board of Directors

Posted by Arine, Feb 13, 2024

Board additions to focus on further scale-up of Arine’s rapidly expanding health plan customer base SAN FRANCISCO, February ...

Strategies for Preventing Misprescribing in Healthcare

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, Jan 04, 2024

According to the World Health Organization, unsafe medication practices and medication errors are one of the main causes of ...

How Opioid Medication Management Can Reduce Cost of Care

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, Dec 11, 2023

Since 1999, over 760,000 people have died from drug overdoses—that’s one person every 16 minutes. Many of those drug ...

The Future of MTM: The Role of Technology and Personalized Medicine

Posted by Amy Mosher-Garvey, Nov 28, 2023

Medication therapy management (MTM) was established in 2006, to improve therapeutic outcomes and medication safety. Since ...

Addressing the Impact of Polypharmacy on Patient Outcomes

Posted by Arine, Nov 06, 2023

Medication therapy is among the most common therapies to treat medical conditions but it can lead to negative outcomes, ...

From Legacy Med. Management to Intelligent Medication Optimization

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, Oct 23, 2023

How a drug reacts in the body varies from person to person. Factors such as age, weight, and kidney function all have an ...

Tech-Enabled Ways to Improve CAHPS Ratings

Posted by Amy Mosher-Garvey, Oct 06, 2023

What’s one of the best ways to find out if a patient is getting quality care? Ask the patients themselves. Patient ...

CMS Health Equity Index

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, Sep 13, 2023

According to the American Heart Association, Black Americans experience a 45% higher rate of mortality from stroke and a 30% ...

Comprehensive Medication Management’s Impact on Behavioral Health

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, Sep 01, 2023

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that about 16% of adults take prescription medications ...

Moving the Needle for Population Health Management

Posted by Tenicia Talley, PharmD, MSCR, Aug 22, 2023

While population health management has been a priority for United States healthcare for a decade now, many populations still ...

Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) Case Study

Posted by Arine, Aug 18, 2023

Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) broke down barriers and improved the health of their Medicaid members, while also ...

What is Medication Reconciliation and Why is it Important?

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, Aug 03, 2023

Transitions of care, the movement of patients through different settings, are prone to miscommunications, loss of ...

How to Implement Lifestyle Interventions for High-Risk Patient Care

Posted by Ellen Berkley, Jul 11, 2023

Imagine a type of intervention that’s indicated for all high-risk patient care. It has no contraindications and doesn't ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare to Solve Medication Management

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, May 31, 2023

According to a 2019 study from the Journal of the American Medical Association, the U.S. healthcare system wastes an ...

7 Methods for Managing Medications for Patients with Chronic Conditions

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, Apr 10, 2023

Patients with chronic conditions have a higher risk of medication-related problems including medication non-adherence. ...

An Introduction to Medication Therapy Management

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, Jan 19, 2023

Adverse drug events (ADEs), one of the top causes of death in the United States, affect almost a quarter of patients in the ...

Moving Beyond Check-the-Box MTM

Posted by Tenicia Talley, PharmD, MSCR, Dec 14, 2022

Your care team has gone over your patient’s medication list with a fine-tooth comb: adherence, drug interactions, ...

Arine and Gemini Health Announce Collaboration to Optimize Medications

Posted by Arine, Oct 26, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Arine, a next-generation medication intelligence company, and Gemini Health LLC, ...

Overcoming Challenges of Medication Management for Mental Health

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, Sep 29, 2022

The mental health crisis did not happen overnight. Rates of depression among adolescents and young adults increased by over ...

How to Optimize Medication to Improve Health Equity and Outcomes

Posted by Tenicia Talley, PharmD, MSCR, Sep 14, 2022

Pharmaceutical advancements have played a major role in improving the United States’ health and life expectancy. But for ...

Improving Behavioral Health Outcomes with Medication Intelligence

Posted by Amy Mosher-Garvey, Sep 08, 2022

Join Caroline Carney, MD, MSc, FAMP, CPHQ and Amy Mosher-Garvey, MBA, LCSW as they share how Magellan Health and Arine ...

There’s No Silver Bullet to Disrupt the Pharmacy Value Chain

Posted by Arine, Aug 26, 2022

Yoona Kim, PharmD, PhD, co-founder and CEO of Arine, discusses some of the key takeaways from the launch of Mark Cuban's ...

Arine Secures $29 Million to Meet Demand for Medication Intelligence

Posted by Arine, Aug 17, 2022

Arine's latest funding follows significant growth in customer base and improved health and economic outcomes for high-risk ...

Addressing Health Inequities With RWE: Not Just Lip Service

Posted by Yoona Kim, PharmD, PhD, Aug 01, 2022

One of the most vexing problems in healthcare today is the persistence of health inequities that deprive minority ...

The Need to Go Beyond Medication Adherence in the Medicare Population

Posted by Arine, Jul 18, 2022

Read this AJMC article by Arine co-founder and CEO Yoona Kim, PharmD, PhD on why Medicare Advantage plans need to go beyond ...

Improving Disease Management with Comprehensive Medication Management

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, Jun 06, 2022

With more than half of adults diagnosed with at least one chronic condition and 86% of health care costs attributable to ...

Medication Optimization: The Missing Link in Value-Based Care

Posted by Terry Alice McInnis, MD, MPH,CP, May 06, 2022

Medication management programs have been a standard part of healthcare for over a decade now, and yet they have done little ...

The Staggering Cost of Medication-Related Problems

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, May 05, 2022

Medication-related problems (MRPs) are issues caused by prescription medications that can interfere with a patient’s health ...

Arine Collaborates with Amazon Web Services to Address Health Equity

Posted by Arine, Apr 28, 2022

Arine, an intelligent medication optimization company, today announced it has been selected for Amazon Web Services' (AWS) ...

VNS Health Quality Improvement Case Study

Posted by Arine, Apr 04, 2022

VNS Health partnered with Arine, improving their Star ratings to 4 and 5 Stars across all adherence measures.

Coming of Age for Comprehensive Medication Management Integration

Posted by Amy Mosher-Garvey, Apr 04, 2022

Learn more about how medication optimization is impacting cost, quality of care, and patient satisfaction.

Comprehensive Medication Management: Improve Cost and Health Outcomes

Posted by Sandy Bonfin, PharmD, BCPS, Mar 18, 2022

Medication therapy is part of 80% of all treatments, so it's no surprise that it represents a large percentage of healthcare ...

Medication Optimization: How AI Improves Medication Management

Posted by Todd Christiansen, Oct 28, 2021

Medication mismanagement costs the United States healthcare system one in every six dollars. In the arduous trek to ...

Arine Raises $11M Series A to Scale Medication Optimization Platform

Posted by Arine, Oct 26, 2021

Arine, the leading AI-driven platform that optimizes medication management, reduces costs, and improves outcomes for health ...

SCAN Group Makes Strategic Investment in Arine

Posted by Todd Christiansen, Oct 19, 2021

Healthcare non-profit says Arine’s AI-driven approach to optimizing medication use is key to improving health outcomes. LONG ...

VNSNY CHOICE & Arine Address Member Health with Tech-Enabled Approach

Posted by Todd Christiansen, Aug 12, 2021

VNSNY CHOICE Health Plans, the managed care affiliate of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, is partnering with Bay Area ...

Population Health Management 2.0: It's a Verb

Posted by Amy Mosher-Garvey, Jun 05, 2021

In 2015, 30+ healthcare leaders were interviewed for an article on how they defined Population Health. Though much has ...

The Role of the Pharmacist in Chronic Disease Management

Posted by Rutanshu Sha, May 24, 2021

Chronic diseases are defined by the CDC as “conditions lasting one year or longer that require ongoing medical attention or ...

Arine Partners with CA Right Meds Collaborative-USC School of Pharmacy

Posted by Arine, Apr 21, 2021

Arine and the California Right Meds Collaborative (CRMC), a pharmacist-provider program led by the University of Southern ...

Oklahoma Health Care Authority Expands Arine Solution Across the State

Posted by Arine, Oct 23, 2019

The Oklahoma Health Care Authority is expanding a pilot program statewide that works to improve the health of SoonerCare ...