Strategic collaboration pairs more than 25 years of industry consensus-building with artificial intelligence to make financial responsibility clearer and healthcare administration simpler.
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Health Industry Collaboration Effort, Inc. (HICE), a nonprofit organization that has brought health plans and provider organizations together since 1998, and Gabeo.ai, a Palo Alto healthcare artificial intelligence company, today announced a strategic collaboration with a shared goal: helping the industry turn complex contractual responsibilities into clear, consistent understanding.
Behind every healthcare risk agreement is a commitment to the people it serves. Keeping that commitment requires health plans, medical groups, hospitals and management services organizations to agree on exactly how responsibility is shared. Division of Financial Responsibility (DOFR) arrangements and risk contracts define those obligations, including which organization is financially responsible for which services.
When responsibilities are unclear, health plans and providers can spend valuable time and resources resolving uncertainty and payment disputes. That friction can strain working relationships and divert resources from activities that support patient care. Greater clarity can help strengthen collaboration between the organizations financing and delivering care.
For more than two decades, HICE has convened health plans, providers and other stakeholders to develop educational resources and practical approaches that simplify and standardize healthcare administration. Gabeo applies artificial intelligence to healthcare agreements, claims and financial responsibility. Together, the organizations will explore how technology can make complex agreements easier to understand and put into practice, with the aim of advancing transparency around DOFRs and risk contracts, supporting HICE's long-standing work to standardize healthcare administration and strengthening the shared understanding that delegated risk and value-based care depend on.
"HICE was founded on the belief that healthcare administration improves when health plans, providers and other stakeholders work together to create shared understanding," said Mike Myers, Chief Executive Officer of HICE. "This collaboration builds on that mission by exploring how artificial intelligence can make complex financial responsibilities clearer and easier to put into practice. By combining HICE's consensus-driven approach with Gabeo's technology, we aim to reduce administrative burden, strengthen collaboration and help industry organizations focus more of their resources on patient care."
"Healthcare works better when everyone delivering and financing care knows exactly who is responsible for what," said Diego Rafael, MD, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gabeo.ai. "HICE has spent decades bringing this industry together around shared standards. We bring AI and a commitment to making complex agreements clear. Together, we see a real opportunity to reduce administrative friction so healthcare organizations can put more of their attention, and more of every dollar, toward the people they serve."
Additional details will be shared as the collaboration progresses.
Gabeo.ai will be at the California Association of Health Plans (CAHP) Annual Conference, October 19 to 21, 2026, in Palm Desert, California (Booth #204), meeting with health plans, MSOs and risk-bearing organizations about the growing need for transparency in delegated risk arrangements and the role technology can play in supporting it.
About HICE
Health Industry Collaboration Effort, Inc. (HICE) is a California nonprofit organization founded in 1998. HICE brings together health plans, provider organizations and other healthcare stakeholders to develop educational resources and best-practice materials that streamline, simplify and standardize healthcare administration. Learn more at www.iceforhealth.org.
About Gabeo.ai
Gabeo.ai is a healthcare artificial intelligence company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, focused on contract intelligence, financial responsibility and payment integrity. Gabeo helps health plans, MSOs, IPAs and provider organizations understand complex healthcare agreements, including DOFRs and risk contracts, and identify discrepancies between contractual responsibility and payment activity. Its mission is to turn complex agreements into clear accountability so more resources reach patient care. Learn more at www.gabeo.ai.
Media Contacts
Gabeo.ai: Michael Riley, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, [email protected], (215) 203-4542, https://www.gabeo.ai
HICE: Mike Myers, CEO, [email protected], 661-839-2847
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