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Whether you're filling a prescription or scheduling a procedure, chances are you've been asked whether you have prior authorization. By learning to navigate prior authorization and what steps to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In June of this year, CMS announced that it would be launching the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model, ...

WASHINGTON -- Physician groups are hoping Medicare will change its mind about implementing new prior authorization requirements for two outpatient spinal procedures beginning July 1. In a final rule ...

DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A recent national poll commissioned by Let My Doctors Decide (LMDD) found that a majority of health care consumers oppose prior authorization policies imposed by health ...

Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and John Thune (R-S.D.) have done a great service to their constituents and to their nation by introducing the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act. This is the ...

Many physicians and practices say prior authorization is a major administrative burden and have urged lawmakers to institute reforms to the process for commercial and public payers. Nearly 97% of ...

UnitedHealth has rescinded a plan to require prior authorization for colonoscopies and other endoscopic procedures, following backlash from physician groups. UnitedHealth, which operates the biggest ...

Many health systems and patients have struggled with prior authorization procedures. Prior authorization practices are staying in the spotlight. Health systems are looking for payers to do more to ...

Several health insurers are extending prior authorizations for elective services that have been canceled or deferred because of COVID-19. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota shared with Becker’s ...

The manual prior authorization process stands as a notorious drain on both time and money. For ASCs, this aspect of the revenue cycle curtails efficiency but also strains staff resources, jeopardizing ...