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Use of Prior Authorization Up in Medicare Advantage Plans, Senate Report Finds
Medicare Advantage plans have increased their use of prior authorization and appear to be targeting certain types of care -- ...
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UnitedHealth, CVS and Humana increasingly deploy AI and deny post-acute care claims, Senate report finds
The country’s three largest Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers obstruct seniors’ ability to receive post-acute care, a scathing ...
Skilled Nursing News2d
U.S. Senate Subcommittee Raises Alarm Over Medicare Advantage’s Denial of Post-Acute Care
Medicare Advantage’s prior authorization process has resulted in higher denial rates among three of the largest health ...
How UnitedHealthcare is transforming the prior authorization process for patients and providers
UnitedHealthcare is reducing prior authorization requirements with new initiatives to ease administrative tasks and other ...
Modern Healthcare2d
Senate report alleges MA insurers abuse prior authorization
Humana, CVS Health and UnitedHealth Group say a Senate panel is mischaracterizing spikes in prior authorization requests and ...
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Senate report scrutinizes Medicare Advantage prior authorization denials for post-acute care services
A report released Oct. 17 by the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s investigative subcommittee scrutinizes some of the ...
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Senate report hits top 3 Medicare Advantage insurers over ‘refusal’ of skilled nursing, other coverage
A Senate report published Thursday blasts the nation’s three largest Medicare Advantage insurers for increasingly limiting access to post-acute care and forcing vulnerable patients into “impossible ...
‘Absolutely outrageous’ CT senator blasts Medicare Advantage insurers for denying care
Conn., blasted Medicare Advantage providers at a press conference in Hartford on Thursday for denying coverage for certain ...
Medicare prior authorization affecting plastic and reconstructive surgery didn't have hoped-for effect
The Medicare policy change added something that's common in private insurance and Medicare Advantage, but rare in traditional ...
dermatologyadvisor1d
Prior Authorization in Oncology: Burdens and Barriers to Care
Research suggests that prior authorization has negative effects on patients with cancer and oncology providers.
Medpage Today on MSN2dOpinion
Doctors, Not AI, Should Authorize Treatments
Last month, California passed a bill ensuring that doctors, not artificial intelligence (AI), have the final say on patients' ...
TimesDaily3dOpinion
Prior authorization must be reformed
As a neurologist, I have the privilege of helping patients manage complex diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS) — a condition ...