Ohio's six-month freeze on new Medicaid home care and hospice providers is set to expire Nov. 14, raising concerns among disabled residents who face gaps when aides leave. South Dakota Voters Weigh ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Diane Omdahl is a Medicare expert who keeps her readers in the know. Over the last several years, prior authorization has become a ...
New regulations and new pressures on health plans could finally bring change to prior authorization. Here’s what you need to know to protect your patients’ rights, and your own. Prior authorizations ...
Checkpoints exist throughout the American health care system. They ensure people receive appropriate care and avoid preventable errors in treatment or diagnoses. While doctors and hospitals manage ...
Original Medicare rarely needs prior authorization, but nearly 99% of Medicare Advantage plans require it for expensive or specialized care. Starting in 2026, new CMS mandates require Medicare plans ...
Jaclyn Mayo has multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that damages the nervous system and can mess with coordination and balance. To get steadier on her feet, Mayo had been trying to lose weight: ...
Nearly all MA enrollees are subject to prior authorization — where providers have to receive an insurers’ approval before offering a service or medication — for some types of care, according to the ...
As healthcare stakeholders investigate ways to leverage health IT to mitigate clinician burden and improve patient safety, the next frontier for the digital health transformation could be streamlining ...
New Year’s Day, the day of new beginnings, is a day health care providers like me dread. It starts the annual deluge of requests to renew “prior authorizations” — a bureaucratic tactic that insurers ...