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What doctor's wish patients knew about prior authorization
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What Doctors Wish Patients Knew: Prior authorization with Jack Resneck Jr., MD

AMA President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, shares how prior authorization creates time-consuming burdens, making it difficult for patients to receive the care they need.

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Prior Authorization
What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™
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Oct. 28, 2022: Advocacy Update spotlight on webinar for AMA grassroots updates

Register for next week’s webinar: AMA grassroots update on Medicare and prior authorization in the latest Advocacy Update spotlight.

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Feds shouldn’t reap rewards for illegal prior-auth restrictions

Imposing financial penalties for hep C drugs dispensed when Virginia’s prior-authorization rules violated federal law contradicts Medicaid’s goal.

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Judicial Advocacy
Fighting for Physicians
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Why the end could be near for prior-authorization faxes

Payer prior-authorization processes delay care and amplify patient anxiety and physician frustration. Atlantic Health’s automated system may fix that.

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Focus turns to Senate action to cut physicians’ prior auth strain

It’s time to call on your senators to help our older adult patients avoid the care delays posed by prior authorization in Medicare Advantage plans.

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House voice vote sets U.S. on path to fix prior authorization

AMA-supported, massively popular bill offers relief from prior authorization headaches to 28 million-plus patients in Medicare Advantage. Learn more.

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Fighting for Physicians
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AMA urges Senate to join campaign reforming prior authorization

House committees—Ways and Means as well as Energy and Commerce—overwhelmingly endorsed the bill, and it passed the House in rare show of bipartisan support.

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Gerald Harmon, MD, shares a personal prior auth story

In this episode of Moving Medicine, AMA Immediate Past President, Gerald E. Harmon, MD, shares his frustration handling his mother's prior authorization as well as some strategies to navigate prior auth.

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Aug. 5, 2022: National Advocacy Update

Big steps for bill to streamline prior authorization in Medicare Advantage and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

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