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Health care leaders collaborate to streamline prior authorization

New industry effort will help simplify prior authorization processes for patients medical treatments and improve communications for more efficient patient care.

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#Best of 2017 Prior Authorization
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Actions taken to quantify, cut the burdens of prior authorization

Processing prior-authorization requests is among a medical practice’s top administrative burdens, but steps are being taken to reduce the problem.

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Time to adopt view of opioid-use disorder as chronic disease

Stigmatization and payers’ use of prior authorization can make it harder to deliver evidence-based treatment to the patients who need it.

Behavioral Health
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March 9, 2017: National Advocacy Update

Stronger network-adequacy & fewer prior-auth demands, flexibility in EHR adoption and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

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Pains of prior authorization create pressure for reform

Payer and physician organizations gather at HIMSS 2017 to discuss ways to address the burdens of prior authorization.

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Feb. 23, 2017: State Advocacy Update

Prior authorization for treatment of substance use disorders, Massachusetts gun safety discussions and more in AMA's latest state and local advocacy efforts.

Advocacy Update
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Survey quantifies time burdens of prior authorization

New details on the time physicians and staff pour into completing prior-authorization requests that delay and disrupt patient care.

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21 principles to reform prior-authorization requirements

The AMA and other health care associations offer a comprehensive plan to simplify the protocols that gobble up time and can disrupt patient care.

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Health care coalition calls for prior authorization reform

The Health Care Coalition releases new principles to improve timely access to care and reduce administrative burdens

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