Andrea Preisler, AHA’s senior associate director of administrative simplification policy, explains why the recent final rule requiring Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and federally facilitated Marketplace plans to streamline their prior authorization processes should help reduce the burden on hospitals and clinicians and speed needed care for patients. READ MORE 

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Americans experience healthcare affordability in different ways. Often, affordability is first considered in terms of health insurance premiums that fit within…
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Medicare Advantage now covers more than half of eligible Medicare beneficiaries, making its impact on hospitals, health systems and patients impossible to…
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The AHA provided comments June 15 to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on its proposed rule establishing electronic standards for drug prior…
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The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission June 15 released its June report to Congress that estimated the association between Medicare Advantage enrollment and…
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