In mid-January, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule designed to address some of the widespread complaints about the difficulties caused by prior authorization. In this conversation, Andrea Preisler, AHA senior associate director of administrative simplification policy, Jennifer Cameron, executive director of patient access at Children's National Health System, and David Jacobson, M.D., division chief of blood and marrow transplantation at Children's National Hospital, discuss what the new prior authorization rule means for ensuring clinicians can do what they do best: take care of their patients. LISTEN NOW

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