Prior authorization denials up big in Medicare Advantage

By Tanya Albert Henry Contributing News Writer for AMA on September 23, 2024

What’s the news: Medicare Advantage enrollees and their physicians in 2022 saw a larger share of their prior authorization requests denied when compared with previous years, according to a recently released KFF analysis of data that Medicare Advantage insurers submitted to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) between 2019 and 2022. Here…

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