{"id":10488,"date":"2018-05-22T11:43:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10488"},"modified":"2018-05-22T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T15:43:07","slug":"medicare-prior-authorization-programs-have-saved-an-estimated-1-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10488","title":{"rendered":"Medicare prior authorization programs have saved an estimated $1.1 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">According to a Government Accountability Office, CMS should continue its prior authorization demonstration projects, currently on pause or scheduled to end this year, or risk \u201cmissed opportunities for achieving its stated goal of reducing costs and realizing program savings.\u201d The report found the handful of Medicare prior authorization programs have saved an estimated $1.1 billion to $1.9 billion through March of 2017. Read further findings click on attached link. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcaredive.com\/news\/cms-should-extend-prior-authorization-pilots-gao-says\/524075\/\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GAO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10072\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GAO-300x37.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GAO-300x37.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GAO.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Government Accountability Office, CMS should continue its prior authorization demonstration projects, currently on pause or scheduled to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10489,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10488\/revisions\/10489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}