{"id":18710,"date":"2021-08-24T09:27:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18710"},"modified":"2021-08-24T09:27:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T13:27:12","slug":"cms-urges-medicare-advantage-plans-to-relax-some-prior-authorization-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18710","title":{"rendered":"CMS urges Medicare Advantage plans to relax some prior authorization requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Alia Paavola for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>CMS is encouraging all Medicare Advantage organizations and Medicare-Medicaid plans to waive or relax certain prior authorization requirements amid the COVID-19 surge. Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/cms-urges-medicare-advantage-plans-to-relax-some-prior-authorization-requirements.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CMS-logo-2-e1524659904197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10228\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CMS-logo-2-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/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>(By\u00a0Alia Paavola for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) CMS is encouraging all Medicare Advantage organizations and Medicare-Medicaid plans to waive or relax<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-medicaid","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18710","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=18710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18713,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18710\/revisions\/18713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}