{"id":20990,"date":"2023-03-14T08:18:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T12:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20990"},"modified":"2023-03-14T08:18:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T12:18:21","slug":"feds-move-to-rein-in-prior-authorization-a-system-that-harms-and-frustrates-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20990","title":{"rendered":"Feds Move to Rein In Prior Authorization, a System That Harms and Frustrates Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Lauren Sausser for Kaiser Health News on March 13, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Paula Chestnut needed hip replacement surgery last year, a pre-operative X-ray found irregularities in her chest. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/prior-authorization-patient-frustration-federal-regulations\/\">Here..<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/prior-authorization-patient-frustration-federal-regulations\/\">.<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lauren Sausser for Kaiser Health News on March 13, 2023 When Paula Chestnut needed hip replacement surgery last year,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,200,19],"tags":[166,94],"class_list":["post-20990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-insurance","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","tag-health-insurance","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20990","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20991,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20990\/revisions\/20991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}