{"id":23999,"date":"2025-02-13T08:26:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T13:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23999"},"modified":"2025-02-13T08:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T13:26:02","slug":"montana-looks-to-regulate-prior-authorization-as-patients-providers-decry-obstacles-to-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23999","title":{"rendered":"Montana Looks To Regulate Prior Authorization as Patients, Providers Decry Obstacles to Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By Mike Dennison for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HELENA, Mont. \u2014 When Lou and Lindsay Volpe\u2019s son was diagnosed with a chronic bowel disease at age 11, their health insurer required constant preapproval of drugs and treatments \u2014 a process the Volpes say often delayed critical care for their son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou subscribe to your insurance policy, you pay into that for years and years and years with the hope that, if you need this service, it will be there for you,\u201d Lou Volpe said. \u201cAnd finally, when you knock on the door and say, \u2018Hey guys, we need some help,\u2019 they just start backpedaling.\u201d Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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