{"id":24769,"date":"2025-08-12T08:26:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24769"},"modified":"2025-08-12T08:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:26:54","slug":"lawmakers-question-adding-prior-authorization-for-traditional-medicare-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24769","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers question adding prior authorization for traditional Medicare services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Andrew Cass for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A group of House Democrats is seeking answers from CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, regarding a new initiative that will add prior authorization for some traditional fee-for-service Medicare services.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/lawmakers-question-adding-prior-authorization-for-traditional-medicare-services\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/lawmakers-question-adding-prior-authorization-for-traditional-medicare-services\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"96\" class=\"wp-image-15015\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized.jpg 583w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Andrew Cass for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A group of House Democrats is seeking answers from CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10,6,846],"tags":[80,61,1717,442],"class_list":["post-24769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general","category-prior-authorization","tag-cms","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-legislation","tag-prior-authorization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24769","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=24769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24770,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24769\/revisions\/24770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}