{"id":25065,"date":"2025-10-24T08:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25065"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:21:32","slug":"aha-pushes-cms-to-delay-medicare-prior-authorization-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25065","title":{"rendered":"AHA pushes CMS to delay Medicare prior authorization pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Elizabeth Casolo for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The American Hospital Association is urging CMS to delay its Medicare prior authorization pilot \u2014 the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction initiative \u2014 by at least six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis timeframe is impractical for providers and jeopardizes the administration\u2019s goal of easing provider administrative burden associated with prior authorization,\u201d the organization said in an Oct. 23 letter to CMS. The model is currently slated to launch in Arizona, Washington, New Jersey, Texas, Ohio and Oklahoma Jan. 1, 2026.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/aha-pushes-cms-to-delay-medicare-prior-authorization-pilot\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/aha-pushes-cms-to-delay-medicare-prior-authorization-pilot\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"wp-image-9838\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Elizabeth Casolo for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The American Hospital Association is urging CMS to delay its Medicare prior authorization<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,846],"tags":[366,80,238,61,1945],"class_list":["post-25065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-prior-authorization","tag-aha","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-prior-authorization-pilot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25065","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=25065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25067,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25065\/revisions\/25067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}