{"id":9329,"date":"2018-01-21T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9329"},"modified":"2018-01-19T11:48:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T16:48:28","slug":"teaming-up-to-try-to-improve-u-s-health-plans-prior-authorization-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9329","title":{"rendered":"Teaming up to try to improve U.S. health plans&#8217; prior authorization procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;\">America&#8217;s Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association have joined with the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, the American Pharmacists Association and the Medical Group Management Associations, in effort to try to improve U.S. health plans\u2019 prior authorization procedures. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2018\/01\/19\/insurer-groups-join-effort-to-ease-prior-authoriza?ref=rss&amp;kw=Insurer%20groups%20join%20effort%20to%20ease%20prior%20authorization%20nightmares&amp;et=editorial&amp;bu=BenefitsPRO&amp;cn=20180119&amp;src=EMC-Email_editorial&amp;pt=Health%20Care%20Reform%20Watch\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-symbol-medicare-doctor-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7801\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-symbol-medicare-doctor--300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-symbol-medicare-doctor--300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-symbol-medicare-doctor-.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association have joined with the American Hospital Association, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329","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=9329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9331,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329\/revisions\/9331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}