AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 9: The Impact of AI and Prior Authorizations on Home Health and Hospice
The CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Rules
Both the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and dozens of the nation’s largest insurance companies have revealed upcoming changes to their prior authorization processes. These changes aim to reduce the prevalence...more
Health plan members of AHIP and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association made news earlier this week when they announced a series of steps that a broad swath of health insurers will take to improve the prior authorization...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for January 2024. We discuss several US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency actions, including the new Innovation in...more
When stakeholders think about prior authorization in the Medicare program, they usually focus on its use in Medicare Advantage (MA), and not how it is used in traditional Medicare. In fact, a few weeks ago, the Centers for...more
On May 28, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule to establish a prior authorization process for certain durable medical equipment,...more