By Jocelyn Keegan, Payer Practice Lead, and Ken Kleinberg, Innovative Technologies Practice Lead The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced a proposed rule that would require use …
By Ken Kleinberg, Practice Lead, Innovative Technologies CAQH’s (Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare) recently released their new Phase V CORE Operating Rules for prior authorization (PA) that improve on specificity …
by Tony Schueth, CEO & Managing Partner A growing number of medications require prior authorization (PA) before they can be dispensed. This is a concern among providers, who are very …
By Tony Schueth, CEO and Managing Partner The world of health IT was buzzing this week in the wake of a massive rule drop by the Office of the National …
By Michael Solomon, Ph.D., MBA This is the second of a three-part series on AI applications to support prescription drug prescribing and therapy Amidst the uncertainty of healthcare policy and …
By Tony Schueth, CEO and Managing Partner Changes are coming to electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) under Medicare Part D, as part of sweeping new legislation concerning the opioid epidemic that was …
By Keith Fisher, R.Ph. Co-lead of the Regulatory Resource Center It’s been a busy legislative spring in the world of electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) at both the federal and state levels. …
By Jocelyn Keegan, Senior Consultant With recent legislative changes and maturity in the industry, pharmacists will soon be enabled to electronically initiate and handle pre-approval—or prior authorization (PA) — directly …
Prior authorization (PA) for medications, devices and services is viewed as a valuable utilization management tool by payers but is a long-standing pain point for providers, pharmacists and the pharmaceutical …
By Michael Burger Recently a multi-stakeholder consortium led by the American Medical Association (AMA) published a white paper entitled “Prior Authorization and Utilization Management Reform Principles.” This paper identifies 21 …