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 Jocelyn Keegan, Point-of-Care Partners Payer Practice Lead and Da Vinci Program Manager As 2018 draws to a close, the future is bright for the Da Vinci Project. Da Vinci …
By Jocelyn Keegan, Payer Practice Lead Recently, I had the opportunity to attend and speak at the annual meeting of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology …
By Jocelyn Keegan, Senior Consultant Millions of patients require expensive specialty medications. Before these prescriptions are filled, patients undergo the complex paper-phone-fax processes for enrollment using a specialty pharmacy or …
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 …
By Jocelyn Keegan Prior authorization (PA) for medications, devices and therapies is viewed as a valuable utilization management tool by payers but a long-standing pain point for providers and pharmacists. …