{"id":3149,"date":"2024-02-02T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T11:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/new-federal-us-rules-to-curb-use-of-prior-approval-by-private-health-insurances\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T11:10:07","slug":"new-federal-us-rules-to-curb-use-of-prior-approval-by-private-health-insurances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/new-federal-us-rules-to-curb-use-of-prior-approval-by-private-health-insurances\/","title":{"rendered":"New federal US rules to curb use of prior approval by private health insurances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Providers working in federal programs will be required to expedite patients\u2019 prior authorizations for medications and\/or surgery<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2024\/01\/17\/cms-finalizes-rule-to-expand-access-to-health-information-and-improve-the-prior-authorization-process.html\">new set of rules from the Biden administration seeks<\/a> to rein in private health insurance companies\u2019 use of prior authorization \u2013 a byzantine practice that requires people to seek insurance company permission before obtaining medication or having a procedure.<\/p>\n<p>The cost-containment strategy often delays care and forces patients, or their doctors, to navigate opaque and labyrinthine appeals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/feb\/02\/new-federal-rule-insurance-authorization-surgery-medication\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providers working in federal programs will be required to expedite patients\u2019 prior authorizations for medications and\/or surgery A new set of rules from the Biden administration seeks to rein in private health insurance companies\u2019 use of prior authorization \u2013 a byzantine practice that requires people to seek insurance company permission before obtaining medication or having &#8230; <a title=\"New federal US rules to curb use of prior approval by private health insurances\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/new-federal-us-rules-to-curb-use-of-prior-approval-by-private-health-insurances\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New federal US rules to curb use of prior approval by private health insurances\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}