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Mashup Score: 3Action Alerts - American College of Cardiology - 3 year(s) ago
With your help, ACC Advocacy actively works with Congress, state legislators, and other key decision makers to transform cardiovascular care and improve heart health. However, we need everyone’s voice at the table to make a difference for patients and health care professionals. The ACC offers a number of ways for its members to get involved in advocating for health policies that…
Source: American College of CardiologyCategories: Cardiology News and Journals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 3Fixing Medicare pay system once and for all tops advocacy agenda - 3 year(s) ago
Reforming Medicare physician payment, overhauling prior authorization and maintaining telehealth expansion are AMA advocacy goals for 2022.
Source: American Medical AssociationCategories: General Medicine Journals and Societies, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
From fixing #PriorAuth to expanding #telehealth access, delve into the details of AMA's advocacy goals for this year. https://t.co/SxA1HN3OyK
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Mashup Score: 3
AMA urges employers to grill health plans on the impact of prior authorization on patient care.
Source: American Medical AssociationCategories: General Medicine Journals and Societies, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
“Now is the time for employers to demand transparency from health plans on the growing impact of #PriorAuth programs on the health of their workforce." AMA president, @GeraldHarmonMD, on how prior authorization creates issues for employers & patients. https://t.co/AOjLuPkSaE
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Mashup Score: 35Estimating the Practice-Level and National Cost Burden of Treatment-Related Prior Authorization for Academic Radiation Oncology Practices - 3 year(s) ago
PURPOSE: Prior authorization (PA) imposes significant time burdens on radiation oncology practices, but its financial impact has not been characterized. We used time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to assess the cost burden of treatment-related PA events at an academic radiation oncology practice. We then estimated annual costs for an academic practice and academic practices nationally….
Source: JCO Oncology PracticeCategories: Latest Headlines, Oncologists1Tweet-
🤔Is #priorAuthorization an effective method for controlling costs and/or promoting quality in #radonc? NO Time costs for US academic depts: $40.1 MILLION of which 86% ($34.6 MILLION) were eventually approved #priorauth #fixPriorAuth https://t.co/HISs0zcGVB https://t.co/RlVV4fEUBe
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Mashup Score: 9Why prior authorization is bad for patients and bad for business - 3 year(s) ago
Prior authorization delays care that leads to negative clinical outcomes for patients that can interfere with the responsibilities of their jobs.
Source: American Medical AssociationCategories: General Medicine Journals and Societies, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
#PriorAuth doesn't only delay patient care — it can also affect career well-being. “Now is the time for employers to demand transparency from health plans on the growing impact of prior-authorization programs on the health of their workforce." https://t.co/csBZhUZUaq
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Mashup Score: 4
AMA urges employers to grill health plans on the impact of prior authorization on patient care.
Source: American Medical AssociationCategories: General Medicine Journals and Societies, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
“Now is the time for employers to demand transparency from health plans on the growing impact of #PriorAuth programs on the health of their workforce." AMA president, @GeraldHarmonMD, on how prior authorization creates issues for employers & patients. https://t.co/ypX7Ii6CKi
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Mashup Score: 7Protect Patients from Delays to Care - 3 year(s) ago
Urge your lawmakers to support the Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act
Source: asco.quorum.usCategories: Hem/Onc News and Journals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
It is time for #Congress to protect patients from delays in care due to insurers’ burdensome prior authorization practices. Urge your lawmakers to address #priorauth by supporting the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act! https://t.co/XQIwWgR0fy @regrelief #ASCOAdvocacy
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Mashup Score: 0Wolters Kluwer Health - 3 year(s) ago
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Source: lww.comCategories: Hem/Oncs, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
🙏🏾 @LolaButcher In this issue of @NeurologyToday I advocate for peds pts re: insurance #PriorAuth. @sloan_kettering #MSKKids a team (PharmD @JenThackray, APPs, admins and occas physician) helps obtain approval for life-saving treatments. @AANMember. https://t.co/4IZefClihB https://t.co/jT6L5FGhbo
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Mashup Score: 4Did Prior Authorization Refusals Lead to This Patient's Death? - 4 year(s) ago
Physicians are being forced to delay or deny patient treatments while fighting for authorization from insurers. This delay could endanger patients.
Source: MedscapeCategories: General Medicine Journals and Societies, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
#PriorAuth can severely endanger patients' health. Insurance companies must ensure that profit doesn't come at the cost of patient care. https://t.co/gR0L6V5iQ1
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Mashup Score: 0Aaron L. Schwartz, MD @A_Schwa @PennDGIMProud @PennMEHP - 4 year(s) ago
Aaron L. Schwartz, MD, Ph.D., Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania speaks about Me
Source: www.oncologytube.comCategories: Hem/Onc News and Journals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Measuring the Scope of Prior Authorization Policies Aaron L. Schwartz, MD @A_Schwa @PennDGIMProud @PennMEHP #PriorAuth #Policies #Cancer #Research https://t.co/rx7MqrYUNu https://t.co/U6Zglnu0Ph
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Urge #Congress to adopt #HR3173 & #S3018. This bill will protect #MedicareAdvantage patients from time consuming #PriorAuth practices & remove barriers to timely access of medically necessary care. https://t.co/O5QsiwwnVP #FixPriorAuth #ACCAdvocacy https://t.co/VQ69tnP5Cn