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- Congress urged to simplify Medicare Advantage prior authorization
CAP members are calling for passage of the "Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act" (S 1816, HR 3514) to streamline prior authorization processes in Medicare Advantage insurance plans.
It's a bipartisan bill: There’s broad consensus across political parties that enacting these prior authorization reforms into law would increase transparency, require real-time decisions for routine services, and expand patient protections.
- The bill has 53 cosponsors in the Senate and 152 cosponsors in the House.
- It's backed by over 150 organizations, including the CAP.
Action alert: Pathologists can easily contact their lawmakers and ask them to support the bill, too.