Building on its pledge with major health plans last year to streamline prior authorizations, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services disclosed that it is adding electronic prior authorization to the Health Tech Ecosystem. “The initial landmark pledge effort brought the nation’s major health plans to the table,” Mehmet Oz, MD, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said in a blog post Tuesday. “This new initiative brings everyone else. Health systems, hospitals, physician practices, electronic health record vendors and digital health developers are now joining payers as a unified coalition aligned around a single mission: making electronic prior authorization work end-to-end, on time, for every patient.”
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