CMS has unveiled the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction model, a new Innovation Center initiative that will add prior authorization for some traditional fee-for-service Medicare services. Under the model, CMS will partner with companies specializing in AI and machine learning to test ways to provide an improved and expedited prior authorization process for certain Medicare services. Companies hired to manage the initiative will be paid based on how much money they save the federal government by stopping payment for unnecessary or non-covered items services.
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Source: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/cms-to-add-prior-authorization-for-traditional-medicare-services/