CMS Administrator Seema Verma has tasked her Patients Over Paperwork team with exploring what CMS can do to improve Prior Authorization (PA) burdens as part of the eighth topic addressed under the initiative. In addition, stakeholders like ISASS and other medical specialty societies have submitted input in writing on the issue. ISASS has been a...
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma has tasked her Patients Over Paperwork team with exploring what CMS can do to improve Prior Authorization (PA) burdens as part of the eighth topic addressed under the initiative. They are conducting many listening sessions with various stakeholders over the next few weeks, including a wide...
On June 17, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would improve patients’ access to necessary medications by updating the prior authorization process for Medicare Part D, the program that provides coverage for prescription drugs that beneficiaries pick up at a pharmacy counter. The prior authorization process requires that...