Contents tagged with prior authorization

• AAFP leaders advocate for improved access to primary care and more this month on Capitol Hill

  Tags: AAFP Federal Advocacy Team, primary care access, prior authorization, administrative burden

  Thursday, October 20, 2022 8:55:00 AM

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  By AAFP’s Federal Advocacy Team

  On October 12, AAFP’s president, president-elect, and board chair traveled to Washington D.C., to meet with members of Congress and their staff to advocate for key AAFP legislative priorities. Here’s what they discussed:

  Stop Medicare payment cuts

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• Providers must obtain palivizumab vaccine for FFS patients through VDP

  Tags: fee-for-service, prior authorization, vaccination, vaccine, vendor, palivizumab

  Wednesday, October 2, 2013 2:03:00 PM

  Providers must obtain palivizumab vaccine for FFS patients through VDP

  posted 10.03.13

  Providers prescribing palivizumab to fee-for-service Medicaid patients must now get the vaccine through the … more

• Prior Authorization Committees seeking members

  Tags: prior authorization, committee, department of insurance, 83rd, legislature

  Wednesday, October 2, 2013 10:24:56 AM

  Prior Authorization Committees seeking members

  posted 10.03.13

  The Texas Department of Insurance is currently recruiting members for two significant Prior Authorization Committees created by the 8 … more

• Family medicine under the dome in the 83rd Texas Legislature

  Tags: legislature, graduate medical education, workforce, advocacy, health and human services, texas higher education coordinating board, physician education loan repayment program, women's health, texas women's healthcare coalition, department of state health services, mental health, prior authorization, scope of practice, medicaid, affordable care act

  Sunday, August 18, 2013 2:17:00 PM

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  By Jonathan Nelson

  After all the heated controversy and partisan polemics that characterized this summer’s special sessions of the 83rd Texas Legislature, it’s difficult to … more

• CAPITOL UPDATE: Lege strengthens physician workforce, improves women’s health care, and reduces administrative hassles for physicians

  Tags: capitol update, legislative update, legislature, 83rd, graduate medical education, residency, workforce, physician education loan repayment program, texas higher education coordinating board, women's health, texas women's healthcare coalition, mental health, prior authorization, medicaid, affordable care act, physician of the day, sulaiman, freeman, voss, sepdham, mangalick, edwards, estment, fiesinger, sadoun, redman, kadir

  Monday, June 10, 2013 11:16:00 AM

  Capitol Update: Lege strengthens physician workforce, improves women’s health care, and reduces administrative hassles for physicians

  posted 06.11.13

  The 83rd Texas Legislature finished the … more

• Physicians must obtain prior authorization for power mobility devices starting Sept. 1

  Tags: demonstration, centers for medicare and medicaid services, prior authorization, resources, power mobility device, prescription

  Tuesday, August 21, 2012 9:56:10 AM

  Physicians must obtain prior authorization for power mobility devices starting Sept. 1

  posted 08.21.12

  Beginning Sept. 1, 2012, Texas physicians must receive prior authorization for scooters and … more

• CMS announces measures to target Medicare fraud and abuse

  Tags: recovery audit contractor, centers for medicare and medicaid services, demonstration, power mobility device, medicare, prior authorization

  Thursday, March 29, 2012 3:07:00 PM

  CMS announces measures to target Medicare fraud and abuse

  New demonstrations to test pre-payment RAC review and prior authorization of power mobility devices

  By Kate Alfano

  The Centers for … more