📋 Insurers Vow to Take Steps to Reform Prior Authorization (AARP Article)

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FROM THE ARTICLE.

Insurers Pledge to Fix Controversial Pre-Authorization Process.

Major companies that oversee health plans, including ➡️[*** Medicare Advantage plans, said they will reform a common practice that can result in delayed care and denied services.

By Tony Pugh, AARP.

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Published June 24, 2025.

A group of major health insurers, including those that provide private Medicare and Medicaid managed care plans, have pledged to implement six new voluntary changes designed to streamline, standardize and reduce the burden of the “prior authorization” process, where health plans must approve certain medical services before they are performed.​ ​

The commitments of nearly 50 leading health insurers, announced June 23, are expected to help reduce administrative delays and simplify care for some 257 million individuals — about 75 percent of Americans with health coverage, said Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), during a press briefing. Among them are nearly 35 million older Americans enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans and an estimated 75 percent of Medicaid recipients who are covered through private managed care organizations.

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