The United Healthcare Signature is displayed on July 19, 2023 at an office building in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Health schemes under Major US Insurance said that on Monday they have agreed to speed and reduce the authorities voluntarily – a procedure that is often a major pain point for patients and providers when taking care and care.
The former authority receives the providers from the patient’s insurance company before executing specific services or treatments. The insurers say that the procedure ensures that patients receive medical carefully and allow them to control the cost. But patients and providers have slammed former authorities in some cases, delaying or refusal in some cases and taking care of the physician burnout.
Dozens of schemes under large insurers CVS Health, Solidarity, Signa, Humana, Height health And Blue Cross Blue Shield has committed to a series of tasks that are aimed at taking care of patients more quickly and reducing administrative burden on providers, according to a business group representing health plans, to reduce administrative burden on providers.
The insurers will implement changes in markets including commercial coverage and some medicare and medicine schemes. The group said Twixes would benefit 257 million Americans.
The step comes months after the US Health Insurance Industry causes a month after the United Healthcare’s top executive, Brian Thompson, after facing a edge of public backlash. This makes the works that many companies have already done to simplify their former authority processes.
The release stated that the efforts are being set up a general standard to present the Electronic Pre -Authority requests until the beginning of 2027. Till then, at least 80% of the electronic pre -authority approval with all the necessary clinical documents will be answered in real time.
It aims to streamlin the process and reduce the charge of doctors and hospitals, many of which Still present the request manually Electronically on paper.
Individual plans will reduce the types of claims under pre -authority requests by 2026.
“We are ready to cooperate with the payments to ensure these efforts,” said Sean Martin, CEO of the American Academy of Family Physicians in the release.
