Improving Seniors' Access to Medicare Advantage Care
New rules aim to provide seniors with Medicare Advantage plans faster access to necessary medical services. They introduce an electronic authorization system, increase process transparency, and shorten waiting times for treatment decisions.
Key points
Implementation of an electronic prior authorization system for medical services to speed up processes.
Increased transparency: Medicare Advantage plans must publish data on approved and denied authorization requests.
Reduced waiting times for authorization decisions, including the possibility of 24-hour decisions for urgent cases.
Streamlined authorization processes for doctors and medical providers, including access to decision criteria.
Introduced
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