MedPage Today January 19, 2021
— Major insurers excluded, rule rushed out too fast, they say
WASHINGTON — The reviews are in on a final rule on prior authorization issued Friday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — and they’re not good.
“Today’s final rule from CMS is largely a series of empty promises,” said Matt Eyles, president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the lobbying group for health insurers, Friday in a statement. “This shabbily and hastily constructed rule puts a plane in the air before the wings are bolted on by requiring health insurance providers to build these technologies with incomplete and untested instruction manuals. And, despite rushing the rule, this administration requires insurance providers to build expensive...