Healthcare DIVE June 3, 2019
Dive Brief:
- HHS is looking for ways electronic prior authorization can be improved, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT head Don Rucker said Monday at Academy Health’s annual research conference in Washington, D.C.
- Rucker, who has helmed ONC for the past two years, lambasted the current state of prior authorization, the requirement that providers obtain approval from a patient’s insurance before prescribing medication or therapy, calling it a “non-computerized kabuki of payment” that “needs to get rethought.”
- ONC’s goal is to reintegrate financial, clinical and quality data within health IT transactions, Rucker said. “Prior auth may be the battlefield to do that.”
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