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Prior Authorization: Two Words We Love to Hate

Integra X Files

Prior authorization has been popular with the insurance industry because it works. This is known as the sentinel effect, and in the initial stages, providers accommodated the process without much complaint. The health insurance industry didn’t have many other tools to suppress demand, so it went with the sentinel effect by default.

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Express Scripts on the Road to Damascus?

Ramblings of a pharmacist

Separately, I don’t believe that 90-day supplies actually drive true adherence or clinical improvement - they just move the process measure of PDC. And downstream health effects of PBM coverage decisions don’t even enter into the spreadsheet - PBMs are about drug cost, and drug cost alone. They do… to a point.

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Budget expectation: Bring GST rate on APIs at par with the formulations

Express Pharma

Due to the multiplicity of regulatory processes and multiple regulators, undertaking operations become complex and time consuming. IRDAI has included the health insurance coverage for 12 such modern treatment methods under Chapter V of the Guidelines on “Standardisation of exclusions in health insurance contracts”.

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Salesforce in the healthcare industry: capabilities, applications, alternatives

Viseven

The largest non-profit provider of behavioral healthcare in California used Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud to meet the increasing demand for mental health services and automate their workflow. The provider’s team used to spend 80 hours processing a list of potential clients. With Salesforce, they do it for 15 minutes.

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STAT+: Biden changes will force health insurers to speed up and get more specific if they want to deny care

STAT

The Biden administration moved Wednesday to force insurance companies to give specific reasons for denying coverage, and to speed up the pre-approval process in general. The new rule applies to health insurance companies that offer Medicare, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program, and Obamacare plans.