WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) today reintroduced the Prior Authorization Relief Act, legislation to cut the administrative burdens associated with prior authorizations - a tool that requires health care providers to secure approval from health insurance plans before delivering medicines and services for a patient - so that patients can get faster care. The bill eliminates prior authorizations from providers in value-based payment models.
"Americans are rightfully fed up with health care bureaucracy, and one of the many reasons is payment warfare by prior authorization," said Whitehouse, a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee. "Providers in...