On prior authorizations and Medicare Advantage reforms: a lawmaker's perspective

Larry Bucshon, MD, spent years as a practicing physician and cardiothoracic surgeon before being elected to Congress in 2010. As vice chair of the Health Subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy& Commerce, he has reviewed numerous pending bills that would affect health care and medicine around the nation. On Feb. 16, Bucshon spoke to Medical Economics about…