Takeaways from health insurers' pre-approval pledge
Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers' practice of denying or delaying doctor-ordered care, the largest U.S. insurers agreed this week to streamline their often cumbersome preapproval system. "The pledge is not a mandate," Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare&…
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