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Trump admin secures pledge from 75% of health insurers in bid to improve patient care Roughly three-quarters of the nation's health insurance providers signed a series of commitments this week in an effort to improve patient care by reducing bureaucratic hurdles caused by insurance companies' prior-authorization requirements. Director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz, alongside Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced the new voluntary pledge from a cadre of insurance providers, who cover roughly 75% of the population, during a press conference Monday. The new commitments are aimed at speeding up and reducing prior-authorization processes used by insurers, a process that has been long-maligned for unnecessarily delaying patient care and other bureaucratic hurdles negatively impacting patients. "The pledge is not a mandate. It's not a bill, a rule. This is not legislated. This is a opportunity for industry to show itself," Oz said Monday. "But by the fact that three-quarters of the patients in the country are already covered by participants in this pledge, it's a good start and the response has been overwhelming." A NEW LAW IN THIS STATE BANS AUTOMATED INSURANCE CLAIM DENIALS Prior-authorization is a process that requires providers to obtain approval from a patient's insurance provider before that provider can offer certain treatments or services. Essentially, the process seeks to ensure patients are getting the right solution
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