{"id":4805,"date":"2025-06-23T23:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/health-insurers-pledge-to-cut-down-prior-authorization-requests-speed-up-processing-will-it-help\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T23:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:02:20","slug":"health-insurers-pledge-to-cut-down-prior-authorization-requests-speed-up-processing-will-it-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/health-insurers-pledge-to-cut-down-prior-authorization-requests-speed-up-processing-will-it-help\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Health insurers promise to reduce barriers to care under pressure from Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: Health insurers promise to reduce barriers to care under pressure from Trump administration<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Last week\u2019s pledge from more than 40 health insurers to cut down on prior authorizations came after some behind-the-scenes convincing from the Trump administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The administration pushed insurers to sign a voluntary pledge to cut back on prior authorizations and simplify the process, Health and Human Services Department Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahip.org\/news\/press-releases\/health-plans-take-action-to-simplify-prior-authorization\">pledge<\/a> came from two major insurance industry lobbying groups, America\u2019s Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and member insurers who together cover almost 260 million Americans. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/23\/health-insurers-pledge-to-cut-down-prior-authorization-requests-speed-up-processing-will-it-help\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Tara Bannow and Chelsea Cirruzzo<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/23\/health-insurers-pledge-to-cut-down-prior-authorization-requests-speed-up-processing-will-it-help\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: Health insurers promise to reduce barriers to care under pressure from Trump administration WASHINGTON \u2014 Last week\u2019s pledge from more than 40 health insurers to cut down on prior authorizations came after some behind-the-scenes convincing from the Trump administration.\u00a0 The administration pushed insurers to sign a voluntary pledge to cut back on prior authorizations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,2157,2288,2147,2212,2213,2313,2314,2151,2144,2149,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-4805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cms","category-health-insurance","category-hhs","category-hospitals","category-insurance","category-patients","category-physicians","category-policy","category-politics","category-rfk-jr","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}