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Prior Authorization

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Prior authorization is one of the many tools health insurance providers use to promote safe, timely, evidence-based, affordable, and efficient care.

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2025 Medicare, Medicaid, Duals & Commercial Markets Forum

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Mar 25 - 27, 2025
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Getting Ready for Personalized Marketing: The Critical First Step to AI Success

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Feb 25, 2025 • 1:00 – 2:00 pm EST
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Insights from a Health Care Trailblazer: Growth, Innovation, and Member-Centric Success

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Feb 11, 2025 • 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
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Fast Path Initiative

Health insurance providers consistently seek ways to enhance the patient and provider experience. In January 2020, AHIP launched a new initiative called the Fast Prior Authorization Technology Highway (Fast PATH) better understand the impact of electronic prior authorization (ePA) on the prior authorization process.

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News

New Resource Highlights How Prior Authorization Promotes Affordable Patient Care

Putting Patients First: How Health Insurance Providers Are Improving Prior Authorization

Health insurance providers are implementing electronic prior authorization and other tools to help improve the process for patients and clinicians.

Hospitals, Physicians, Health Insurance Providers Urge CMS Not to Implement Costly, Conflicting Prior Authorization Standards

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AHIP State Contacts

Find contact information for AHIP state affairs staff and view state-specific resources.

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