A pair of big wins capped a successful past week for medicine, as the Texas House of Representatives on Friday afternoon signed off on both curbing the impositions of prior authorization and updating the state’s immunization registry.
Haters of preauthorization burdens – and if you’re reading this, chances are you’re among them – will celebrate the House’s passage of House Bill 3459 by Rep. Greg Bonnen, MD (R-Friendswood). The bill attacks the plague of prior authorization requirements in two major ways.
First, for certain services, if a physician earns insurer approval on 80% of preauthorization requests for the service in one calendar year, the doctor will be exempt from preauthorization for that service in the next calendar year. HB 3459 would allow physicians to gain those exemptions on an every-other-year cycle