Medicare Advantage Plans Fielded 35 Million Prior Auth Requests in 2021
Over 35 million prior authorization requests were submitted to Medicare Advantage insurers in 2021, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Two million of these requests, or 6%, were fully or partly denied, according to Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, PhD, associate director of the Program on Medicare Policy, and Nolan Sroczynski, MSPH, […]
First Data on COVID Vaccines for Younger Kids – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Coronavirus News WEDNESDAY, Sept. 29, 2021 Pfizer Inc. announced Tuesday that it has submitted initial data to federal regulators on the efficacy of its COVID-19 vaccine among younger children. The company is also expected to submit the same data on kids aged 5 to 11 to the European Medicines Agency and other […]