Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Starting next year, if a patient switches insurance plans while getting treatment, the new plan must honor the old plan’s prior authorization for at least 90 days. Starting next year, if a patient switches insurance plans while getting treatment, the new plan must honor the old plan’s prior authorization for at least 90 days.

Insurance 52

Insurance Patient-Centered Electronics Physicals 52

FDA Law

MAY 13, 2024

FDA recognizes the potential of RWE to support regulatory submissions of medical devices and to inform benefit-risk analysis of such products, while assuring patients have timely access to devices. RWE is “the clinical evidence regarding the usage, and potential benefits or risks, of a medical product derived from analysis of RWD.”

Medical 111

Medical Clinic Patients IT 111

FDA Law

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These data are routinely collected from a variety of sources, such as electronic health records, providing information on health and healthcare in actual patients, rather than in the controlled environment of a clinical trial. There will be two submission deadlines per year on March 31 and September 30, through March 31, 2027.

Electronics 78

Electronics IT Healthcare Patients 78

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Insurers also pledged to use clear language when communicating with patients and promised that medical professionals would review coverage denials. But health policy analysts say prior authorization — a system that forces some people to delay care or abandon treatment — may continue to pose serious health consequences for affected patients.

Insurance 52

Insurance Patient-Centered Government Patients 52