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Insurers Promise to Speed Up Delays in Health Care Approvals

Physician's Weekly

Officials are also working to improve access to physical therapy, diagnostic imaging and outpatient surgery. CMS said it hopes insurers will stop requiring prior authorizations for common things such as colonoscopies, cataract surgery and childbirth. Still, some experts remain skeptical. Talk is cheap,” Gaffney said.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . But we have managed to control it.