Exploring Medicare Advantage Prior Authorization Variations

22/03/2024 17 min
Exploring Medicare Advantage Prior Authorization Variations

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Episode Synopsis

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the University of Minnesota School of Public Health's Hannah Neprash, PhD; John Mulcahy, a PhD candidate; and Ezra Golberstein, PhD, the authors of a study published in the March 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®.

Their study, "The Extent and Growth of Prior Authorization in Medicare Advantage," discusses how the service-, area-, and carrier-level patterns they identified suggest variation in how Medicare Advantage plans use prior authorization.

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