AMCRA Active in State Legislative Agenda for Managed Care

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry News The American Managed Care & Review Association (AMCRA) has formed a legislative subcommittee to fight proposed restrictive state regulation of utilization review activities and to promote the creation of voluntary national utilization review standards. The subcommittee is part of the utilization review section of the organization. According to Marguerite Snyder, AMCRA’s Director of Government Affairs, AMCRA represents managed care companies at the federal and state level. “The subcommittee has been very active this summer - there is a lot of legislation pending. On a state level, our biggest . . .