Feds Allow Free Insurance Pre-Authorization Services

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News The federal Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has released an advisory opinion that allows the use of free insurance pre-authorization services.  The advisory opinion was specific to a hospital’s submitted plan to provide free insurance pre-authorization services for imaging tests; because the hospital's plan had sufficient design aspects to limit the likelihood of fraud or abuse, the OIG said that it would not impose sanctions if the hospital that requested the opinion offered the services. In the opinion, the OIG . . .