A recent opinion from the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has changed the rules for Utilization Review and thrown open the doors to a new class of litigants. In Keystone Rx, LLC v. AmeriHealth (Fee ...
The utilization review process is designed to help hospitals determine the appropriate level of care and care setting for patients based on medical necessity. While this process is an expense for ...
The utilization review process, in which an employer may challenge the reasonableness or necessity of the medical treatment of an injured employee, was at issue in County of Allegheny (John J. Kane ...
As most workers' compensation practitioners are aware, the utilization review process was one of the main aspects of the medical cost containment provisions of the 1993 amendments to the Workers' ...
Concurrent review is a utilization review process that occurs while a patient is actively receiving treatment, such as during a hospital stay. It evaluates the medical necessity and appropriateness of ...
On January 25, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling that the Secretary of HHS violated the due process rights of Medicare beneficiaries by failing to ...
Health systems and health insurance plans spend enormous sums of money battling over how to be paid fairly — and these battles have only intensified with the growth of Medicare Advantage plans, which ...
I need to do a drug utilization evaluation (DUE) for a new product to be added to our formulary. What resources are available to develop a DUE? The formulary system encompasses facets of medication ...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VirtualHealth, provider of HELIOS, the leading SaaS care management platform, today announced the launch of a fully integrated, ground-breaking utilization management ...