GI Docs Reject UHC Plan To Replace Prior Auth With Advanced Notification

UnitedHealthcare is scrapping a highly controversial plan to require prior authorization for certain scoping services that was slated to go into effect June 1 and will instead require providers to use an advanced notification process that the insurer says will not result in denials for medical reasons. But key gastroenterologist lobbies say they won’t back the notification program, which UHC floated in a meeting with the doctors on Friday (May 26), and in a letter out Tuesday (May 30) demanded...