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Prior authorization for imaging not a money-saver

The need to obtain prior authorization for medical imaging exams is costly both from a patient safety and a dollars-and-cents perspective, according to officials from the Access to Medical Imaging

Electronic prior authorization piloted for e-prescription

CVS Caremark, which includes a leading pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), is piloting a method of electronic prior authorization (ePA) that can be used in the workflow of electronic prescribing. The

Money-saving imaging CDS program gets large-scale deployment

A clinical decision support pilot program in Minnesota has proved so successful at reducing utilization of expensive imaging diagnostics that it will be rolled out statewide and made available to

Imaging coalition says White House supports radiology benefit managers

Believing that the Obama administration is favoring third-party radiology benefit managers over clinical decision support to control imaging utilization, a group of health IT supporters are