ASE Issues Support for Prior Authorization Reform Legislation

RE: Support of H.R. 2433, the Reducing Medically Unnecessary Delays in Care Act

Dear Representatives Green and Schrier:

As patient and physician advocates, the Alliance of Specialty Medicine (the “Alliance”) writes in support of your legislation, H.R. 2433, the Reducing Medically Unnecessary Delays in Care Act, which would ensure that prior authorization decisions in Medicare and Medicare Advantage are made by board-certified physicians in the same specialty as the physician of the treatment or disease in question, and direct plans to comply with requirements around medical necessity and written clinical criteria.