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CMS Issues Enforcement Discretion Guidance for Prior Authorization Standards

What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued enforcement discretion guidance for entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) that are implementing certain prior authorization application programming interfaces (APIs). 

What else to know: This is in response to finalized policies to advance interoperability and electronic prior authorization processes.  

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