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Aetna Endorses Moves to Simplify Prior Authorization in Healthcare

The Pharma Data

Under this program, Aetna nurses are embedded directly within health care facilities, working shoulder-to-shoulder with hospital care teams. These nurses not only facilitate discharge planning but also coordinate services across multiple dimensions of care—including pharmacy, mental health, and social support services.

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Overcoming Healthcare’s Mountain of Mistrust – Part 2: Payers

Perficient: Drug Development

To recap: Part 1 of the series focused on providers This part, Part 2, focuses on payers (insurance companies) Part 3 (by Marlana Voerster ) will focus on medical-device organizations First off: the bad news in trust for payers Gallup’s polling data among U.S. So there’s not much to celebrate in these results.

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