A new bill would let more doctors prescribe addiction treatments without waiting for insurers’ permission

Comment; I HATE prior-authorizations (PA’s). The insurer-led process that requires a duly licensed (State Medical Board AND active DEA) to waste time online and/or phone trying to get “special permission” to “authorize” payment for the prescription medication that we think our patient needs. We then get to speak to a clerical, non-medical person who is clueless about medicine following a script to determine if the patient is “elligible” to get what we think they need! A waste of our time designed to save payers $$ and deprive patients of medications

Dr. Raymond Oenbrink