{"id":2176,"date":"2026-08-11T05:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2026-08-11T05:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:44:06","slug":"a-call-for-a-ban-on-prior-authorizations-health-care-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=2176","title":{"rendered":"A call for a ban on prior authorizations: Health Care Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns article-author-header\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column avatar\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bob-h-avatar-round-80x80.png\" class=\"avatar-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, 70px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bob-h-avatar-round-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bob-h-avatar-round-328x328.png 328w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bob-h-avatar-round-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bob-h-avatar-round-576x576.png 576w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bob-h-avatar-round-160x160.png 160w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bob-h-avatar-round.png 600w\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column author\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<p class=\"author-title\">Business of Health Care Reporter<\/p>\n<ol class=\"mobile\">\n<li><a class=\"social-item-icon twitter\" title=\"X\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bobjherman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\/><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"social-item-icon bluesky\" title=\"Bluesky\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/bobjherman.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\/><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"social-item-icon email\" title=\"Email\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statnews.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#395b565b17515c4b545857794a4d584d575c4e4a175a5654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\/><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"social-item-icon linkedin\" title=\"Linkedin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bob-herman-91b54611\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"author-bio\">Bob covers the money in health care, focusing on health insurance and hospitals. His stories delve into Medicare Advantage, opaque prescription drug benefits, and how much executives actually make. He is also the author of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/signup\/health-care-inc\/\">Health Care Inc. newsletter<\/a>. You can reach Bob on Signal at bobjherman.09.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business of Health Care Reporter Bob covers the money in health care, focusing on health insurance and hospitals. His stories delve into Medicare Advantage, opaque prescription drug benefits, and how much executives actually make. He is also the author of the Health Care Inc. newsletter. You can reach Bob on Signal at bobjherman.09.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4056,123,1119,334,62,4055],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-authorizations","tag-ban","tag-call","tag-care","tag-health","tag-prior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}