Enacts provisions relating to prior authorization of health care services
Committee hearing: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Committee hearing
- Started in
- Senate
- Latest action
- Mar 3, 2026
What it does
SB 897 - This act provides that health care providers shall not be required to obtain prior authorization for a health care service unless the health carrier or utilization review entity determines that in the most recent evaluation period, as defined in the act, less than 90% of the prior authorization requests submitted by that provider for that health care service were approved or would have been approved.
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