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TGIF, Illinois. It wasn’t tax day but April 15 still turned out to be crummy. Hoping for a peaceful weekend, friends.
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Chicago is horrified about seeing the last moments of Adam Toledo, a slim boy with wide eyes, appearing to toss something, maybe a gun, before raising empty hands only to be shot dead by a cop.
Healthcare professionals across the state, including the Chief Medical Officer at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington, are hoping to change how insurance goes about approving requests for medical treatment.
Lawmakers want to change how people get insurance company approval before medical treatment. Advocates say the current process harms patients.
It’s a reintroduced bill after the previous one stalled during the pandemic slowdown in legislative work.
The bureaucratic term is prior authorization. Doctors have to clear certain prescriptions and procedures with insurance companies before they go ahead and help patients.
The bill would force insurers to put information on their websites about prior authorization requirements and restrictions for specific procedures. It also limits how long providers can take to approve or deny a request. A doctor who has knowledge of the issue at stake would also have to review appeals.
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Lawmakers want to change how people get insurance company approval before medical treatment. Advocates say the current process harms patients.
It’s a reintroduced bill after the previous one stalled during the pandemic slowdown in legislative work.
The bureaucratic term is prior authorization. Doctors have to clear certain prescriptions and procedures with insurance companies before they go ahead and help patients.
The bill would force insurers to put information on their websites about prior authorization requirements and restrictions for specific procedures. It also limits how long providers can take to approve or deny a request. A doctor who has knowledge of the issue at stake would also have to review appeals.
SPRINGFIELD â Republicans in the General Assembly have introduced a new bill that would hand over the process of drawing new legislative and congressional district maps to an independent commission that would be required to use official Census Bureau, rather than survey estimates, to draw the maps.
The latest bill, introduced Tuesday as an amendment to Senate Bill 1325, mirrors a proposed constitutional amendment that was introduced in 2019. That proposal, which had 37 cosponsors, died in the 101st General Assembly without receiving a hearing.
Every 10 years, states redraw their legislative and congressional district maps to align with the most recent decennial census. That process is being complicated this year, as the census data needed to complete those tasks has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors.