{"id":31627,"date":"2026-03-19T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=31627"},"modified":"2026-03-19T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:16:00","slug":"120392","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=31627","title":{"rendered":"Should Doctors Charge Patients for Prior Authorization?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/clf1.medpagetoday.com\/media\/images\/120xxx\/120392.jpg\" \/> (MedPage Today) &#8212; Some physician practices are charging patients for prior authorization requests or requiring annual administrative fees for such requests and letters of medical necessity, among other services.<br \/>\nIn February, patients at one Washington&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/practicemanagement\/practicemanagement\/120392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.medpagetoday.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MedPage Today) &#8212; Some physician practices are charging patients for prior authorization requests or requiring annual administrative fees for such requests and letters of medical necessity, among other services. In February, patients at one Washington&#8230; Source: www.medpagetoday.com Medical Disclaimer: This content is shared for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute medical, legal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[21835,21834,2257,12856,16721],"class_list":["post-31627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-conditions","tag-authorization","tag-charge","tag-doctors","tag-patients","tag-prior"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}