Take Action Now: Help CMA Streamline Prior Authorization August 23, 2024 Advocacy, Legislation Help reform prior authorization by urging your legislator to vote YES on SB 516. SB 516 will reduce the number of prior authorization requirements and ensure your resources and time are invested in patient care, not unnecessary health plan bureaucracy. The legislation requires health plans to submit a prior authorization report to the state with code approval rates and will remove prior authorization for all codes with a 90% or higher approval rate. The data reporting will spotlight how health plans are using prior authorization to deny care and gives the state authority to ban the use of prior authorization on a code-by-code-basis. SB 516 will help streamline your work and ensure that health plans don’t get in between you and your patients. Take Action Now!