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Prior Authorization Harms Cancer Care, Radiation Oncologists Say

TOPLINE: Prior authorization may cause treatment delays for patients, prompt physicians to choose less optimal treatments, cause patients to abandon treatments, and result in adverse events and sometimes death, according to the latest survey of US radiation oncologists. METHODOLOGY: The physician specialty with the highest rate of nondrug prior authorization is radiation oncology…

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