House Rules Committee holds public hearing on HB 3134 to standardize prior authorization reporting and electronic process

The House Committee on Rules held a public hearing April 23 on House Bill 3134, dash 4, which would require insurers to annually report specified prior-authorization data to the Department of Consumer and Business Services, prohibit certain prior-authorization requirements during surgery and for related procedures discovered in surgery, and require insurers to adopt an interoperable prior-authorization application programming interface that aligns with federal requirements and rules. Committee Chair Bowman opened and later closed the hearing; no vote was taken.

The bill’s sponsor, Representative Rob Noss, state representative for House District 42, told the committee the dash-4 amendment pares the measure down to three core provisions after earlier, larger drafts failed to move. “If we're going to get better at evaluating this, we ought to have information to do that,” Noss said, arguing the measure would make data the state already collects publicly available. He described current prior-authorization processes as “a Byzantine set of circumstances for approving procedures,” citing variable rules across carriers, manual reviews and long hold times.

Under the dash-4…