About a quarter of U.S. healthcare spending goes to administrative functions, not clinical services to improve patient health. To lower healthcare costs, the HASC is calling on key industry stakeholders to leverage health information technology and the use of industry standards to streamline critical areas of healthcare administration.

HASC recommendations for reform:

• Simplify practitioner credentialing

• Improve the healthcare insurance eligibility process

• Standardize machine-readable health identification cards

• Standardize prior authorization processes