Doctors rallied at the state capitol today to support House Bill 134, which reforms, quote, the prior authorization process.

Prior authorization and requires doctors to obtain advance approval from insurance providers before performing certain services and patient procedures.

The Kentucky Medical Association considers the current system, quote, a problematic barrier to care and wants it to change.

State Representative Kim Moser of Northern Kentucky agrees.

Hear more in tonight's legislative update.

House Bill 134 just will make it easier for patients to get the care that they need in a timely manner and lift a lot of the burdens that are leading to physician burnout.

Frustration among not just providers, but also patients.

I think it's a win win both for insurance companies and for patients and also for physicians to be able to put those decisions in the right place and allow us to be able to get treatment for people that that we need.

The other issue is so many times patients are improving and doing excellent on the medicine we have them on, and then all of a sudden it's not going to be covered anymore.

So you have to take a patient who's been controlled on accurate medicine and then you have to revamp and start all over again trying to get something covered that, you know, works for them.

Rather than allowing insurance companies to dictate when, how and where Kentuckians receive their care.

We should leave those decisions to physicians and their patients who have created a relationship and have a trusted bond and help them make those great decisions for their health and their well-being.

The steps we take to reform prior authorization will help us to put patients first, and that's really what health care is about.

The bill's sponsor, Representative Kim Moser, is a retired registered nurse.