Few words arouse more frustration among primary care physicians (PCPs) than âprior authorization.â And itâs easy to understand why. The time you and your staff have to spend persuading an insurance company to cover a medication or procedure is an expensive and annoying distraction from the task of caring for patients.
It was a ten cent value that was part of the Famous Americans Series. Booker T. Washington was the first black American to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp issue. His boyhood home was later pictured on a stamp as well.
Of course Hill's proposal was heavily debated for a few years, but after serious discussion the change was enacted and instituted in 1840. Thus on May 6, 1840 (first date of valid use) the first government-printed postage stamps were born. Sir Rowland Hill himself designed the first stamp which cost one penny and bore the profile of Queen Victoria.