With the increase in the amount of data and advances in data analytics, the underwriting process can be automated for faster processing of applications.
The speedy processing of applications must remain an urgent priority.
The New York Times reported last month that as deputy commissioner for operations, Mr. Chiseri did not have any prescribed role in the processing of applications from health care businesses.
As Kathleen Clarke, the bureau's director, told a Congressional committee last fall, "The processing of applications for permits to drill and offering parcels of federal land for oil and gas leasing will be B.L.M.'s major priority".
The Justice Department is declining to bring charges against Lois Lerner, the former Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a political controversy over the processing of applications for tax-exempt status.
And the processing of applications for disability benefits, a program of particular importance to people with low incomes, has been delayed because staff members aren't on hand to go through newly filed paperwork.
In Los Angeles, some Muslims were mistakenly detained for days because they lacked the proper paperwork because of delays and inefficiencies in the government's processing of applications for work permits, green cards and other services.
As the department's deputy commissioner for operations, he had no prescribed role in the processing of applications from health-care businesses, and was not generally known to lawyers and lobbyists in the state's health-care field.
Since then, his Labor government has speeded up the processing of applications, reforming a regime where some had languished behind wire for years.
The fees would allow the Food and Drug Administration to hire more reviewers to speed up the processing of applications to market new generics and reduce a large current backlog.
