Major health insurance providers have agreed to reduce the need for prior authorization — the requirement that patients must get approval from insurers before receiving certain treatments or risk ...

Insurance red tape is delaying care, driving up costs and consuming hours of physicians' time — and patients are paying the price.

Doctors and patients complain that the controversial practice of prior authorization for treatment and procedures is still ...

A new study finds that prior authorization requirements vary widely across major insurers and suggests large language models ...

UnitedHealthcare plans to eliminate prior authorization requirements for 30% of services by the end of 2026.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz listens to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speak during a news conference to discuss health insurance ...

The largest U.S. health insurer said it will eliminate approval requirements for some treatments, including select outpatient ...

Editor's note: The following article is part of a series on what clients are asking their advisors prior to the Medicare open enrollment period. Prior authorizations and higher premiums are two of the ...

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. He weighed 97 pounds and wasn’t expected to survive a year ...

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BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. He weighed 97 pounds and wasn’t expected to survive a year ...