Insurance companies require doctors to get approval before providing some care to patients, a process known as prior authorization. Doctors and patients alike are often frustrated by the process, ...

Health insurance companies are expected to hold to their promises in 2026 to “streamline, simplify and reduce” prior ...

The New Mexico Office of Superintendent of Insurance urges all health insurance consumers to actively monitor the status of any prior authorization requests submitted on their behalf. Prior ...

(Reuters) - UnitedHealth Group Inc said on Wednesday its insurance unit will reduce the use of prior authorization process by 20% for some non-urgent surgeries and procedures. Under this process, ...

ASC leaders are often frustrated over their interactions with insurance companies. Anthony Romeo, MD, executive vice president of the Musculoskeletal Institute of Duly Health and Care in Elmhurst, Ill ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - Major health insurance companies, representing about 75% of covered Americans, are pledging to speed up the "prior authorization" process, Dr. Mehmet Oz announced Monday. "It ...

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMS) has officially announced which producers will require prior ...

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the prior authorization process had become the bane of doctors and patients. Physicians say that health insurers’ authorization requirements, which can delay the use ...

Have you ever walked into the pharmacy and been told that your prescription requires a prior authorization? But your healthcare professional prescribed something for you, and you brought in your ...

As public scrutiny of the health insurance industry continues to mount, another group has emerged among those who claim they have been harmed by insurance company practices. Cancer patients, their ...