Massachusetts regulators would eliminate many prior authorization rules, speed urgent approvals and form a working group to ...

Under new state regulations, doctors will no longer need to seek pre-approval from a patient’s health insurer before ...

The idea behind it seems reasonable: Insurers want to ensure treatments are medically necessary before they pay for them. But ...

Prior authorizations have long been hated by many, but insurers call them an essential tool they use to control spending.

The House Banking and Insurance Committee advanced a bill on Wednesday, Jan. 14 that would allow certain health care ...

There is a good reason for health insurers to occasionally require prior authorization for medical treatment. If a doctor ...

June 23 (UPI) --Major American insurers announced Monday that they have agreed to speed up and smooth out the processes involved with the reception and administration of health care by streamlining ...

Health plan executives expect AI to automate prior authorizations, improving turnaround times amid CMS regulatory changes, Deloitte finds.

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 ...

Sheldon Ekirch spends a lot of time on hold with her health insurance company. Sometimes, as the minutes tick by and her frustration mounts, Ekirch, 30, opens a meditation app on her phone. It was ...

When Sally Nix found out that her health insurance company wouldn’t pay for an expensive, doctor-recommended treatment to ease her neurological pain, she prepared for battle. It took years, a chain of ...