Insurance companies may require whats known as prior authorization for medical services before they will cover it. The Senate ...

When Lou and Lindsay Volpe’s son was diagnosed with a chronic bowel disease at age 11, their health insurer required constant ...

Patients and their health care providers are saying it’s time Montana joined many other states in limiting how and when insurers can deny drugs or treatments through their preapproval process.

For the more than 4,500 North Dakotans who will be diagnosed with cancer in 2025, medical prior authorization can delay treatment, increase stress and have a negative impact on their care, according ...

Dallas, filed a bill this legislative session to prohibit insurance companies from requiring prior authorization before covering medications intended to prevent the ...

1. The bill, titled the Doctors Know Best Act, was proposed in early January. It would prohibit any group health plans, insurance providers and federal healthcare programs from utilizing prior ...

Health insurers now routinely refuse to pay for more expensive drugs or procedures until they have issued a “prior authorization.” Prior authorization is designed to prevent a physician from ...

Debra Patt, MD, PhD, MBA, MPH, warns that prior authorization barriers are delaying critical cancer treatments and urges a regulatory fix for Stark Law restrictions on mailing oral oncolytics.

UnitedHealthcare will ease prior authorization requirements for its Medicare Advantage plans, UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty said Thursday. In his first public remarks since the murder of ...

them mentality. In Massachusetts, health plans are required by state law to collaborate with physicians to develop medical necessity guidelines used for prior authorization. With this strong ...

Medicare Advantage prior authorization (PA) is the process you go through to get certain services and drugs approved before ...

Surescripts said Touchless Prior Authorization helps automate existing manual workflows, significantly reducing the ...