As an emergency medicine physician at ECU Health, I witness firsthand the devastating consequences of unnecessary prior ...

Rep. Mark Green, MD, of Tennessee has reintroduced legislation taking aim at prior authorization requirements.

A bill to reform “prior authorization” has passed both the North Dakota House and Senate.

For patient advocates and health economists, cases like Ekirch’s illustrate why prior authorization has become such a chronic ...

Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) reintroduced a bill Thursday seeking to nix prior authorization requirements in Medicare, Medicare ...

According to the American Medical Association, 23% of physicians report that prior authorization has led to a patient’s hospitalization, while 18% report that it has led to a life-threatening event.

The practice is known as "prior authorization." Patients often have to wait days or weeks to find out if their insurance company will cover the treatment or medication their doctor recommends.

Rep. Mark Green, MD, a Republican from Tennessee, reintroduced a bill to Congress that would reform prior authorization requirements, The Hill reported March 27. “As a survivor of both colon and ...

Optum Rx said it plans to apply the policy to additional drugs in the future. Prior authorization requires doctors to get approval from a patient’s health or drug plan before providing a medical ...

Duke Health CHIO Eric Poon says healthcare leaders can move quickly and fail fast, but they had better learn from those mistakes and adjust accordingly The Duke University Health System is ...