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

This month, lawmaker introduced or were drafting separate bills restricting health insurers’ ability to require prior ...

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Bruce A. Scott, M.D., president of The American Medical Association (AMA), said in a statement Witty’s vow to address prior authorization, but “improving the prior authorization process requires ...

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 ...

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 ...

The final Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Interoperability and Prior Authorization Rule released this month marks a major milestone in reforming prior authorization practices and ...

“We urge CMS to promptly finalize and implement these changes to increase transparency and improve the prior-authorization process for patients, providers and health plans,” wrote the lawmakers. “We ...

What’s the news: The AMA has joined the Medical Society of the District of Columbia (MSDC) to support a bill to reform prior authorization, the health insurer-imposed approval processes for medical ...