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

Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt told Kansas lawmakers the prior authorization process is broken, but indicated lobbyists will oppose legislation.

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

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pressed health insurance CEOs on premium hikes, prior authorization rules and claim ...

A man with leukemia wrestles with his insurance company for access to medications to manage his excruciating pain. An oncologist is forced to delay needed treatments while arguing for health insurance ...

Today, during a Ways and Means Committee hearing, U.S. Representative Mike Kelly, a member of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, called on the CEOS from the nation's top health insurance ...

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

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

The Connecticut State Medical Society is taking aim at the health insurance industry's practice of prior authorization this legislative session. Prior authorization, also known as "precertification" ...

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 ...