While the cost of health care remains the dominant worry among Americans, the process of obtaining prior authorization from ...

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 ...

Health insurance companies increasingly require medical providers to obtain approval before delivering the costliest forms of treatment to patients. This has helped curb wasteful expenditure but also ...

One third insured adults say prior authorization is a major burden in accessing care, highlighting insurer delays and denials ...

A bill to exempt health-care providers who have 90% or more of their claims approved from health-insurance companies' requirements for prior authorization of certain treatments has failed again.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has implemented prior authorization requirements for certain traditional ...

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 ...

Many people, at one time or another, have needed to get approval from their insurance company before receiving certain treatments, medications, or procedures to ensure they’re covered. Prior ...

CVS Health (CVS) on Thursday announced that it plans to make a large portion of its prior authorization procedures consistent ...

The federal government has begun using artificial intelligence to review whether certain treatments are necessary for ...

Medicare has launched a six-year pilot program that could eventually transform access to health care for some of the millions ...