Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jesse Pines is an expert in healthcare innovation and wellness. Health insurer prior authorization has increased considerably in ...

The New Mexico Office of Superintendent of Insurance urges all health insurance consumers to actively monitor the status of any prior authorization requests submitted on their behalf. Prior ...

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz listens to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speak during a news conference to discuss health insurance ...

Some of the nation’s largest insurance providers are pledging to make major reforms to the prior authorization process, a practice requiring insurance company sign-off for certain treatments that ...

While the headaches and life-altering results of insurance pre-authorizations are not new to physicians or patients, lately things have been getting worse. Patients are sending more and more messages ...

Every American who has ever needed surgery, a scan, or a specialist referral knows the particular dread of those three words: ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with American Medical Association President Bruce Scott about how physicians and patients are burdened by insurance companies' systems of prior authorization. A lot has been ...

Large health insurance companies vowed to cut down the use of and improve a common tool to vet requests before letting doctors bill for medical services or prescriptions. UnitedHealthcare, Blue Cross ...

State lawmakers want to crack down on an insurance practice that requires people to wait for approval for medical treatments. The practice is known as "prior authorization." Patients often have to ...

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 ...

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