Under new state regulations, doctors will no longer need to seek pre-approval from a patient’s health insurer before ...

One of the biggest frustrations in getting medical care — prior authorization from insurance companies — might get easier soon. Some of America’s biggest health insurance companies are now pledging to ...

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 ...

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 ...

This statement highlights what hospitals, clinicians, and patients are experiencing on the ground — and why commercial ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Major health insurance companies, representing about 75% of covered Americans, are pledging to speed up the “prior authorization” process, Dr. Mehmet Oz announced Monday. “It ...

Governor Maura Healey announced a significant reform to health insurance prior authorization rules aimed at streamlining patient access to health care services, amid ongoing federal funding cuts.

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 ...

When Sally Nix found out that her health insurance company wouldn’t pay for an expensive, doctor-recommended treatment to ease her neurological pain, she prepared for battle. It took years, a chain of ...