"Requiring prior authorization ... is the practice of medicine," said Rep. Neal Dunn, MD ...

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 ...

Major health insurers have pledged to improve the prior authorization process, which has long frustrated Americans.

While these policies are meant to control health care costs by steering patients toward lower-priced alternatives, they may ...

Why do I need a prior authorization for something that I am already prior-authorized to take? If my doctor says that they want me on a medication, why does my insurance have another say in that?” — ...

Some physician practices are charging patients for prior authorization requests or requiring annual administrative fees for such requests and letters of medical necessity, among other services. In ...

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 ...

Major health insurance providers have agreed to reduce the need for prior authorization — the requirement that patients must get approval from insurers before receiving certain treatments or risk ...

Here are four things to know. 1. Providers may use the prior authorization solution to confirm if medical procedures require preauthorization, according to a news release. 2. TransUnion Healthcare ...

Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers’ practice of denying or delaying doctor-ordered care, the largest U.S.

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 ...