About 99% of people in Medicare Advantage must get prior authorization for at least some services, typically high-cost ones ...

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 ...

Last summer, major payers committed to pare back onerous prior authorization policies, to the skepticism of providers. Now, AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association are providing an update on ...

UnitedHealthcare, the nation's largest health insurer, will exempt rural physicians and hospitals from “prior authorization ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prior authorization: For patients and doctors, insurance can be an unfair game A man with leukemia wrestles with his insurance ...

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GoodRx reports that step therapy requires patients to try lower-cost medications before coverage for prescribed treatments.

There’s an effort in Congress to prevent your health insurance company from denying you the care you need.