UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) is rolling out a major expansion of its medical prior authorization program, focusing on ...

Major health insurers are advancing efforts to standardize prior authorization requirements as part of an effort to simplify ...

Roughly 50 insurers signed an AHIP (formerly America’s Health Insurance Plans) and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association commitment to standardize electronic prior authorization across most medical ...

Prior authorization has become one of the clearest points where administrative complexity directly affects patient care. For ...

Major health insurers say they have cut prior authorizations, but the AMA says physicians report that the burden of prior ...

UnitedHealthcare today announced more than half of its prior authorization volume will be included in an industrywide effort to standardize submission requirements for electronic prior authorization, ...

Major U.S. health insurers, including UnitedHealthcare, CVS Health’s Aetna, and others, have committed to a standardized electronic prior authorization process for common medical services. The ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed extending prior authorization reforms to prescription drugs, aiming for faster decisions, greater transparency, and updated interoperability ...

Prior authorization was rated a major burden by 32% of insured adults and the single greatest barrier by 34%, surpassing ...

Prior authorization is a process wherein a doctor must get approval from a patient’s health insurer before providing a medical service, like prescribing a drug or performing a surgery. Payers argue ...

The Biden administration released a proposal which, if finalized, would mandate Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicaid managed care, Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans and state Medicaid agencies implement ...

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