While the cost of health care remains the dominant worry among Americans, the process of obtaining prior authorization from ...

One third insured adults say prior authorization is a major burden in accessing care, highlighting insurer delays and denials ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has implemented prior authorization requirements for certain traditional ...

The new KFF report found that payers either fully or partially denied 4.1 million prior authorization requests in 2024, or ...

Medicare Advantage prior authorizations have few friends. Doctors hate them. Patients hate them. Politicians say they hate them and introduce bills to curb them. But how onerous are they really? Less ...

Elisa Auguste, administrator at East Setauket, N.Y.-based Precision Care Surgery Center and vice president of the New York ...

Ask a provider what’s causing tension in their relationship with insurers and many will point to prior authorization, arguing that the practice creates administrative burdens and delays in patient ...

Health plans under major U.S. insurers said they have voluntarily agreed to speed up and reduce prior authorizations – a process that is often a major pain point for patients and providers for getting ...

Prior authorizations create substantial administrative and financial burdens on physicians and patients and can disrupt the continuity of care. This commentary discusses the current prior ...

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 ...

Prior authorizations are increasingly straining the healthcare industry, according to a survey of 1,000 practicing physicians in the U.S. The American Medical Association conducted the survey, which ...