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 ...

Massachusetts residents who need cancer screenings, diabetes medications and other essential care will soon face shorter ...

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 ...

The largest U.S. health insurer said it will eliminate approval requirements for some treatments, including select outpatient ...

Last summer, the insurance industry broadly agreed to reform a major healthcare pain point: prior authorization. Now, two of the industry's leading organizations are offering a look at progress toward ...

Health insurance company UnitedHealthcare will no longer require certain prior approvals for 30% of services. The company announced Tuesday that it will eliminate those requirements from services that ...

Several dozen insurers — including insurance giants UnitedHealthcare, Elevance, Aetna, Cigna and Kaiser Permanente — announced Monday that they will make “prior authorization,” a practice that many ...

InvestigateTV also contacted a healthcare information educator in Louisiana, Jacqueline Jones, who replicated a portion of the team’s research. Jones looked at sub-set of tests and procedures and the ...

An oft-repeated phrase dating back to the fourth century B.C. is that physicians should "first do no harm" when treating patients. In the present day, insurance companies - which report to their ...