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 ...

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?” — ...

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.

Prior authorization is a major noncost barrier, affecting 69% of insured adults, with 34% citing it as their biggest challenge. Delays and denials from prior authorizations significantly impact mental ...

Some of the nation’s largest insurance providers are pledging to make major reforms to the prior authorization process, a practice requiring insurance company sign-off for certain treatments that ...

For patients with heart failure, prior authorization is associated with reduced and delayed filling of prescriptions for ARNIs and SGLT2is.

Health insurance companies across the country have agreed to streamline and simplify the prior authorization process for patients seeking certain medical treatment, according to a nationwide industry ...

June 23 (UPI) --Major American insurers announced Monday that they have agreed to speed up and smooth out the processes involved with the reception and administration of health care by streamlining ...

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