Prior authorization forces doctors to spend 13 hours a week fighting insurers. New federal rules are changing that. Here's what you need to know.

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 ...

Few readers would be surprised to read that Americans are dissatisfied with their health care coverage — an outrage that the December 2024 assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson arguably ...

Patients with retinal diseases often waited days or even weeks for insurers to respond to prior authorization requests to approve anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) intravitreal injections ...

HB 4965 permits switching to an alternative medically appropriate treatment of equal or lesser value after initial approval, eliminating duplicative prior authorization for WV PEIA members. Prior ...

Of 754 radiation oncologists surveyed, 92% said prior authorization leads to treatment delays. Prior authorization requirements can be harmful to cancer patients and place additional burdens on ...

State laws that ban insurance prior authorization for buprenorphine—a leading medication for opioid use disorder—may not help more patients stay in treatment for the recommended minimum of 180 days, ...

CAESAREA, Israel, Oct. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") has granted marketing authorization for ProSense®, a minimally invasive cryoablation treatment for patients ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Expert panelists discuss bridging communication between payers and providers in the AD treatment pathway. Casey Butrus, PharmD: I know you mentioned, Amy, that prior authorizations are on every ...