CMS is adding prior authorization requirements for certain fee-for-service procedures under traditional Medicare as part of its new Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction model. A total of 17 ...

CMS has unveiled the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction model, a new Innovation Center initiative that will add prior authorization for some traditional fee-for-service Medicare services.

The model will leverage AI and machine learning for prior authorization of services vulnerable to fraud or inappropriate use, ...

Beginning next year, the CMS will launch an AI-powered prior authorization process for some services as it seeks to cut funding for what it deems medically unnecessary care.

Major insurers say they’ll ease up on the prior-authorization practice that can delay necessary care for patients.

The Department of Health and Human Services June 23 announced an initiative coordinated with multiple health insurance ...

Highmark is among the more than 50 health insurers who pledged Monday to speed up and slim down prior authorization, the ...

The nation’s major health insurers are promising to scale back and improve a widely despised practice that leads to care ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a new Innovation Center model aimed at helping ensure people with Original Medicare receive care.

Nearly all customers of Medicare Advantage plans, the privately run version of the federal government's Medicare program, need prior authorization for some services, particularly expensive care ...