On March 13, the Missouri House of Representatives approved House Bill 618, which would reform healthcare prior authorization ...

GuideWell CEO Pat Geraghty is optimistic that Congress will extend the enhanced exchange subsidies past 2025 despite ...

For patient advocates and health economists, cases like Ekirch’s illustrate why prior authorization has become such a chronic ...

Prior authorizations create substantial administrative and financial burdens on physicians and patients and can disrupt the continuity of care.

FILE - A doctor wears a stethoscope around his neck as he tends to patients in his office in Illinois. Lawmakers are trying to reform an insurance practice aimed at curbing unnecessary treatments ...

Optum Rx, the pharmacy benefit manager under UnitedHealth Group, is set to eliminate prior authorization requirements for approximately 80 prescription drugs in an effort to simplify access to ...

Optum Rx is moving to eliminate prior authorizations on dozens of drugs, the UnitedHealth-owned pharmacy benefit manager said Wednesday, paring back a key pain point for physicians and patients ...

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State lawmakers want to crack down on an insurance practice that requires people to wait for approval for medical treatments. The practice is known as "prior authorization." Patients often have to ...

A backpacker detained in the US is back home in Wales after an emotional airport reunion, her father has confirmed. Becky Burke, 28, had been held in a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE ...

When your enemies are destroying themselves, let them. There’s no point in firing on your enemy when your enemy is busy firing on themselves, and that’s what Democrats are doing. And it is ...

The European Union has delayed the implementation of its ETIAS travel authorization system to the end of 2026. The ETIAS is not a visa, but a travel authorization for short-term stays in the EU ...