Forty-eight insurers, including major players, pledged to reform prior authorization processes to improve patient care access. The initiative includes technology standardization, reducing PA ...

Cigna is the latest health insurer to roll back prior authorization requirements, announcing Thursday that it will no longer require the approvals for nearly 25% of medical services. Cigna plans to ...

Massachusetts regulators would eliminate many prior authorization rules, speed urgent approvals and form a working group to ...

Prior authorization has long been a sticking point between payers and providers, with payers arguing that it’s necessary to control costs and ensure that care is medically necessary and providers ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . To accelerate the prior authorization process, physicians could use the electronic prior authorization system ...

To combat growing criticism of prior authorization delays by payers, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized a rule Wednesday that requires health plans to send prior authorization ...

More than half of providers and 43% of payers have yet to start work on the application programming interface requirements of the interoperability and prior authorization final rule, according to a ...

A new AI tool is being tested in Oklahoma to process prior authorizations in Medicare. These Oklahomans say they're worried.

An insurance company often requires this type of preapproval for certain services, procedures, prescription medications, and medical supplies. Your healthcare team can often help you navigate this ...