While the cost of health care remains the dominant worry among Americans, the process of obtaining prior authorization from ...
Optum has launched a pair of AI-driven prior authorization products, one designed to speed up submissions on the provider side and another to accelerate clinical reviews for payers. The ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been using prior authorization for selected Hospital Outpatient Department (OPD) services ...
Some Medicare recipients are set to experience a new “prior authorization” measure as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) trials its much-discussed “Wasteful and Inappropriate Service ...
A KFF survey published today found that people view prior authorization as the biggest challenge beyond costs when navigating ...
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 ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has implemented prior authorization requirements for certain traditional ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ask a provider what’s causing tension in their relationship with insurers and many will point to prior authorization, arguing that the practice creates administrative burdens and delays in patient ...
Nearly 53 million prior authorization requests were sent to insurers in 2024, compared with nearly 50 million in the prior year, according to KFF. Almost 8% of those requests were partially or fully ...
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