California is one of 31 states that passed laws in 2025 limiting insurance companies’ use of prior authorization to approve ...

Prior authorization (PA) is a widely used insurance mechanism intended to ensure cost-effective, evidence-based care. However, in practice, it often imposes significant administrative and clinical ...

Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) denied one out of eight prior authorization requests in 2019, according to a new report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG). The OIG review included ...

While the cost of health care remains the dominant worry among Americans, the process of obtaining prior authorization from ...

The new CMS regulations on prior authorization have been heralded as a big step forward in reducing administrative burdens on physicians, but some people think it doesn't go far enough. The CMS ...

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 ...

Many private health insurers require medical providers to get approval before administering treatment, sometimes resulting in delayed or denied care for patients. Now, that tactic, known as prior ...

This was a question that Chris Severn, CEO of Turquoise Health, a price transparency company, asked of Don Antonucci, CEO of Providence Health Plan at a fireside chat in Las Vegas. The chat was part ...

It's no secret that burnout is a struggle across the healthcare industry, and the complex, time-consuming prior authorization process is one contributor. In fact, the U.S. Surgeon General addressed ...

-- Aetna provided an update on its efforts to streamline the healthcare experience on Thursday, one year to the day after the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth’s top insurance executive sparked a wave of ...

Physicians and other medical providers will tell you that prior authorization is out of control and has transcended any legitimate rationale.

When Paula Chestnut needed hip replacement surgery last year, a pre-operative X-ray found irregularities in her chest. As a smoker for 40 years, Chestnut was at high risk for lung cancer. A specialist ...