The efforts are first steps to improving the prior authorization process, but more needs to be done, experts told CNN. The commitments to standardize and streamline preapprovals, as well as provide ...

The nation’s biggest health insurance companies are poised to ease prior authorization, the process of insurers reviewing hospital admissions and medications. In a social media landscape shaped by ...

Few readers would be surprised to read that Americans are dissatisfied with their health care coverage — an outrage that the December 2024 assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson arguably ...

A coalition of health insurance companies is vowing to make changes to the prior authorization process, after years of patients and providers’ complaints over a system they say delays care and ...

There's a lot of hype around the potential for new technologies to fix the prior authorization process, but this rev cycle leader says it can only be as effective as the foundation it's built upon.

WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday that the country’s largest health insurers have promised to take steps to streamline the often-criticized prior ...

The AADA supported the legislation, which required insurers to provide decisions within 72 hours for standard requests and 24 ...

Some congressional Republicans agree with Democrats that the Trump administration’s plan to require prior approvals for some treatments in traditional Medicare would create barriers to care for older ...

In a roundtable discussion hosted by HHS, health insurers pledged six key reforms aimed at cutting red tape, accelerating care decisions, and enhancing transparency for patients and providers. Their ...