A man with leukemia wrestles with his insurance company for access to medications to manage his excruciating pain. An oncologist is forced to delay needed treatments while arguing for health insurance ...

There is a good reason for health insurers to occasionally require prior authorization for medical treatment. If a doctor ...

Under new state regulations, doctors will no longer need to seek pre-approval from a patient’s health insurer before ...

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

Doctors are cheering the new federal rule announced Wednesday which will speed up health insurance company decisions on whether to authorize or deny medical care or treatments for millions of patients ...

Prior authorizations have long been hated by many, but insurers call them an essential tool they use to control spending.

Health insurance companies and states will have to resolve prior authorization requests more quickly under a final rule the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published Wednesday. Insurers in ...

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. He weighed 97 pounds and wasn’t expected to survive a year ...

A lot has been said about the outpouring of social media posts in the wake of the killing of insurance company CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month, with many of the posts describing horror stories ...

This statement highlights what hospitals, clinicians, and patients are experiencing on the ground — and why commercial ...