Major health insurers say they have cut prior authorizations, but the AMA says physicians report that the burden of prior ...

Prior authorization was rated a major burden by 32% of insured adults and the single greatest barrier by 34%, surpassing ...

Does Medicare require prior authorization? Medicare Advantage plans often require prior authorization. But these coverage reviews are rare for original Medicare. That distinction changes in 2026. Many ...

If there’s one thing healthcare providers can agree on, it’s that prior authorization management is a heavy administrative burden and only growing heavier. Decades ago, it was created to ensure care ...

Prior authorization forces doctors to spend 13 hours a week fighting insurers. New federal rules are changing that—here's ...

Each prior auth transaction costs practices between $20 and $30 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Diane Omdahl is a Medicare expert who keeps her readers in the know. My 90-year-old uncle, a retired county employee, has had a ...

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 ...

The need to fix healthcare’s antiquated prior authorization (PA) process remains a hot-button issue in the industry, garnering policy attention and spurring the development of myriad technology ...

For the first time, more Medicare enrollees received their Medicare benefits through a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan last year than through Traditional Medicare. We saw first-hand at the Center for ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Last December, a young patient was admitted to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, after several medications had failed to quell the child’s ...

Prior authorization companies are moving into ambient listening, while ambient listening companies are expanding into prior authorization — a trend underscored by yet another partnership bridging the ...