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 ...

Health insurer Humana has said it’s engaging in efforts to streamline the prior authorization process, in part by approving care requests as quickly as possible and reducing the administrative burdens ...

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 ...

Health plan members of AHIP and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association made news earlier this week when they announced a series of steps that a broad swath of health insurers will take to improve ...

The nation’s major health insurers are promising to scale back and improve a widely despised practice that leads to care delays and complications. UnitedHealthcare, CVS Health's Aetna and dozens of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce Japsen writes about healthcare business and policy. The biggest names in health insurance, including Cigna, CVS Health’s ...

R1 RCM has launched a new tool designed to automate and streamline the prior authorization process at scale. The tool, called ...

There are 5 steps to prior authorization when looking at it from a best practice standpoint. These steps include demographics, eligibility, determination, submission, and status retrieval. Tune into ...