Major health insurers are advancing efforts to standardize prior authorization requirements as part of an effort to simplify ...

The approach will be used for medical services that are commonly subject to prior authorization, such as orthopedic surgeries ...

UnitedHealthcare, the nation's largest health insurer, will exempt rural physicians and hospitals from “prior authorization ...

UnitedHealthcare pares back prior authorizations and speeds payments for 1,500 rural hospitals, expanding nationwide by fall 2024.

New legislation aims to make post-acute care services more accessible and streamline prior authorization approval in Medicare ...

Payers and providers came out in support of a new rule from the CMS proposing requirements on certain health insurers in a bid to improve the prior authorization process, though provider groups say ...

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Several provider groups pressed Medicare officials Tuesday to install several proposed reforms to prior authorization, including mandating an electronic process for plans to approve requests.

I mean, we have patients to see, folks! No one, and I mean no one, has time for that. Well, some good news for all of you in the industry secondary to part of the Biden-Harris administration’s ongoing ...

UnitedHealthcare, the largest private payer in the U.S., plans to eliminate almost 20% of its current prior authorizations starting this summer, the company announced Wednesday. The decision, which ...

Providers, health plans and vendors represented by the nonprofit organization CAQH voted to set a two-day limit on prior authorization requests, the group said Feb. 4. Prior authorization comes at a ...