One third insured adults say prior authorization is a major burden in accessing care, highlighting insurer delays and denials as key issues.

A KFF survey published today found that people view prior authorization as the biggest challenge beyond costs when navigating the health care system. In terms of issues people viewed as a “major ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has implemented prior authorization requirements for certain traditional ...

While the cost of health care remains the dominant worry among Americans, the process of obtaining prior authorization from ...

Some Medicare recipients are set to experience a new “prior authorization” measure as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) trials its much-discussed “Wasteful and Inappropriate Service ...

Ask a provider what’s causing tension in their relationship with insurers and many will point to prior authorization, arguing that the practice creates administrative burdens and delays in patient ...

The paperwork burden of prior authorization keeps climbing, and for some ASCs, the only way through is to treat it like a daily fight. Elisa Auguste, administrator at East Setauket, N.Y.-based ...

Major health insurance providers have agreed to reduce the need for prior authorization — the requirement that patients must get approval from insurers before receiving certain treatments or risk ...

June 23 (UPI) --Major American insurers announced Monday that they have agreed to speed up and smooth out the processes involved with the reception and administration of health care by streamlining ...

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A screen displays the logo and trading information for Humana on the floor of the NYSE in New York (Reuters) -Humana said on Tuesday it would eliminate about one-third of prior authorizations for ...