Forty-eight insurers, including major players, pledged to reform prior authorization processes to improve patient care access. The initiative includes technology standardization, reducing PA ...

Massachusetts insurance regulators unveiled sweeping prior authorization reforms that would scrap pre-approval requirements ...

Surescripts®, the nation's leading health intelligence network, today announced a major expansion of its Touchless Prior Authorization technology, now reaching more than 76,000 prescribers across the ...

Have you ever walked into the pharmacy and been told that your prescription requires a prior authorization? But your healthcare professional prescribed something for you, and you brought in your ...

When you join a Medicare Advantage plan, your care sometimes requires an extra step before treatment begins. This process is called prior authorization, and it helps your insurance plan confirm that a ...

Prior authorization has long been a sticking point between payers and providers, with payers arguing that it’s necessary to control costs and ensure that care is medically necessary and providers ...

Cigna is the latest health insurer to roll back prior authorization requirements, announcing Thursday that it will no longer require the approvals for nearly 25% of medical services. Cigna plans to ...

To combat growing criticism of prior authorization delays by payers, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized a rule Wednesday that requires health plans to send prior authorization ...

More than half of providers and 43% of payers have yet to start work on the application programming interface requirements of the interoperability and prior authorization final rule, according to a ...