UnitedHealthcare plans to eliminate prior authorization requirements for 30% of services by the end of 2026.

The largest U.S. health insurer said it will eliminate approval requirements for some treatments, including select outpatient ...

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 ...

An Illinois federal district court, applying Illinois law, has held that an insurer adequately stated a claim for rescission of a professional services policy where underlying litigation revealed that ...

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz listens to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speak during a news conference to discuss health insurance ...

Health insurance company UnitedHealthcare will no longer require certain prior approvals for 30% of services. The company announced Tuesday that it will eliminate those requirements from services that ...

Aligning electronic data submission requirements for prior authorizations is one prong of the insurance industry’s commitment to reform the unpopular preapprovals.

Prior authorization forces doctors to spend 13 hours a week fighting insurers. New federal rules are changing that. Here's what you need to know.

InvestigateTV also contacted a healthcare information educator in Louisiana, Jacqueline Jones, who replicated a portion of the team’s research. Jones looked at sub-set of tests and procedures and the ...

An oft-repeated phrase dating back to the fourth century B.C. is that physicians should "first do no harm" when treating patients. In the present day, insurance companies - which report to their ...

Colin J. Haller was smart, funny, ambitious and athletic. And he was just 25 when he was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma. The Maryland native had already launched a successful internet marketing ...