Prior authorization ensures care is both safe and aligned with the most up-to-date clinical guidelines. UnitedHealthcare is reducing prior authorization requirements with new initiatives to ease ...

“These changes are part of ongoing efforts to reduce total UnitedHealthcare prior authorization volume. They represent the next step in our ongoing efforts to modernize the prior authorization ...

4. From 2019 and 2022, UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and CVS Health each denied prior authorization requests for post-acute care at far higher rates than they did for other types of care, resulting in ...