Rep. Dr. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) hopes his personal ordeal with prior authorizations will help inspire Congress to act.

If a person’s Medicare plan requires prior authorization, their doctor will typically take responsibility for submitting the request. A person may need to complete certain forms beforehand.

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The time-wasting, care-delaying, insurance company cost-control process known as prior authorization has gone from a rarely employed tool to discourage use of extremely pricey interventions to a form ...

The AMA is fighting to speed up prior authorization. The time-wasting, care-delaying, insurance company cost-control process known as prior authorization has gone from a rarely employed tool to ...

Along those lines, the Republican leader of the Senate aging committee on Wednesday asked Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, to explain how his agency monitors ...

State and federal actions to address substance use disorders (SUD) have begun to show progress. The provisional number of drug overdose deaths plummeted by nearly 24 percent from 2023 to 2024 and ...

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about U.S. politics ...

In an effort to boost Medicaid and stabilize the state's budget, the Maryland Board of Public Works on Wednesday approved Democratic Governor Wes Moore's plan to cut $148.3 million in state spending.

Newly minted Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, has been making his introductory rounds over the past week, first in a spiffy new infomercial-like video for his ...

Elysha Pifko, MD, from Nemours Children’s Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware, and colleagues scaled a quality improvement initiative aimed at creating clinical pathways for treatment of AOM and ...