New Product Streamlines Prior Authorization to Improve Patient, Provider, and Payer Outcomes BOSTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / ...

States are picking up the mantle on insurance reform as they await lawmakers' next attempt to push through a bipartisan, health-industry-backed bill. Other news is on a gender-affirming care ban in ...

Prior authorization programs delay patient care, increase emotional and financial costs on patients, create administrative burdens, increase hospitalizations and cause patient harm. × This page ...

reintroduced a bill Thursday seeking to reform prior authorization requirements in ... and Medicare Advantage recipients to get the healthcare they need.” The Reducing Medically Unnecessary ...

Write to them. Tell them these bills matter. I invite you to attend upcoming talks on prior authorization reform, where health care experts and local providers will offer insight on how to fix ...

There isn’t a specific form your healthcare professional needs to fill out to request prior authorization. They can submit their request directly to Medicare by fax or mail, through the ...

While commercial insurers often use prior authorization as a way to control costs, it does the opposite for patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty, according to a study presented at the 2025 ...

“Far too often, bureaucratic hurdles in the form of prior authorization ... are all owned by major health care players, as spelled out by Healthcare Dive. Pharmacy giant CVS owns Caremark while ...

and the United States health care system. But of all the issues we navigated, none was raised more than concerns about utilization management, including prior authorization (UM/PA) in MA.

And since then, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, The Cigna Group, announced it would spend $150 million this year to reform its prior authorization process and related services for ...

The laws, spearheaded by health care providers, generally narrow when and how prior authorization can occur and create stricter timelines for the review. Legislators in several states, including ...