Skeptics note that efforts to streamline the much-despised prior authorization system have failed twice before.

Investors long trusted UnitedHealth to deliver earnings beats, despite limited transparency. Now they want answers.

Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers’ ...

A Connecticut man arrested for threatening a local health care CEO cited the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in ...

Insurers say the changes will improve access and reduce delays in treatment, but critics warn this is a voluntary pledge, not ...

A Wall Street Journal investigation found the federal government paid insurers an estimated $44 billion from 2018 through ...

Doctors say delays from requests that are eventually approved or coverage rejections can harm patients by giving a disease ...

Dozens of the nation's largest health insurance companies are pledging to speed up prior authorization approvals, which can ...

UnitedHealthcare, CVS Health's Aetna and dozens of other insurers say they plan to reduce the scope of health care claims subject to prior authorization, standardize parts of the process and expand ...