Depending on your health insurance policy, you may have noticed that you need to get permission from your insurer before it will pay for a medication, treatment or procedure your doctor prescribes— ...

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

By simply entering an order for a procedure into an electronic health record (EHR), AHN can now receive prior authorization from payers without any other human intervention, thanks to Humata’s ...

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 ...

UnitedHealthcare has notified providers that it will eliminate prior authorizations for home health services managed by Optum Home & Community (formerly NaviHealth). The change, which applies to ...

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.

This month, a Democratic and a Republican lawmaker introduced or were drafting separate bills restricting health insurers' ability to require prior authorization for certain treatments and ...

A House Republican has proposed a simple way to end complaints about health plan prior authorization programs: eliminate health plan prior authorization programs. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., has ...

Health insurance deny-and-delay practices block access to needed care and shift costs to patients and providers, while increasing insurance company profits. Prior authorization for medical care ...

Prior authorization requirements are a hallmark of American health care — and for some, they’re long overdue for reform. In North Carolina, a bill to restrict prior authorization — or even ...