UnitedHealthcare is launching a program next month geared toward streamlining prior authorization for qualifying providers. The UnitedHealth Group subsidiary's "gold card" program, offered across ...

The current prior authorization process in U.S. healthcare constitutes a crisis, according to Jesse Ehrenfeld, immediate past ...

UnitedHealth Group Inc. plans to cut the number of procedures and medical devices requiring prior authorization, addressing a common complaint of health providers and patients and potentially ...

New requirements will require patients on a United commercial plan to ... as well as within each healthcare provider’s practice, because now we need people to fill out these prior authorization forms, ...

UnitedHealthcare announced on Wednesday that it will reduce the use of its prior authorization process by 20% for some non-urgent surgeries and procedures. "Prior authorizations help ensure member ...

“It’s different from prior authorization because there won’t be any denials as part of this, but we don’t have a lot of details.” Related: ‘Stunning’ change to United’s colonoscopy ...

They represent the next step in our ongoing efforts to modernize the prior authorization process and simplify the health care experience for members and health care professionals.” The families ...

Under its prior authorization plan ... when colorectal cancer cases have been rising among younger adults in the United States. Some medical groups have also expressed worry about the “advance ...

Under public pressure, some insurance companies — like United Healthcare and Cigna — have said they would reduce the use of prior authorization. And in January, the Biden administration ...