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

Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers’ practice of denying or delaying doctor-ordered care, the largest U.S.

Mangione was said to have written that he is grateful for both "conservatives" and "liberals," among other things.

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 ...