Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prior authorization: For patients and doctors, insurance can be an unfair game A man with leukemia wrestles with his insurance ...

Few things frustrate patients more than the insurance paperwork that stands between them and the care they need. A new poll ...

"Medically necessary" is often a four-letter word for patients.

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. He weighed 97 pounds and wasn’t expected to survive a year ...

The Connecticut State Medical Society is taking aim at the health insurance industry's practice of prior authorization this legislative session. Prior authorization, also known as "precertification" ...

Sheldon Ekirch spends a lot of time on hold with her health insurance company. Sometimes, as the minutes tick by and her frustration mounts, Ekirch, 30, opens a meditation app on her phone. It was ...

Some of the nation’s largest insurance providers are pledging to make major reforms to the prior authorization process, a practice requiring insurance company sign-off for certain treatments that ...

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.

Here are four things to know. 1. Providers may use the prior authorization solution to confirm if medical procedures require preauthorization, according to a news release. 2. TransUnion Healthcare ...

Major health insurance providers have agreed to reduce the need for prior authorization — the requirement that patients must get approval from insurers before receiving certain treatments or risk ...

Between one-off charges, administrative fees, and office visit copays, some are trying ...