Healey unveils plan to reform health care insurance 'prior authorization' requirements

Massachusetts insurance regulators unveiled sweeping prior authorization reforms that would scrap pre-approval requirements ...
Insurancenewsnet.com

Superintendent of Insurance urges consumers to understand role in prior authorization process

The New Mexico Office of Superintendent of Insurance urges all health insurance consumers to actively monitor the status of any prior authorization requests submitted on their behalf. Prior ...
Forbes

How Health Insurance ‘Prior Authorization’ Works. And How To Fix It

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jesse Pines is an expert in healthcare innovation and wellness. Health insurer prior authorization has increased considerably in ...
NPR

How prior insurance authorization affects physicians and the care they give patients

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with American Medical Association President Bruce Scott about how physicians and patients are burdened by insurance companies' systems of prior authorization. A lot has been ...
Insurancenewsnet.com

Prior authorization rules don’t apply to employer-based health insurance

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services put forth a new set of rules to curb private insurance's use of prior authorization. These new rules will go into effect in 2026 and will impact care for the ...
The New York Times

The Health Insurance Prior Authorization Memo That You Helped Write

Recently, we put together a template to help medical professionals explain a confusing process. Readers gave us very pointed feedback, so we updated it. By Ron Lieber Two months ago, I shared my tale ...
New York Magazine

‘Delay’ and ‘Deny’: The Outrage Over Prior Authorization

Editor’s Note: This story was published last year, before the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, which is drawing renewed attention to how the insurance industry denies care to patients.