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

Now, federal officials say help may be on the way. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that ...

First, there was adjusting in Covid's wake. Then the killing of her colleague and CEO. Now threats to Medicaid funding that ...

Health Insurance Giant’s Changing Fortunes UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) is the largest U.S. health insurer by market cap and revenue, and dominates the healthcare industry through its ...

Health insurers issue millions of prior authorization denials every year, leaving many patients stuck in a convoluted appeals ...

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.

Currently, Medicare has to wait seven years after a traditional drug gets approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) before it’s eligible for Medicare price negotiations. Traditional ...

The changes to prior authorization will be phased in over the next year and a half, the companies said. In all, insurers said the changes would apply to 257 million Americans covered by private ...