State laws that ban insurance prior authorization for buprenorphine—a leading medication for opioid use disorder—may not help more patients stay in treatment for the recommended minimum of 180 days, ...

Some Medicare recipients are set to experience a new “prior authorization” measure as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) trials its much-discussed “Wasteful and Inappropriate Service ...

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 ...

Does Medicare require prior authorization? Medicare Advantage plans often require prior authorization. But these coverage reviews are rare for original Medicare. That distinction changes in 2026. Many ...

Submit an appeal, even if you’re worried you’ll lose. Yaver said that, based on the research set to be published in her book, Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States ...

Have you ever walked into the pharmacy and been told that your prescription requires a prior authorization? But your healthcare professional prescribed something for you, and you brought in your ...

June 23 (UPI) --Major American insurers announced Monday that they have agreed to speed up and smooth out the processes involved with the reception and administration of health care by streamlining ...

Prior authorization has long been a sticking point between payers and providers, with payers arguing that it’s necessary to control costs and ensure that care is medically necessary and providers ...

Prior authorization requires doctors to get approval from a patient’s insurance company before they’ll cover a procedure, prescription or a service such as an imaging exam. Companies use the process ...

Aetna provided an update on its efforts to streamline the healthcare experience on Thursday, one year to the day after the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth’s top insurance executive sparked a wave of ...

Highmark was among more than 50 health insurers who pledged Monday to speed up and slim down prior authorization, the process through which patients and their doctors must seek insurance approval for ...

There is a good reason for health insurers to occasionally require prior authorization for medical treatment. If a doctor prescribes an unusual, experimental, or expensive medication or procedure, the ...