State lawmakers want to crack down on an insurance practice that requires people to wait for approval for medical treatments.

Some state lawmakers are pushing to prevent insurance companies from denying necessary medical care. They hope to pass the ...

Prior authorization (PA) requirements for patients undergoing primary total hip arthroplasty did not reduce costs, but did ...

These changes are part of ongoing efforts to reduce total UnitedHealthcare prior authorization volume," the company said.

For the more than 4,500 North Dakotans who will be diagnosed with cancer in 2025, medical prior authorization can delay ...

Patients who required prior authorization had increased costs in the year prior to TKA. Prior authorization was not effective in determining who was a good surgical candidate, researchers said.

The American Medical Association (AMA) recently released its 2024 AMA Prior Authorization Physician Survey, providing insight ...

In fact, in a 2023 survey by the American Medical Association, 93% of physicians surveyed said this prior authorization process had delayed their patients' treatments, 78% believed delays due to ...

For many patients battling cancer, time can mean everything. But due to insurance rules around prior authorization, some patients run out of time. That is a problem that is being looked at in the ...

While commercial insurers often use prior authorization as a way to control costs, it does the opposite for patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty, according to a study presented at the 2025 ...

Last year, the company was recognized with a 2024 KLAS Points of Light Award for its collaborative work to develop an automated prior authorization process leveraging the Da Vinci Burden Reduction ...