Prior authorization is one of the few tools to keep health care costs in check, ensuring that treatments are medically ...
UnitedHealth Group’s pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx plans to cut up to 25% of its medication reauthorizations. OptumRx will ...
State lawmakers want to crack down on an insurance practice that requires people to wait for approval for medical treatments.
Prior authorization (PA) requirements for patients undergoing primary total hip arthroplasty did not reduce costs, but did ...
The massive pharmacy benefit manager plans to stop requiring coverage reauthorizations for roughly 80 drugs used to treat ...
Elizabeth Jones, MD, FAAD, highlights the persistent issue of insurance companies favoring expensive, newer medications over equally effective generics in dermatology, emphasizing the time-consuming ...
More older Americans are challenging their Medicare Advantage plan's denial of a service, and it's paying off.
Lawmakers are trying to reform a health insurance practice known as prior authorization, which was originally aimed at ...
Some state lawmakers are pushing to prevent insurance companies from denying necessary medical care. They hope to pass the ...
On this Plain Talk, Sen. Scott Meyer and Andy Askew from Essentia Health talk about legislation to simplify the prior ...
Optum Rx, the pharmacy benefit manager under UnitedHealth Group, is set to eliminate prior authorization requirements for ...