HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Monday that major health insurers have promised to make it easier for people to ...

Millions of Americans face delayed or denied healthcare due to insurance company bureaucracy. Mr. Funk was the managing ...

According to the plan, by 2027, the insurers will be sharing an electronic system to speed up treatment decisions and explain ...

Several dozen insurers- including insurance giants UnitedHealthcare, Elevance, Aetna, Cigna and Kaiser Permanente- announced Monday that they will make "prior authorization," a practice that many ...

Leading US health insurance organizations have agreed to reduce prior authorizations and increase transparency surrounding ...

Dozens of health insurers, including those with MA plans, pledged on Monday to reduce their use of prior authorizations, sparking excitement and skepticism.

The voluntary changes focus on prior authorization, which means insurers require approval before covering medical care, a ...

Doctors say delays from requests that are eventually approved or coverage rejections can harm patients by giving a disease ...

CMS is encouraging health insurance companies to change their prior-authorization systems. Roughly 80% of Americans will be affected by the change.

HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Mehmet Oz announced that major insurance companies have agreed to cut down and ...

UnitedHealthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield and other health insurers plan fixes to prioer authorization, a common source of ...