When Paula Chestnut needed hip replacement surgery last year, a pre-operative X-ray found irregularities in her chest. As a smoker for 40 years, Chestnut was at high risk for lung cancer. A specialist ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jesse Pines is an expert in healthcare innovation and wellness. Health insurer prior authorization has increased considerably in ...
In a landmark move, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced a sweeping initiative to end the burdensome practice of insurance pre-authorization that has long frustrated patients and ...
Sometimes a health insurer will require preauthorization of a medical procedure, and as a result may deny that pre-authorization, keeping the patient from getting the care they need, at least ...
When Paula Chestnut needed hip replacement surgery last year, a pre-operative X-ray found irregularities in her chest. As a smoker for 40 years, Chestnut was at high risk for lung cancer. A specialist ...
Federal health officials on Monday touted pledges they have received from the health insurance industry to streamline and reform the prior authorization process for Medicare Advantage, Medicaid ...
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.
When Sally Nix found out that her health insurance company wouldn’t pay for an expensive, doctor-recommended treatment to ease her neurological pain, she prepared for battle. It took years, a chain of ...
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Major health insurance companies, representing about 75% of covered Americans, are pledging to speed up the “prior authorization” process, Dr. Mehmet Oz announced Monday. “It ...
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