Many health systems and patients have struggled with prior authorization procedures. Prior authorization practices are staying in the spotlight. Health systems are looking for payers to do more to ...

More than 40 payers have voluntarily signed onto to pact to transform prior authorization processes. Here is a breakdown of the six commitments at the core of the initiative. In response to years of ...

A Medscape survey revealed some of the reasons health insurance companies’ prior authorization requirements for treatments or medications are unpopular with many physicians. Around 2 in 3 physicians ...

Ask a provider what’s causing tension in their relationship with insurers and many will point to prior authorization, arguing that the practice creates administrative burdens and delays in patient ...