Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers’ ...

Some of the nation’s largest insurance providers are pledging to make major reforms to the prior authorization process, a practice requiring insurance company sign-off for certain treatments that ...

Major health insurance providers have agreed to reduce the need for prior authorization — the requirement that patients must get approval from insurers before receiving certain treatments or risk ...

June 23 (UPI) --Major American insurers announced Monday that they have agreed to speed up and smooth out the processes involved with the reception and administration of health care by streamlining ...

Last year, HHS and dozens of health insurers announced an industry pledge to streamline and reduce prior ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has secured a pledge from insurers to streamline the companies’ practice of requiring prior authorizations before covering a claim. “Americans ...

Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said during a press conference on Monday that health insurers have "agreed to sheath their swords" and work together on ...

A woman with multiple sclerosis wanted to be able to walk up the stairs at home without losing her balance. Her doctor prescribed medicine that helped, but then approval from her insurance plan for ...

Local doctors, lawmakers, patients and the American Medical Association, say that the number of prior authorizations and ...

Killing a CEO is not the way to stop outrageous behavior by health insurance companies. So what is? The companies and agencies that buy commercial health insurance and the Medicaid, Medicare, and ...