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‘Delay’ and ‘Deny’: Even Health Insurance Companies Agree Prior Authorization Process Is Broken

California is one of 31 states that passed laws in 2025 limiting insurance companies’ use of prior authorization to approve ...

Prior authorization nightmare leaves a woman without medication

Dana Kelso Spradling says she's dealing with an insurance nightmare, after the medication she had already received a prior ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Prior Authorization Ranked Top Barrier to Health Care Access After Cost

While the cost of health care remains the dominant worry among Americans, the process of obtaining prior authorization from ...

Prior authorization could stand between you and your doctor’s care and here's what it really means, how delays happen and what do if you’re denied

"Medically necessary" is often a four-letter word for patients.

Health insurance hell: Why do I need a prior authorization?

Some medical procedures and treatments require prior authorization from your health insurance company, meaning you'll need pre-approval before you can receive care. This episode, health care reporter ...
Yahoo

For patients and doctors, insurance prior authorization can be a dangerous game | Opinion

A man with leukemia wrestles with his insurance company for access to medications to manage his excruciating pain. An oncologist is forced to delay needed treatments while arguing for health insurance ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Rethinking Prior Authorization: Bridging Clinical Needs and Administrative Burdens

Prior authorization (PA) is a widely used insurance mechanism intended to ensure cost-effective, evidence-based care. However, in practice, it often imposes significant administrative and clinical ...
Newsday

Prior authorization from insurance companies often delays treatment for patients

As doctors, we do our best to spend time with patients and make medical decisions that are best for their health. These days, insurance companies are making it increasingly difficult to do both. They ...
CNN

States target health insurers’ ‘prior authorization’ red tape

Christopher Marks noticed an immediate improvement when his doctor prescribed him the Type 2 diabetes medication Mounjaro last year. The 40-year-old truck driver from Kansas City, Missouri, said his ...
UPI

'Prior authorization' insurance requirements may harm patients, doctors say

MONDAY, March 19, 2018 -- The scenario may sound familiar: Your doctor sends your prescription electronically to the pharmacy, and you go to pick it up. Only you can't, because the insurance company ...
The Baltimore Sun

Are prior authorization insurance requirements killing patients?

Colin J. Haller was smart, funny, ambitious and athletic. And he was just 25 when he was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma. The Maryland native had already launched a successful internet marketing ...
WNDU

Permission to Practice: Doctors, patients say insurance prior-authorizations put profits over people

InvestigateTV also contacted a healthcare information educator in Louisiana, Jacqueline Jones, who replicated a portion of the team’s research. Jones looked at sub-set of tests and procedures and the ...