These health care hurdles can stand in the way of getting treatment your doctor says you need. Here's what to know about how to deal with them.
About 32% of Americans say prior authorization requirements are a major burden, more than billing confusion or finding ...
California is one of 31 states that passed laws in 2025 limiting insurance companies’ use of prior authorization to approve or deny medical treatments.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The Connecticut State Medical Society is taking aim at the health insurance industry's practice of prior authorization this legislative session. Prior authorization, also known as "precertification" ...
Fighting rare bile duct cancer, Keaton Herzer used social media to overturn repeated insurance denials for lifesaving ...
The Alabama Senate has passed legislation that would impose new requirements on insurers that use AI to make prior authorization decisions, including a mandate that any decision to deny a request must ...