UnitedHealthcare will exempt some rural medical providers from most medical prior authorization requirements as part of a push to lower costs and improve care in rural areas. The health insurance ...

UnitedHealthcare pares back prior authorizations and speeds payments for 1,500 rural hospitals, expanding nationwide by fall 2024.

UnitedHealthcare, the nation's largest health insurer, will exempt rural physicians and hospitals from “prior authorization ...

Last summer, major payers committed to pare back onerous prior authorization policies, to the skepticism of providers. Now, ...

Payers and providers came out in support of a new rule from the CMS proposing requirements on certain health insurers in a bid to improve the prior authorization process, though provider groups say ...

Several provider groups pressed Medicare officials Tuesday to install several proposed reforms to prior authorization, including mandating an electronic process for plans to approve requests.

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While major provider organizations welcomed insurers' pledge earlier this week to reform prior authorization, these groups withheld praise without yet seeing the efforts bear fruit. Bobby Mukkamala, M ...

Prior authorization is a headache for patients and providers. It’s a time-consuming process: physician offices spend hours getting OKs from health plans to cover medications and specific medical ...

I mean, we have patients to see, folks! No one, and I mean no one, has time for that. Well, some good news for all of you in the industry secondary to part of the Biden-Harris administration’s ongoing ...