CLEVELAND — Nearly all health insurers use "prior authorization requirements," meaning your health provider has to prove why you need what they're prescribing to your health insurer. Health insurers ...
Doctors say getting procedures pre-authorized by insurance can lead to delays and sometimes deny patients needed care. A new law in New Hampshire aims to reform the process. Medical treatments often ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — A solution to a long-running problem? Or a cure that’s worse than the disease? Depends on who you ask. Insurance pre-authorization — or “utilization management,” as the ...
WASHINGTON — When Amanda Boley suffered cardiac arrest, she needed life-saving emergency transport to the nearest trauma center. Six weeks later, while still recovering, she received a $65,000 bill ...
With the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO sparking a debate on insurance companies denying treatment, a state lawmaker says it is time for New Jersey to give doctors the final say over which tests ...
Canton-area residents report care delays because of prior authorizations and denials. The Ohio State Medical Association has recognized physicians' growing discontent with third-party administrative ...
When Paula Chestnut needed hip replacement surgery last year, a pre-operative X-ray found irregularities in her chest. As a smoker for 40 years, Chestnut was at high risk for lung cancer. A specialist ...
A hospital that offers free insurance pre-authorization services to doctors and patients who need imaging tests "could potentially" be doing so in violation of federal anti-kickback statutes, says an ...
The aftermath of the Dec. 4 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — a moment captured on video in which a gunman shot the father of two in the back on a Manhattan street — provoked an ...
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Matia Mobility, a leading provider of innovative mobility solutions, today announced the launch of a pioneering online portal for the submission of ...
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