BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. He weighed 97 pounds and wasn’t expected to survive a year ...

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 ...

While these policies are meant to control health care costs by steering patients toward lower-priced alternatives, they may ...

"Requiring prior authorization ... is the practice of medicine," said Rep. Neal Dunn, MD ...

Major health insurers have pledged to improve the prior authorization process, which has long frustrated Americans.

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 ...

Why do I need a prior authorization for something that I am already prior-authorized to take? If my doctor says that they want me on a medication, why does my insurance have another say in that?” — ...

The New Mexico Office of Superintendent of Insurance urges all health insurance consumers to actively monitor the status of any prior authorization requests submitted on their behalf. Prior ...

Requirement for prior authorization more common for patients identifying as Black, Hispanic and with non-Medicare insurance.