These health care hurdles can stand in the way of getting treatment your doctor says you need. Here's what to know about how ...

State laws that ban insurance prior authorization for buprenorphine-a leading medication for opioid use disorder-may not help more patients stay in treatment for the recommended minimum of 180 days, ...

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 ...

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" ...

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.

Here are four things to know. 1. Providers may use the prior authorization solution to confirm if medical procedures require preauthorization, according to a news release. 2. TransUnion Healthcare ...

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 ...

Sheldon Ekirch spends a lot of time on hold with her health insurance company. Sometimes, as the minutes tick by and her frustration mounts, Ekirch, 30, opens a meditation app on her phone. It was ...

Despite federal and state mental health parity laws – like New York’s “Timothy’s Law” – that require insurance companies to offer the same coverage for mental health problems as they do for other ...

Prior authorization requires doctors to get approval from a patient’s insurance company before they’ll cover a procedure, prescription or a service such as an imaging exam. Companies use the process ...