Drugs were left out of a 2024 rule streamlining prior authorizations, including by making decisions electronic and requiring ...

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Prior authorization forces doctors to spend 13 hours a week fighting insurers. New federal rules are changing that. Here's ...

US health insurers are advancing toward real-time prior authorization decisions by 2027 after reducing request volumes by 11%, eliminating 6.5 million transactions in 10 months. Insurers are working ...

CMS has proposed extending its prior authorization interoperability framework to cover drugs for the first time, building on its 2024 rule that focused on medical items and services. The proposed rule ...

Care begins moving forward as soon as the visit ends. But often that is only the beginning of the story. Days or weeks later, ...

A major pain point for physicians is also one—sometimes literally—for patients. In Texas, 25% of patients say insurers have refused to cover a medicine, procedure, test or scan that a doctor ordered ...

In a recent survey, 84% of providers reported the number of medical services that require prior authorization has increased. And 62% of providers reported that they do not have the technology to ...

Have you ever walked into the pharmacy and been told that your prescription requires a prior authorization? But your healthcare professional prescribed something for you, and you brought in your ...