Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) denied one out of eight prior authorization requests in 2019, according to a new report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG). The OIG review included ...

Last summer, the Trump administration announced a voluntary pledge by health insurers to reform prior authorization, but patient advocates and medical providers remain skeptical.

Prior authorization has been a bone of contention between payers and providers for some time now. Payers argue that it helps avoid unnecessary care and reduces costs, while providers say it creates ...

Many private health insurers require medical providers to get approval before administering treatment, sometimes resulting in delayed or denied care for patients. Now, that tactic, known as prior ...

Use of prior authorization in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program continues to increase, according to a report from KFF. More than 46 million prior authorization requests were submitted to Medicare ...

If there’s one thing healthcare providers can agree on, it’s that prior authorization management is a heavy administrative burden and only growing heavier. Decades ago, it was created to ensure care ...

The need to fix healthcare’s antiquated prior authorization (PA) process remains a hot-button issue in the industry, garnering policy attention and spurring the development of myriad technology ...

The push toward healthcare interoperability and electronic prior authorization is meant to ultimately benefit patients and providers. However, providers will have to navigate these changes and ...

Health insurers are cautioning that prior authorization reforms could worsen health care cost increases, but a stream of ...

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This article originally appeared on Undark. Last December, a young patient was admitted to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, after several medications had failed to quell the child’s ...

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 ...