In a landmark move, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced a sweeping initiative to end the burdensome practice of insurance pre-authorization that has long frustrated patients and ...

Sometimes a health insurer will require preauthorization of a medical procedure, and as a result may deny that pre-authorization, keeping the patient from getting the care they need, at least ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with American Medical Association President Bruce Scott about how physicians and patients are burdened by insurance companies' systems of prior authorization. A lot has been ...

While the headaches and life-altering results of insurance pre-authorizations are not new to physicians or patients, lately things have been getting worse. Patients are sending more and more messages ...

Delaware's Pre-Authorization Reform Act aims to streamline the pre-authorization process for medical procedures and medications. The current process is criticized for being time-consuming, complex, ...