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

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 ...

State lawmakers want to crack down on an insurance practice that requires people to wait for approval for medical treatments. The practice is known as "prior authorization." Patients often have to ...

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 ...

Recently, we put together a template to help medical professionals explain a confusing process. Readers gave us very pointed feedback, so we updated it. By Ron Lieber Two months ago, I shared my tale ...

AI is increasingly being used by health insurers to automate a host of functions, including processing prior authorization requests. There is a growing need for additional mechanisms for ...

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 ...

Some medical procedures and treatments require prior authorization from your health insurance company, meaning you'll need pre-approval before you can receive care. This episode, health care reporter ...