A sign points visitors toward the financial services department at a hospital. Contributor Brian Rezel Carr writes that an insurance practice called prior authorization leads to worse patient outcomes ...
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services put forth a new set of rules to curb private insurance's use of prior authorization. These new rules will go into effect in 2026 and will impact care for the ...
Health insurance companies and states will have to resolve prior authorization requests more quickly under a final rule the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published Wednesday. Insurers in ...
UnitedHealth Group and Cigna are revamping their prior authorization processes as new federal regulations aiming to ease the burden on providers and patients loom. UnitedHealthcare will eliminate ...
Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...