One of the biggest frustrations in getting medical care — prior authorization from insurance companies — might get easier soon. Some of America’s biggest health insurance companies are now pledging to ...

A man with leukemia wrestles with his insurance company for access to medications to manage his excruciating pain. An oncologist is forced to delay needed treatments while arguing for health insurance ...

Many people, at one time or another, have needed to get approval from their insurance company before receiving certain treatments, medications, or procedures to ensure they’re covered. Prior ...

Sheldon Ekirch spends a lot of time on hold with her health insurance company. Sometimes, as the minutes tick by and her frustration mounts, Ekirch, 30, opens a meditation app on her phone. It was ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Major health insurance companies, representing about 75% of covered Americans, are pledging to speed up the “prior authorization” process, Dr. Mehmet Oz announced Monday. “It ...

The New Mexico Office of Superintendent of Insurance urges all health insurance consumers to actively monitor the status of any prior authorization requests submitted on their behalf. Prior ...

Some of the nation’s largest insurance providers are pledging to make major reforms to the prior authorization process, a practice requiring insurance company sign-off for certain treatments that ...

When Sally Nix found out that her health insurance company wouldn’t pay for an expensive, doctor-recommended treatment to ease her neurological pain, she prepared for battle. It took years, a chain of ...