Major insurers say they’ll ease up on the prior-authorization practice that can delay necessary care for patients.

Prior authorization refers to when medical providers have to get approval from insurers before performing a service. Patients ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama says it's reforms will provide a simpler, more efficient system for patients and doctors.

"Prior authorization is often denied because a provider has not provided all of the necessary information," Moran told ...

Some of the nation's health insurers say they're taking steps to speed the process by which doctors approve medical care.

U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met with major health insurers on Monday, extracting pledges that they will take ...

Federal health officials on Monday touted pledges they have received from the health insurance industry to streamline and ...

Major American insurers announced Monday that they have agreed to speed up and smooth out the processes involved with the ...

The largest U.S. insurers agreed Monday to streamline their often cumbersome preapproval system. Here are five takeaways.

More than 50 insurers have pledged to streamline and simplify the prior authorization process through six new commitments.