For the more than 4,500 North Dakotans who will be diagnosed with cancer in 2025, medical prior authorization can delay treatment, increase stress and have a negative impact on their care, according ...

Insurance companies may require what’s known as prior authorization for medical services before they will cover it. The ...

Patients and providers say health insurers’ preapproval requirements lead to delays and denials of needed medical treatments.

Under this session's bill, prior authorization reviews and denials would have to be done by a person, not through a computer program or artificial intelligence. The bill also defines medically ...

Prior authorization might save health care dollars, but there is no reason for prior authorization to delay care. Delays are very profitable for insurers. Dealing with prior authorization and its ...

The bill would realign what has become a very broken system by introducing new transparency and clinical validity requirements to ensure patients have access to care. “Prior authorization is one of ...

Concerns that aggressive prior authorization programs place cost savings ahead of optimal care have led Delaware, Ohio and Virginia to recently join other states in passing strong patient protection ...